Tag: Coldwell Banker
Shark bites: Four-bedroom duplexes available for under $300K in Irving Park
Buyers are coming around on a new-construction six-flat at 3500 W Irving Park Rd on the Irving Park / Albany Park border, where the Matt Garrison [...]
The South Loop's $10,000 rental
If the $10,000-a-month price tag for a South Loop rental left you gobsmacked, you're not alone. I see those rates in the Gold Coast and in high-prof [...]
What it takes to buy a beachfront home on the North Shore
Maureen Mohling, one of our local correspondents for Winnetka, has a flair for finding the right word or phrase to summarize a complex topic. "Patie [...]
The first passive solar house in America
The Henry P. Glass house in Northfield is, by some accounts, the first passive solar house in America.
Glass was trained as an architect in Austria [...]
Coldwell Banker looks beyond tax credit deadline with new closing credit incentive
"Approaching" or "looming" aren't sufficient anymore -- the deadline for the federal home buyer tax credits is all but here, and that has a lot of peo [...]
A Tony Grunsfeld home in Highland Park: not unfriendly, just private
Ernest Alton "Tony" Grunsfeld III has designed dozens of homes along the bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan. Most are in the distinctively modern idio [...]
Shark bites: What's driving 1400 Lake Shore Drive's auction?
The size and pace of price reductions among 1400 Lake Shore Drive's resales haven't made things any easier for RDM Development, which still has about [...]
Living inside the Mallinckrodt College chapel
One of the most distinctive living spaces at Mallinckrodt in the Park is a converted chapel that maintains its old pillars, archways, and high ceili [...]
A Mallinckrodt condo with the feel of a home
The model condo at Wilmette's Mallinckrodt in the Park senior living development is a two-bedroom unit with 1,900 square feet. As Joe Zekas notes mo [...]
From college to condos: A trip to Mallinckrodt in the Park in Wilmette
The old Mallinckrodt College building at 1041 Ridge Rd has been a fixture in Wilmette and the North Shore for almost a century. The 180,000 square-f [...]
Sales update: Another round of price cuts at 1600 Museum Park
Almost all of the condos still for sale at The Enterprise Companies' 1600 Museum Park, 1629 S Prairie Ave in the South Loop, saw some kind of price [...]
Everyone's doing the real estate shuffle!
"Musical Chairs" was the name of the game this week. For all of you industry trainspotters out there, here are a couple news nuggets about the latest [...]
Shark bites: Tasty treats near Lincoln Park's North Pond
CondoShark slipped into Diversey Harbor the other day with plans to grab a bite at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Before he got there, however, the unmistaka [...]
Yo's year: Top videos from YouTube
Here are a few of the most-viewed videos added to the YoChicago YouTube channel over the past year.
A city within a city: Lakeshore East from the Chi [...]
South Loop status: Some homes close at Museum Park Place South, but most linger
I guess Museum Park Place South isn't so quiet after all. Since October, 61 condos have closed at the tower, located at 1901 S Calumet Ave in the So [...]
Renovated penthouse homes at 1400 Lake Shore Drive available at discount
After reading yesterday's post about Jameson Real Estate's new marketing efforts at 1400 Lake Shore Drive, Coldwell Banker agent Matt Garrison e-mail [...]
Closings begin at One Museum Park West
The Museum Park sales staff notified me this afternoon that a few homes closed last week at One Museum Park West, 1201 S Prairie Ave, and more will [...]
Parsing two brokerages' "top spot" claims
Our friend Bob Darrow has noticed ads from both Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage and @properties declaring their superiority in the Chicago mar [...]
Query quintet: Five questions on the market with Coldwell Banker agent Danielle Olsen
Another stop I made in my West Loop open house tour yesterday was at 700 W Van Buren St, Unit #1102. The listing agent, Danielle Olsen of Coldwell B [...]
Finding new developments in Bronzeville and North Kenwood
Earlier this week, Clarence Thompson of Coldwell Banker took me around Bronzeville in Chicago's South Side, with a short visit to a street in North [...]