Tag: Coldwell Banker
The enduring strength of Lincoln Park
Jenny Ames doesn't strike me as the kind of person who likes to get into arguments, but she will use her blog to set the record straight when necess [...]
The Gold Coast and Streeterville markets: What's hot, and what's not
Before we got onto the topic of North Side neighborhoods, Coldwell Banker agent Jenny Ames and I discussed the Gold Coast and Streeterville markets, [...]
Five easy pieces: Gale Goldstick of Coldwell Banker
In an effort to get the most substantive responses from our interviewees, we've honed the five questions of our ongoing "five easy pieces" feature. [...]
Comparing prices across neighborhoods in the North Side residential market
It's not enough to compare one home in Roscoe Village to all the others in the neighborhood. As buyers on the North Side focus more on price point, [...]
Lincoln Park 2520, buyer trust, and the viability of new high-rises
Among the many proposed high-rises that never made it past pre-sales, only the truly unique products -- ones that offer quality homes in highly desi [...]
Trump resales, above and below ground
As we saw yesterday in my video tour with Tricia Fox, Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago is just one example of a new high-rise with lots [...]
Live and Play in Chicago: the creation and management of a Realtor's blog
Jenny Ames' Live and Play in Chicago is one of the best Realtor blogs in the city today. For more than a year, Jenny has posted her thoughts and obs [...]
Construction checkup: Walton on the Park
Up and up and up Walton on the Park goes...where it stops, somebody knows! I'll hazard a guess and say it has another three stories left in it, bas [...]
Food drives and "unheard-of" prices at Amberley Woods in Lake Forest
Amberley Woods hosted a food drive for the food pantries of Lake County on Thursday, so Joe Zekas took the opportunity to talk to those closely invo [...]
Five easy pieces with Jenny Ames
To break the ice on our hour-long interview at Coldwell Banker's Hancock Center office, I asked Realtor Jenny Ames to run the "five easy pieces" gau [...]
The nearly news: high, low, and in-between in Boys Town
As Bob Darrow has already told us, home prices in and around Boys Town stretch from the mid-$100s for small studio condos up into the seven figures fo [...]
Floor plan faceoff: 1720 South Michigan and 1600 Museum Park
When you've got plenty of room, it's easy making your living space work well for you. When that space is limited, it takes skill to organize and si [...]
Shark bites: taking hefty chomps out of three Gold Coast condos
Every week we scan Matt Garrison's CondoShark.com to check out the biggest price cuts on homes in Chicago’s most popular neighborhoods. Here are jus [...]
Downtown shark attack! Price cuts in River North, South Loop, and West Loop
Matt Garrison of Coldwell Banker’s Matt Garrison Group recently launched CondoShark.com, which collects the details of big price cuts on homes in Ch [...]