Tag: Apartments
First look: the Studio Gang apartments at Hyde Park’s Del Prado
If you've watched the earlier videos on the restoration of the exterior and grand public spaces at the Del Prado in Hyde Park, you may be shocked [...]
Will the new Lakeshore East apartment tower block Aqua’s views?
If you want to stay current on news about Chicago high-rise developments, the SkyscraperCity High-rise Development News forum is a must-visit. Th [...]
Quote of the day – more hate for homeownership
Sorry to disappoint, but we're not referring to CribChatter, Chicago's very own hostel of hate for homeownership – and Jews, gays, McMansion owners an [...]
YoChicago’s new apartment high-rise at-a-glance list and map
View New downtown Chicago apartment high-rises in a larger map
We've just put in place the skeletal framework for making it easy for you to track [...]
Add $5K a month if you want it furnished at 800 North Michigan
The priciest new rental to hit the downtown market this week will set you back $16,900 a month. Make that $21,900 if you want it furnished.
The 3- [...]
Rent a million-dollar Northfield townhome for $4,000 a month
Unit 1A at 1884 Old Willow Rd in Northfield has been in the MLS for 1,100 days as of today and is currently in contract pending status. Its most r [...]
Rental confusion of the day, domu edition
A duplex-up at 1623 W Barry Ave is listed in the MLS at $2,500 a month. Coldwell Banker's Jennifer Witt has the listing.
domu spotlighted the p [...]
A vintage surprise in Lakeview East
It's no secret that YoChicago loves real estate video, so we were pleased when Lakeview Associates sent along a link to their first video effort.
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The view from Hyde Park’s Del Prado
The sun made a brief appearance just as I was wrapping up a sponsored video tour of the Del Prado apartments, which are currently undergoing renov [...]
Rental non-deal of the day – 1237 West
1237 West Fullerton is privately-operated housing for up to 590 DePaul University students, and it's currently offering a month's free rent.
Th [...]
Does Chicago Apartment Finders post lying reviews?
It's bedbug vs bedbug out there in apartment rental service reviews.
Most of the rental services (bedbugs) limit themselves to back-of-the-hand sl [...]
How many rental service owners have criminal records?
That question occurred to me after coming across two of them within the past week.
I found the first while researching a rental service whose "bedb [...]
Lake View apartments west of Halsted, listed and mapped
View Lake View apartments, West of Halsted St in a larger map
Our map of Lake View apartments west of Halsted St has just been published, along wit [...]
Lake View apartments listed and mapped
View Lake View apartments, East of Halsted St in a larger map
Yesterday we published our comprehensive at-a-glance list of Lake View apartments, and [...]
YoChicago’s Lake View apartments at-a-glance list
We've just published what we believe to be the most comprehensive list of Lake View apartments ever made available online.
The Lake View at-a-g [...]
Crescent Heights flips Cityfront Place for large gain
Crain's Chicago Business is reporting (subscription required) that Miami-based Crescent Heights has agreed to sell the 39-story, 480-unit Cityfron [...]
Lincoln Park apartments listed and mapped
View Lincoln Park apartments for rent in a larger map
We're determined to make apartment-hunting in Chicago a faster, easier and far more informed [...]
The biggest apartment search mistakes – Number 2, starting too late
In the first post in this series, we suggested that failure to focus on your ideal and affordable location is the biggest mistake you can make whe [...]
The biggest apartment search mistakes – Number 1, failure to focus
The biggest mistake that Chicago apartment seekers make is failing to focus their search on one or two relatively small areas where they'd genuine [...]
Updating YoChicago’s rental service do-not-call list
As a rough guesstimate, the rental services we call bedbugs are adding more than 10,000 apartment ads a day – many of them bait-and-switch come-on [...]