Tag: Condo conversions
Ten years later, buyers under water at Uptown’s Polo Tower
We first mentioned Polo Tower, a 189-unit high-rise condo conversion at 4180 N Marine Dr in Uptown, in October of 2001, in the print edition of ou [...]
Prices slashed at 200 North Dearborn
American Invsco needed to sell 36 units quickly in order to requalify for major financing programs at 200 North Dearborn in the Loop.
How to a [...]
From church to condo in Little Italy
Mark Boyer at Curbed has gotten a kick out of the number of church conversions going on around town, and recently published a post about one at 10 [...]
A restored two-bedroom, steps from Lincoln Park, priced in the $340s
The latest restored home at 433 Briar to hit the MLS is unit 3C, a 1,600 square-foot two-bedroom / 2.5-bath priced at $349,900, or $219 a square f [...]
Sales update: Five sales at 433 Briar since new discount rollout
The latest word from 433 Briar in Lake View is "so far, so good." Since an affiliate of Belgravia Group brought 17 two- and three-bedrooms back to th [...]
A gracious, spacious three-bedroom condo at 433 Briar in Lake View
Last week project manager Zev Salomon talked to Joe Zekas about the irreplaceable vintage aspects of 433 Briar and the appeal of its Lake View surro [...]
Daley to propose new rental, condo ordinances
The City of Chicago has had a little-known and largely unenforced condo conversion ordinance (pdf) on its books for more than 30 years.
Now that the [...]
The Transportation Building in Printers Row, past and present
Here at Yo HQ we have file cabinets filled with old promotional materials and press releases about hundreds of Chicago developments. Here's some inf [...]
Crain's: Flats on LaSalle in foreclosure
The Flats on LaSalle condo conversion at 1140 N LaSalle St -- a project best known for its tiny, inexpensive studios and one-bedrooms -- faces a $7. [...]
The four sides of Park Monroe
How much does a view matter at Park Monroe (the big gray box near the center of the pic at right)? Quite a bit, especially when it comes to pricing.
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Two bedrooms in the heart of Streeterville for under $200,000 at Pearson on the Park
Are you sitting down? The first home you see in this video from Pearson on the Park -- a completely remodeled two-bedroom / one-bath with all the ex [...]
Newly rehabbed two-bedrooms available with special financing in Belmont Cragin
Buyers can take advantage of Fresh Horizon Realty's low down-payment mortgage programs with no PMI when purchasing a newly rehabbed two-bedroom at t [...]
Big, small, cheap, or pricey: The long and the short of Metropolitan Tower
Equity's sales team at Metropolitan Tower, 310 S Michigan Ave, was one of the success stories of 1Q 2010, having sold 23 of the tower's newly renovate [...]
From sandboxes to treehouses: Ranquist Development's latest endeavor in Bucktown
If the new banner ads on Division Street's benches are any indication, Ranquist Development is ready to get the word out about its newest condo proj [...]
Homes with history in the "new" Playboy building
Our Streeterville correspondent Francesca Rose checked in yesterday with a post topic in mind: the 84-year-old high-rise at 680 N Lake Shore Dr.
Thi [...]
Shark bites: "Devastation" in West Rogers Park's condo conversions
Yesterday afternoon I received an e-mail from CondoShark.com's Matt Garrison focusing on two topics: the types of buyers who are active in the post- [...]
Ted's take on Pearson on the Park
Earlier this year a group of investors bought up the remaining inventory at the converted Pearson on the Park high-rise at 222 E Pearson St in Stree [...]
1400 Lake Shore Drive auction brings in almost $3.5 million with 20 sales
I couldn't make it to yesterday's 1400 Lake Shore Drive auction, but an intrepid Yo reader had my back.
Jameson and Fine & Co had planned to auction [...]
200 North Dearborn gets FHA approval
I suppose I assumed 200 North Dearborn had received approval for FHA-backed mortgages sometime in the past year or two. Guess not -- according to HUD, [...]
The mainstreaming of condo auctions
We've seen a number of large-scale auctions at new developments over the past two years -- Vetro, Michigan Avenue Tower II, Motor Row Lofts, Prairie [...]