Tag: Luxury homes
$1M off over seven months for a Howe Street home
A $300,000 price cut over the weekend has brought this 5,400 square-foot, five-bedroom / 4.5-bath home at 1924 N Howe St in Lincoln Park down to $ [...]
Winnetka mansion tops suburban sales in April
May is only four days old, but the North Shore may have already seen the top sale for the month: Curbed says a Lake Forest mansion has just closed [...]
John Buck sues 199 East Lake Shore board over $8,600 monthly assessment hike
Developer John Buck's been fighting off a hike in his monthly assessments for almost three years. Now, says Crain's, he's taken his beef with 199 East [...]
Lake View mansion ‘like nothing on the market before’
The 10,000 square-foot mansion at 2856 N Hermitage Ave in Lake View is "like nothing on the market before in the city," says Jameson agent Nancy T [...]
Pre-fire five-flat turned single-family listed at $2.2M
Last Friday Prudential Rubloff agent Lindsey Stewart listed her 6,300 square-foot home at 1875 N Fremont St in Lincoln Park at $2.2 million. The b [...]
Dewes Mansion finally gets its listing
In November we learned that the Francis J. Dewes Mansion at 503 W Wrightwood Ave in Lincoln Park was available for $9.9 million. Yesterday, the ho [...]
Will R. Kelly’s old pad be No. 1 in Lake View?
R. Kelly's old den of sin at 1010 W George St (you know, the place where the dirty stuff went down) is under contract and set to close over the fr [...]
An ‘impeccable restoration’ in Wilmette, priced at $2.25M
This 6,000 square-foot single-family home at 744 Sheridan Rd in Wilmette was the Wall Street Journal's House of the Day on Monday. In a 10-photo s [...]
Rubloff prez talks Ritz-Carlton
This short video, courtesy of LXTV's Open House Chicago, plays very much like a commercial for Prudential Rubloff (because that's basically what i [...]
Choice cuts: Seven-figure slides for side-by-side mansions in Gold Coast
Stately and traditional or mostly mod? You'll find the former in the six-bedroom mansion at 75 E Elm St (at left), the latter in the six-bed [...]
Checking in: Another cut for LSD landmark
Speaking of luxury homes, you might remember a "shark bite" from last spring regarding a landmark Holabird & Roche mansion at 1258 N Lake Shore Dr tha [...]
Quote of the day: Luxury lives
"It hasn't been a good six months for all people, but it was a good six months for rich people. When Wall Street goes up, rich people buy homes."
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The Northwest Side’s new high end
Back in October, I noted that the only home west of Western Avenue priced above $2 million was a nearly new mansion in Irving Park. That home rece [...]
Big-ticket homes on East Lake Shore Drive hit the market
It's been a big week for the super-luxe market -- seven of the 50 homes in Chicago priced at $4 million or more were listed in the past seven [...]
A Michigan Avenue condo ‘with the convenience of a suburban ranch house’
Dennis Rodkin's latest Deal Estate video is a must-see, both for the condo's abundance of antique furnishings and for the lively commentary offere [...]
Choice cuts: Assumption School penthouse cut by 31% over 9 months
Won't someone claim this penthouse? The fourth-floor unit in the old Assumption School building at 319 W Erie St in River North is one of seven th [...]
Parking comes separately for $3.95M Gold Coast penthouse
Speaking of Astor Street, there's more to the Gold Coast co-op market than just the stately high-rises of East Lake Shore Drive. The 1200 block of [...]
New-construction Lake View home debuts at $2.45 million
Lake View's $2 million market didn't dry up in 2010 -- 10 homes sold at or above that price, compared to 12 in 2009 and 11 in 2008. There's still a su [...]
Whole lotta closin’ goin’ on at The Elysian
A $48 million haul isn't a bad way to start a week. That's the total price for the 11 two-, three-, and four-bedroom condos that closed at The Elysian [...]
The long tail of luxury in Lake View
Is there a demand for homes priced above $1.5 million in Lake View right now? According to Redfin, 21 (or 11 percent) of the 191 single-families t [...]