Tag: Gold Coast
Chicago's tall towers: a year in review
Downturn be damned -- when it comes to high-rise construction, Chicago still rules the roost. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Hab [...]
Construction checkup: Ten East Delaware is ready for its closeup
The MLS shows record of a January 6th closing at Ten East Delaware, 10 E Delaware Pl, marking a brand new chapter for this high-rise. Unit #9E, a t [...]
Renovated penthouse homes at 1400 Lake Shore Drive available at discount
After reading yesterday's post about Jameson Real Estate's new marketing efforts at 1400 Lake Shore Drive, Coldwell Banker agent Matt Garrison e-mail [...]
Jameson touts "prices we haven't seen since 1988" at 1400 Lake Shore Drive
One by one, each of RDM Development's projects shifted over to Jameson Real Estate this year. The brokerage started marketing Trio in January and Vi [...]
A new glimpse inside The Elysian
A special word of thanks to the Chicago Architecture Blog for sharing the link to this strangely silent video, released in conjunction with the open [...]
Shark bites: Serving up slices of single-family home deals
Chomp, chomp! CondoShark has locked its jaws on dozens of single-family homes in the Gold Coast, Lincoln Park, Bucktown, and Lake View. In each are [...]
Weekly rental watch: High, low, and in-between in 60611
Last week we started keeping track of rentals listed on the MLS in 14 Chicago ZIP codes. It comes as no surprise that the area with the most homes lis [...]
Elysian scraps its hotel condos
That's one way to reduce excess supply in the market.
We've heard for months now that the developers of The Elysian, 11 E Walton St, were trying to d [...]
Gold Coast life after death
A columbarium on Dearborn?
Many who've passed on life on the Gold Coast may take up residence there after they've passed on, if a local architect's p [...]
The Gold Coast and Streeterville markets: What's hot, and what's not
Before we got onto the topic of North Side neighborhoods, Coldwell Banker agent Jenny Ames and I discussed the Gold Coast and Streeterville markets, [...]
Construction checkup: Walton on the Park
Up and up and up Walton on the Park goes...where it stops, somebody knows! I'll hazard a guess and say it has another three stories left in it, bas [...]
Popular high-rises, good condo boards, and special assessments in the luxury market
New towers like Trump and The Legacy at Millennium Park get a lot of attention right now, but several luxury high-rises built in the earlier part of [...]
The problem with hotel condos
The hotel condo market might have seemed like a good idea to some developers in the earlier part of the decade, but lenders sure don't like them now [...]
The Elysian's metropolitan touch
After dropping me off at the Hancock for my interview with Jenny Ames of Coldwell Banker, my man Jeeves pulled the company car around to The Elysian [...]
Talking Trump and the luxury home market
I've read plenty of stories about the "cold" market for luxury homes in recent months. Most focus on two facts: buyers lost money in the stock marke [...]
Shark bites: taking hefty chomps out of three Gold Coast condos
Every week we scan Matt Garrison's CondoShark.com to check out the biggest price cuts on homes in Chicago’s most popular neighborhoods. Here are jus [...]