Tag: Downtown Loop
Crain’s: Block 37 on course to foreclosure sale
A Cook County judge issued a foreclosure order against Block 37 earlier today, paving the way for a foreclosure sale sometime in early 2011, Crain [...]
Downtown’s rental inventory: a year in review
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 "re [...]
What’s your beef?
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 p [...]
Grand jury: Pure was a Ponzi scheme
Anyone who has followed the story of Pure over the past two years knows the building is anything but. Today, a federal grand jury indicted the dev [...]
1000 Lake Shore, Drive vs. Plaza: Similar addresses, different price points in the Gold Coast
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: 1000 Nort [...]
Lease-up for downtown’s newest apartment buildings nears halfway point
Roughly half of the apartments in downtown's seven newest rental high-rises are now under lease, according to Appraisal Research Counselors' latest Do [...]
Promotions from the past: “The ideal home-in-town” at Sandburg Village
Last week we found a folder of promotional materials for Sandburg Village that surely date back to the late 1960s. Earlier today I scanned this list o [...]
Searching for stability in Chicago neighborhoods
Jeff Baird is a real estate valuation consultant based in Chicago. He founded Lakeshore Analytics to bring comprehensive, understandable housing d [...]
Could Waterview move ahead as an office tower?
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, but as a [...]
Sales update: 15 condos left at SoNo
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 860 W [...]
Kardas puts on an air show
Our ace photographer Michael Kardas is currently at the VA hospital for a knee replacement. His take on it is “a new knee, a new me.” Or maybe he [...]
Rumor mill: New plans for Peshtigo site?
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 Magazine. Th [...]
Rent or buy a Pumpkin’s pad
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 tr [...]
Choice cuts: $6,000 to $310,000 off original prices at Walton on the Park
Hat tip to CribChatter for discovering a new round of price cuts at Walton on the Park, 2 W Delaware Pl.
The new prices, rolled out yesterday, are an [...]
Decision on Lexington Park Condominiums to be made in early 2011
Lexington Park Condominiums will stay empty through the beginning of the new year, as owner ST Residential comes to a decision on whether to market th [...]
October in review: Looking back at sales in the Downtown / Loop market
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. I pu [...]
Pups on parade
Over the weekend Joe Z. posted some pics from a Halloween dog parade outside Alta at K Station in the Fulton River District. In case you missed the [...]
Mondial on the move
In the four months since @properties took over the marketing of Mondial, 910 W Huron St in River West, and cut prices on select condos by 10 to 30 per [...]
Halloween dog parade at K Station
The shots in the slide show were taken this morning at a Halloween dog costume contest and parade at the park at K Station.
The event was organi [...]
What Yelpers say about Presidential Towers
With 20 entries to its name, Presidential Towers, 555 W Madison St, is the second most reviewed development in the downtown area at Yelp. Why does it [...]