11/19/10
A Cook County judge issued a foreclosure order against Block 37 earlier today, paving the way for a foreclosure sale sometime in early 2011,...
11/19/10
Fifty-two weeks ago, we started tracking the number of homes listed for rent in 14 different downtown-area ZIP codes. (Every Friday, using the “rental”...
11/17/10
Halloween’s long gone, but the horror stories keep on coming. In the past day buyers have complained under our YouTube videos and in NewHomeNotebook...
11/17/10
Anyone who has followed the story of Pure over the past two years knows the building is anything but. Today, a federal grand jury...
11/16/10
So I’m casually browsing Gold Coast over a morning coffee, and I start to detect an unnaturally wild spread in pricing at one location:...
11/15/10
Roughly half of the apartments in downtown’s seven newest rental high-rises are now under lease, according to Appraisal Research Counselors‘ latest Downtown Chicago Residential...
11/15/10
Last week we found a folder of promotional materials for Sandburg Village that surely date back to the late 1960s. Earlier today I scanned...
11/15/10
Jeff Baird is a real estate valuation consultant based in Chicago. He founded Lakeshore Analytics to bring comprehensive, understandable housing data and analysis to...
11/15/10
Developer Mark Goodman may try to complete the unfinished Waterview Tower at 111 W Wacker Dr, not as a 90-story condo / hotel high-rise,...
11/11/10
SoNo‘s closeout has begun. According to a new press release from @properties, the 15 condos still for sale in the 199-unit building, located at...
11/6/10
Our ace photographer Michael Kardas is currently at the VA hospital for a knee replacement. His take on it is “a new knee, a...
11/5/10
I’m not big on Realtor society gossip and luncheon recaps, so I normally skip over Agent X’s “Agent About Town” writeups in Chicago Agent...
11/4/10
Today is the greatest…time to buy! Despite all his rage, Billy Corgan’s home is still…oh, forget it. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman has been trying...
11/4/10
Hat tip to CribChatter for discovering a new round of price cuts at Walton on the Park, 2 W Delaware Pl. The new prices,...
11/4/10
Lexington Park Condominiums will stay empty through the beginning of the new year, as owner ST Residential comes to a decision on whether to...
11/3/10
Yesterday’s news of a $5.25 million resale at the Palmolive Building (right) had me wondering what else sold in the downtown market this October....
11/2/10
Over the weekend Joe Z. posted some pics from a Halloween dog parade outside Alta at K Station in the Fulton River District. In...
11/1/10
In the four months since @properties took over the marketing of Mondial, 910 W Huron St in River West, and cut prices on select...
10/30/10
The shots in the slide show were taken this morning at a Halloween dog costume contest and parade at the park at K Station....
10/29/10
With 20 entries to its name, Presidential Towers, 555 W Madison St, is the second most reviewed development in the downtown area at Yelp....