Tag: Foreclosures
Revisiting a 6-flat condo on Drexel Blvd
Five years ago today Yo looked in on a new-construction condo at 4010 S Drexel Blvd where 2- and 3-bedroom units were priced from the $260s to the [...]
From Yo’s archive – Grand Boulevard condos gone bust
Five years ago to the day we wrote about a new construction condo project at 4705 S Champlain Ave, where 3-bedroom, 2-bath units were priced from [...]
Is North River Court on Belmont coming back from the dead?
YoChicago first mentioned North River Court, a condo development at 2609 W Belmont Ave in Avondale, nearly 5 years ago. When we last wrote about i [...]
Michigan Avenue condo goes from foreclosure to first-class
When a foreclosed 1-bedroom condo at 535 N Michigan Ave came on the market early in July at a list price of $89,900 it triggered a flurry of offer [...]
A price drop and a new listing in Glenview’s Solar Park
When we first looked in on 801 Glenview Rd in the Solar Park subdivision in Glenview, back in May, the 5-bedroom, 3-bath home on a half-acre lot w [...]
An update on Bridgeport’s Union Lofts
It's been nearly 10 years since we first wrote about Union Lofts in our now-defunct New Homes Magazine. At the time, March of 2002, forty of the 7 [...]
Is Occupy Chicago using the homeless as cannon fodder?
Urban Turf Chicago links to a recent CNN Money article and contends that the Occupy movement "has come up with a creative, albeit rebellious, way [...]
Greenview Gardens, a Rogers Park condo price collapse
I stopped by Greenview Gardens in Rogers Park, 7633 – 39 N Greenview, to check the condition of the building.
What prompted my visit was a ste [...]
Google Street View’s Humboldt Park time capsule
View the 500 block of N Central Park Ave in Google Street View and you'll see a very different scene than the one, above, that I saw early yesterd [...]
FSBO follies in Logan Square?
In the early years of the millennium a patch of Logan Square along Armitage was a hotbed of development activity, playing host to a number of loft [...]
Chicago News Cooperative visits West Garfield Park, thinks it’s in Austin
Whenever you read about a West Side or South Side neighborhood in Chicago's mainstream media you need to double-check the reference. Reporters vis [...]
Arcadia Terrace short sale asking 38% of last sale price
A 2-bedroom, 1-bath condo at 2454 W Ardmore Ave in Arcadia Terrace has been serially reduced in price from $119,000 when it was listed in March to [...]
Quote of the day – North Lawndale not monolithic
The Tribune's Dawn Turner Trice recently visited North Lawndale with Marcus Betts, a resident who's optimistic about the neighborhood's future. Ac [...]
Asking $2,275,000 over July purchase price in Glencoe
The recently-built home at 120 Mary St in Glencoe had been the subject of a flurry of lien claims and a foreclosure before being acquired for $2,2 [...]
Demolitions likely to ramp up in Chicago
CNBC's Diana Olick is in Chicago reporting on a Bank of America program to demolish homes and turn them over to the city. According to Olick:
C [...]
Quote of the day – Chicago’s affordable hosing program
We first wrote about Madison Estates, a development in the 2200 block of West Madison on Chicago's Near West Side, back in January of 2007 – a dif [...]
Is mortgage fraud still afoot in Englewood?
Back in early August the Feds announced (PDF) the indictment of fourteen individuals charged with engaging in mortgage fraud in the Englewood neig [...]
LiveEvanston program offers low money down rehabbed homes
Last year Evanston received an $18.15 million federal grant to acquire and rehab 100 units of foreclosed and abandoned properties in two census tr [...]
Quote of the day – housing is the economy’s silent killer
Although you can question its accuracy, you can't deny the attention-grabbing nature of the wording in this LA Times article:
More than four years [...]
Legal fees impact Marina City’s assessments
One of the wild card expenses associated with living in a condo development is legal fees, and foreclosure activity in recent years has often resu [...]