10/21/11
Our rental deal of the day comes via one of our sponsors, Planned Property Management. Planned has four “large, dog-friendly” studios available for rent...
9/12/11
Planned Property , one of our sponsors, has 3 buildings with renovated apartments east of Broadway on Melrose, in Lakeview East. The buildings are...
4/29/11
The drawback to many vintage apartments in Chicago’s most popular neighborhoods is that the bedrooms are tiny. Not so in the courtyard apartments at...
4/28/11
Many of Chicago’s vintage courtyards have great bones — and sagging skin. They’re sorely in need of a modern update. The beautiful vintage court...
4/27/11
Single-family homes in Lake View can fetch rents as high as $10,000. For condos, the highest price point at the moment is $6,900, which...
4/27/11
The Chicago four-plus-one takes its name from the four residential floors above a single floor that houses a lobby and parking underneath the building....
4/25/11
Today’s deal from Chicago Rentals Direct is a two-bedroom / one-bath corner unit at 3639 N Pine Grove Ave, just a block east of...
4/12/11
Last week’s price cut at 434 W Oakdale Ave #2 didn’t strike me as the “massive price reduction” advertised in its listing — according...
3/30/11
Realtor Richard Cohn describes the vintage 10-unit building at 500 – 504 W Barry Ave in Lakeview East as “an architecturally significant, Gothic jewel...
3/15/11
On May 19, the three-bedroom / three-bath Unit 2C at The Eddystone, 421 W Melrose St, entered the market at $579,000. Three hundred days...
3/5/11
Tony and Ron had lived in 7 or 8 single-family homes but, when their jobs brought them to Chicago, they opted for a more...
5/5/10
The latest set of monthly data on home sales and prices at Redfin dates back to March, which already feels like it was ages...
10/22/09
Surely the four-plus-one has its fans, but in my experience, they’re few and far between. Occasionally you’ll come across a four-plus-one that breaks the...
10/20/09
From the Center on Halsted, Bob Darrow and I walked east along Waveland Avenue to Broadway. If Halsted Street represents the heart of Boys...
10/16/09
“Melrose between Broadway and Halsted is nearly idyllic — it’s just gorgeous,” says @properties agent Bob Darrow early on in this segment from our...
10/15/09
As Bob Darrow has already told us, home prices in and around Boys Town stretch from the mid-$100s for small studio condos up into...