6/10/10
I know what you’re thinking, hockey fans: “What do we do for the next four months?” Maybe you’ve heard tales of a little place...
5/28/10
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...
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...
4/23/10
A Lake Shore Drive address in the Gold Coast rarely comes cheap (unless you’re buying at auction this weekend, perhaps), but it’s especially pricey...
4/2/10
You know that Matt Garrison tracks big price reductions on condos and single-family homes at CondoShark.com. But did you know he also keeps an...
3/26/10
By mid-2009, Max knew his search for distressed properties wasn’t going as planned. “I was working with an agent for a while and wasn’t...
3/19/10
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...
3/12/10
Matt Garrison‘s ShoreShark.com tracks price reductions, short sales, and foreclosures in eight northern suburbs: Deerfield, Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Kenilworth, Lake Forest, Wilmette, and...
3/5/10
View CondoShark.com: Deals on Lake Shore Drive in a larger map This afternoon I plotted out all of the top Lake Shore Drive price...
2/26/10
It’s easy to keep up with price reductions by visiting CondoShark.com regularly, but it isn’t a comprehensive view of the market. For that reason,...
2/19/10
Matt Garrison’s CondoShark.com tracks more than discounts on downtown condos — it also keeps tabs on the city’s single-family home market. If you know...
2/12/10
Due to their neighborhoods’ old industrial and warehousing natures, many of the discounted homes, short sales, and foreclosures in River North, the West Loop,...
2/5/10
CondoShark.com tracks price cuts on homes in seven Chicago neighborhoods: Bucktown, Gold Coast, Lake View, Lincoln Park, River North, South Loop, and West Loop....
2/1/10
Matt Garrison’s CondoShark.com tracks the biggest discounts on homes in seven Chicago neighborhoods and eight suburbs. This morning I browsed the suburban listings at...
1/22/10
Unit #2414 at Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago may be one of the high-rise’s smaller spaces, but when it comes to short sale...
1/15/10
Four of the top ten homes on CondoShark.com‘s list of foreclosures and short sales in Lincoln Park are located inside the 16-story, 120-unit 2000...
1/8/10
CondoShark slipped into Diversey Harbor the other day with plans to grab a bite at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Before he got there, however,...
1/4/10
The CondoShark normally checks in on Fridays, but we gave him some time off for the New Year. He’s back to the grind today...
12/29/09
If the average rate of a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rises to 6 percent by the end of 2010, how will the market react? The...
12/18/09
When you sink underwater, the ShoreShark’s sure to get you! Earlier this week, we pulled a few quotes from a Bloomberg article about the...