Tag: North Shore
Coldwell Banker leads Wilmette, Winnetka and Kenilworth sales in 2010
Coldwell Banker had the largest number of closed home sales during calendar year 2010 in Wilmette, Winnetka and Kenilworth.
In Wilmette, where [...]
Strategic defaults and walk-aways in Lake Forest
Times are apparently tough in Lake Forest – for boat owners.
According to a recent article at Lake Forest Patch, there are currently 19 sailboa [...]
Adler home for sale in Highland Park
Six months ago Ned Skae alerted me to the possibility that a record number of homes designed by architect David Adler were on the market in Lake F [...]
North Shore new construction – a new rule of thirds?
During most of 2006 I was actively tracking the status of every new construction home on Chicago’s North Shore.
In May of 2006 developer Cypre [...]
Grand Bend cuts prices in bid to sell out now
"Our compelling prices represent a dramatic opportunity to buy high-end, very large, brand new condominiums at near auction-level pricing," said A [...]
The lowest-priced rental home in East Wilmette
The past 7 days have seen a 40% jump in the number of MLS rental offerings in Wilmette – from 15 to 21.
One of them stands out: a 5-bedroom, ba [...]
A 6-bedroom Kenilworth rental bargain
It was a gloomy day in late December with about 8 inches of snow on the ground when I narrated this video illustrating the 5-minute walk from the [...]
Winnetka Plan Commission approves affordable housing plan despite opposition
The Village of Winnetka's Plan Commission recently considered, and adopted, a plan to expand the availability of affordable housing in the affluen [...]
Yo’s guide to moving to Winnetka
Winnetka is home to "the educated affluent," says Joe Zekas, a place with a largely unwarranted reputation when it comes to social snobbery and viewe [...]
McDonald’s tosses out NIMBY bait in Northfield
At the time I shot the above photo, in April of 2008, the gas station site at the left of the above photo had already been vacant for years. It’s [...]
The $50K and under Evanston single-family
The housing meltdown is surfacing single-family homes in Evanston at prices that were formerly unthinkable for vacant land, including 3 homes pric [...]
The fast food desertification of the North Shore
The concept of a “food desert” (PDF) is familiar to many West and South Siders in Chicago, but not everyone recognizes that most of Chicago’s Nort [...]
Tour a 20,000 square foot Northfield home
Curbed Chicago recently billed an 8,650 square foot home as a “temple of excess.” Some buyers would consider that size home pitifully inadequate.
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A brief look at southern Glencoe’s Woodlawn Ave
Home prices have fallen on the North Shore over the past several years, and Glencoe is no exception. The median list price, however, is still abov [...]
Mortgage lending is still alive on the North Shore
At an open house event in Winnetka, Joe Zekas met Diane Falk, a mortgage loan originator at Fifth Third Bank.
Joe had been hearing stories of p [...]
Should North Shore sellers sit out the holiday season?
A question on the minds of many home sellers as Thanksgiving approaches is whether they should take their home off the market during the holiday s [...]
Walking Evanston’s lakefront and the Northwestern campus with Grand Bend’s Andy Kiener
Earlier this week, Joe Zekas met up with Andy Kiener from Grand Bend at Green Bay and headed to Evanston's lakefront, located just a short distanc [...]
$5 million – now that’s a price reduction
A Winnetka manse that I wrote about just yesterday, when it was on the market for $28 million, was reduced today to $23 million. It originally cam [...]
Getting de-stoned in Kenilworth
After our chat at a Northfield open house, design-build honcho Geno Benvenuti mentioned that he was seeing a trend away from granite countertops a [...]
No Man’s Land in Wilmette
The northernmost stretch of Wilmette was once known as No Man’s Land, since it was unincorporated, and not part of Wilmette.
No Man’s Land develope [...]