Tag: Luxury
Superior 110, a gleaming gem in River North
Viewing Chicago's skyline from the west your eyes are drawn to a striking River North high-rise. What locals call "the blue building" is Superior [...]
Oakwood 200 Squared makes winter wonderful
While residents of other neighborhoods are slogging through the snow and braving Chicago's winter winds, residents at Oakwood 200 Squared grab a c [...]
Home for the holidays at Oakwood 200 Squared
Chicago's Loop is always buzzing with events, pulsing with an energy level you can experience only in the heart of a few of the world's great citi [...]
Video tours of Playboy Mansion condos
Chicago Magazine's Dennis Rodkin takes you inside the largest unit at the Playboy Mansion, 1340 N State Pkwy, in the above video. The 7,874 squar [...]
Dueling penthouses at Water Tower Place
Two 72nd floor penthouse units have recently come on the market at Water Tower Place in Streeterville.
Unit 7201 is a 2-bedroom, 2 ½ bath home [...]
A $2.7M spec home of immense stature in Bucktown
If pretensions were buyers, the newly-listed home under construction at 1921 W Wabansia St in Bucktown would have multiple offers. Brace yourself [...]
Grunsfeld home in Glencoe sells 28% below 2001 price
Ernest A ("Tony") Grunsfeld III, who died in April, designed many North Shore homes in a modernist style. In his oral history at the Art Institute [...]
A contemporary single-family on a wide lot in the Bell School District
The 2500 block of Patterson is a quiet cul-de-sac that's been built out with newer million-dollar homes in Chicago's North Center neighborhood. It [...]
The mansionization of the mid-sized home
If you visit a lot of real estate venues you may have noticed a growing number of references to homes as mansions.
Mansionization isn't a word [...]
A comfortable new East Village 5-bedroom
Noah Properties has recently completed three new contemporary homes in the 1800 block of West Erie in Chicago's East Village.
The first two so [...]
An impressive luxury home in Noble Square
As you enter the newly-built, recently-listed, 4-bedroom, 3 ½ bath home at 514 N Ada St you're facing a dramatic soaring staircase framed in glass [...]
Crain’s – rents, occupancies fall in downtown luxury buildings
We've recently noted that a number of downtown high-rises, including ones in River North and Streeterville, have been offering incentives to new r [...]
A classic corner-lot single-family in Lincoln Park
The 1200 block of Lill in Lincoln Park / DePaul is a quiet, secluded location that's just a few blocks from the Fullerton El stop. At the end of t [...]
A grand, gracious 6-bedroom Ravenswood home
Some homes have an air of settled, gracious, comfortable permanence about them, and this is genuinely one even though it's only four years old.
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$400K price reduction on Lincoln Park single-family
A renovated 19th century home in Lincoln Park just came on the market as a new listing, although it's been listed on and off since April of 2009.
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Is this the perfect LSD condo?
The recently-listed 3-bedroom, 2 ½ bath, 2,200 square foot Unit 10A at 1300 N Lake Shore Dr is "the perfect condo" according to Coldwell Banker li [...]
A new home in Elmhurst’s College View neighborhood
I've seen quite a bit of west-suburban Elmhurst of late, and what struck me the most is the number of new construction homes underway on infill si [...]
A South Loop home renting for $14,900 a month
A 4-bedroom rowhouse at 1815 S Prairie Pkwy is looking for a tenant to pay $14,900 a month. That's nearly 5 times the next highest asking rent in [...]
Condo sales surface at The Clare
Shortly after Crain's reported that The Clare at Water Tower had defaulted on $229 million in debt, we noted that twenty-two of its apartments wer [...]
The quality of which cannot be purchased in Chicago
A new listing on the 67th floor at Trump Tower boasts that:
New York designers spared no expense in customizing this turn-key luxury dwelling - [...]