Tag: Downtown Loop
The quality of which cannot be purchased in Chicago
A new listing on the 67th floor at Trump Tower boasts that:
New York designers spared no expense in customizing this turn-key luxury dwelling - [...]
Where the sun shines in the heart of River North
Greg Eldridge loves Chicago, and has a deep understanding of the advantages of Superior 110's River North location.
Eldridge, a real estate age [...]
Oakwood 200 Squared is a Walker’s Paradise
The popular WalkScore.com website gives Oakwood 200 Squared's location, 210 N Wells St in Chicago's Loop, a 98 of 100 Walk Score* rating – labelin [...]
A wide one-bedroom in a prime Gold Coast location
For sheer visual and people-watching spectacle it doesn't get any better in Chicago than the intersection of State and Rush on a sunny day.
Th [...]
Wicker Park condo built in 1895 survived Chicago fire
The ad copy at Craigslist for a Wicker Park for sale by owner condo contains these amusing assertions:
Sun Filled Vintage Condo In Historical L [...]
The best 2-bedroom, 2-bath condo value in Chicago
The headline is how Scott Hoskins of CMK describes the high-style 2-bedroom, 2-bath unit at 235 Van Buren that we tour in this sponsored video.
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It’s always sunny at River North’s “blue building”
"When you walk out of the building, it's sunny. In 50-story neighborhoods you walk out of a building and it's like you're in a canyon. You get a l [...]
A rare 4-bedroom townhome for rent in River North
The 400 block of Superior in River North is mansion row, and also home to the City Club townhomes with its beautifully landscaped parkways. It's a [...]
You can see for miles from this Hancock Center master bath
I've seen Chicago's lakefront and skyline from 1,000s of vantage points over the years, and visited three great ones yesterday.
It's not of [...]
The views from 1300 North Lake Shore Drive
It was an ideal day today, with clear skies and a temperature in the 70s. The middle of my day took me to three great vantage points for viewing C [...]
Superior 110 drops prices on remaining units
"We're down to our last seven units," reported Greg Eldridge when I visited Superior 110, the River North high-rise that's known locally as "the b [...]
A private rooftop terrace overlooking Grant Park
You don't have to look very hard to find buildings that offer panoramic views of Grant Park, Millennium Park and the Museum Campus – they're abund [...]
Are Zillow’s Rent Zestimates worthless?
What’s a Rent Zestimate? According to Zillow:
A Rent Zestimate is Zillow’s estimated monthly rental price, computed using a proprietary formula. It [...]
The Coast will cost Aqua, Tides, Shoreham, Aon and 340 some views
The Coast will definitely not be clear.
The new 499-unit 45-story rental tower that's coming out of the ground at 345 E Wacker Dr as part [...]
MLS-listed downtown rentals jumped nearly 20% in September
On the first Friday of September there were 734 homes and condos listed for rent in the MLS in the downtown ZIP codes that we track. As of Septemb [...]
An 18-room rooftop bungalow on Lake Shore Drive
A number of Chicago's most prestigious residential buildings maintain a low public profile, garner little attention, and prefer their relative obs [...]
Live on Chicago’s highest residential floor
A penthouse unit on the 92nd floor of the John Hancock Center has been on the market for about 30 days, priced at $959,000. It's being sold as 1,7 [...]
Price chops of over $800K on ParkView penthouse
In April of last year Unit 4701 at the ParkView Condominium, 505 N McClurg Ct in Streeterville, was listed at $1,681,500. It was reduced to $1.3M [...]
Is The Clare at Water Tower offering traditional rentals?
Just a day after Crain's reported that The Clare at Water Tower had defaulted on $229 million in debt, twenty-two of its apartments were listed fo [...]
The scene at a West Loop broker’s open house
Broker's open houses are one of the key ways in which real estate brokers learn about new offerings. The key ingredient to hosting a successful op [...]