Tag: Downtown Loop
More cuts for Mondial
Prices have dropped once more at Mondial, 910 W Huron St, albeit by modest amounts compared to what we saw last year.
Over the summer, @properties [...]
The drawing board: The next wave of downtown towers
If you really want to stay on top of building proposals, you should spend more time at the SkyscraperPage forum, where architecture buffs routinely un [...]
Revised plans for The Gateway on display tonight
One South Halsted was just one of several big proposals announced for the West Loop in 2009 and 2010. Another, The Gateway, surfaced early last ye [...]
Checking in: 1919 West Crystal finds its buyers
A couple weeks ago, Eric predicted a quick sale for a decked-out single-family at Edgebrook Glen, but given the home's huge discount and level of fini [...]
Will Waterview Tower “rust in peace” no more?
Crain’s Chicago Business is reporting (behind its paywall) that developer Michael Reschke may be nearing a deal to acquire the unfinished Watervie [...]
FitzGerald has big plans for One South Halsted
A couple summers ago, Gazette Chicago reported that Skokie-based F&F Realty planned to build a 514-unit apartment building with "hotel-style amenities [...]
New low for downtown’s rental inventory (plus what $2,000 will rent)
Over a three-week period in August 2010, the number of downtown-area condos, townhomes, and single-family homes listed for rent on the MLS pl [...]
565 Quincy and the West Loop at the start of a new year
565 Quincy is a new high-rise condo tower built on top of an existing loft building. At the time of Joe's visit last week, 27 of Quincy's 240 loft [...]
Liz Phair remembers Wicker Park
But does anyone remember Liz Phair?
A hat tip to Chicagoist for finding Phair’s reminiscences of the days of yore, i.e. the early 90s, in Wicke [...]
Feeling the pain: Owners unloading at Avenue East in Streeterville
Avenue East, 160 E Illinois St, seemed to have a steady stream of homes coming back on the market last year, and saw about one sale a month during 201 [...]
757 Orleans shakes loose some rust
Looks like a mix of price cuts, low-rate mortgages, and "free equity" incentives have thawed some of the ice around 757 Orleans @ Chicago in River [...]
Quote of the day: Bank-owned Studio Dwell condos are a tempting offer
It's rare to have such quality modern units being offered bank owned, in a solid building, in a great location and with few strings attached for a [...]
New stuff: Four condos planned for 1214 N Wood St in Wicker Park
Four of the 70 listings in Chicago tagged with 2011 completion dates are the condos planned for 1214 N Wood St in Wicker Park. The three-bedroom [...]
Downtown rental inventory still shrinking
The number of downtown condos, townhomes, and single-family homes listed for rent on the MLS has dipped below 1,100. This time last year, there we [...]
Curbed gets a better look at SoNo East
There's your building, folks. California-based architect Adam Berkelhamer sent Curbed new renderings of SoNo East, the 22-story, rental-only compa [...]
New stuff: 879 North Marshfield in East Village
Buyers now have three more homes to consider when looking at new construction in West Town. Yesterday Samantha Porter of @properties listed the units [...]
A Michigan Avenue condo ‘with the convenience of a suburban ranch house’
Dennis Rodkin's latest Deal Estate video is a must-see, both for the condo's abundance of antique furnishings and for the lively commentary offere [...]
Quote of the day: ‘An apartment-flipper market’
"It’s almost like we went from a condo-flipper market to an apartment-flipper market."
- Ron DeVries, vice-president at Appraisal Research Counsel [...]
Going up: Trump’s ‘best tier’ back at a $1.35M markup
Chezi Rafaeli of Coldwell Banker says the A-tier units of Trump's 41st through 49th floors are the best in the building, so popular with early pre-con [...]
Construction checkup: An Oak grows in Cabrini
Parkside of Old Town's next rental mid-rise is going up at the northeast corner of Larrabee and Oak streets, two blocks south of Cabrini Green's r [...]