Tag: Near North Side
A home-sized three-bedroom at The Regent in the Gold Coast
This three-bedroom / three-bath condo at The Regent, 190 E Walton Pl, has the feel of a luxurious home, and the spacious rooms, master suite, and st [...]
New to the market: $625K in '04, $485K today at The Churchill in the Gold Coast
Today's new listing is a 2,000 square-foot, two-bedroom / two-bath, northwest corner condo on the eighth floor of The Churchill, a vintage 64-unit h [...]
SoNo: "Steps to the lake"
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Yeah, it's another post about an @properties ad in the RedEye. (I swear, unlike a lot of the big brokerages out there, they aren't ou [...]
$300K in Old Town — what's selling, what's for sale
The median sale price for a condo or townhome in Old Town over the past six months has been just over $300,000, according to MLS data collected by Re [...]
A Neoclassical villa atop a Mag Mile skyscraper, for just $11.5 million
Does your home have an enough room?
Not enough room, but a room that gives visitors "just enough information" about you, and that serves as a "mirr [...]
A view of Chicago from SoNo's 23rd floor
You got a peek of Kim Hamilton's view of Chicago during our first segment from her SoNo condo. The last video from my recent trip to SoNo comes from [...]
Building SoNo's condo association from the ground up
When Smithfield Properties handed SoNo over to the building's condo association last month, everyone knew what to do, thanks in part to condo owner [...]
Inside SoNo: Kim's perfect view of Chicago
Occasionally I see commenters here and elsewhere complain about SoNo's location. It's isolated, they say, stuck in a no-man's land on the Near North [...]
Buying into a new-construction building
A brand-new condo brings with it a number of opportunities, responsibilities, and challenges that you might not find with resales or at older buildi [...]
SoNo, from an owner’s perspective
Last week a couple of owners at SoNo, 860 W Blackhawk St, used the comments section of an old post to invite us into their homes. Yesterday I met [...]
Crain's: Developers may rent out unsold inventory at Walton on the Park
The Enterprise Companies and Mesirow Financial Real Estate have received an extension on their $129.5-million construction loan for Walton on the Park [...]
Another Elysian condo returns to market
A lot of the flip attempts at the Elysian, 11 E Walton St, have come with significant markups -- as much as 33 percent above an original sale price in [...]
Crain's: Flats on LaSalle in foreclosure
The Flats on LaSalle condo conversion at 1140 N LaSalle St -- a project best known for its tiny, inexpensive studios and one-bedrooms -- faces a $7. [...]
Woodstock: How eight lakeside locations fared in first-half foreclosure filings
A couple weeks ago, the Woodstock Institute released foreclosure numbers for the first six months of 2010 (PDF), broken down by community area. Listed [...]
New "get off the couch prices" for Parkside of Old Town's condos and townhomes
In late April @properties quietly listed five condos from Parkside of Old Town's first phase, as an initial step in a roll-out to a much bigger mark [...]
Gold Coast rental rundown: One-bedroom apartments on Dearborn Street
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Review your rental options in the 60610 ZIP code and you'll notice that a lot o [...]
Downtown condo sales: who was busy in the first quarter of 2010?
More than 55 percent of downtown Chicago's new condo and townhome developments reported an increase in the number of units sold from the fourth quar [...]
What’ll become of Tier 01 now that Walton on the Park is ready to deliver?
Buyers weren't keen on the 01 tier at Walton on the Park, 2 W Delaware Pl, during the pre-construction phase. Will they change their minds once th [...]
Walton on the Park: Ready to go
Closings should begin at Walton on the Park, 2 W Delaware Pl, in early June, according to the sales associate manning the building's on-site sales cen [...]
Sales update: @properties handling sales for Parkside of Old Town's first phase
With the construction of more public and affordable-housing units just around the corner, @properties has been called in to market the surplus of co [...]