9/5/11
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...
3/17/11
American Invsco needed to sell 36 units quickly in order to requalify for major financing programs at 200 North Dearborn in the Loop. How...
3/9/11
Mark Boyer at Curbed has gotten a kick out of the number of church conversions going on around town, and recently published a post...
12/17/10
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...
11/22/10
The latest word from 433 Briar in Lake View is “so far, so good.” Since an affiliate of Belgravia Group brought 17 two- and...
10/7/10
Last week project manager Zev Salomon talked to Joe Zekas about the irreplaceable vintage aspects of 433 Briar and the appeal of its Lake...
9/4/10
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...
8/23/10
Here at Yo HQ we have file cabinets filled with old promotional materials and press releases about hundreds of Chicago developments. Here’s some info...
8/10/10
The Flats on LaSalle condo conversion at 1140 N LaSalle St — a project best known for its tiny, inexpensive studios and one-bedrooms —...
8/5/10
How much does a view matter at Park Monroe (the big gray box near the center of the pic at right)? Quite a bit,...
6/9/10
Are you sitting down? The first home you see in this video from Pearson on the Park — a completely remodeled two-bedroom / one-bath...
6/1/10
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 the Deming...
5/28/10
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...
5/17/10
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...
5/13/10
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. This...
5/7/10
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-tax...
5/3/10
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...
4/26/10
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...
4/23/10
I suppose I assumed 200 North Dearborn had received approval for FHA-backed mortgages sometime in the past year or two. Guess not — according...
4/21/10
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,...