Tag: Northwest Side
Feeling the pain: $543K off a five-year-old home in Jefferson Park
The three-story single-family home at 5710 N Latrobe Ave in Jefferson Park's Edgebrook Glen subdivision was built in 2006, listed in August 2007 f [...]
Who’s leaving Albany Park?
Over the past decade, Albany Park's white, black, and Hispanic populations all grew by modest amounts, yet the community area's total population d [...]
Hispanics become the majority in Humboldt Park, even as their numbers decline
The Hispanic population of Humboldt Park fell by 4% in the past decade, dropping from 31,607 to 30,337, according to new Census data. But due to a [...]
A decade of changes for Belmont Cragin
If you start tracking which community areas Chicago's white, black, and Hispanic populations migrated in and out of between 2000 and 2009, you'll [...]
Edison Park ends its brief flirtation with integration
The Edison Park Community Area, which has long held the dubious title of Chicago’s most segregated neighborhood, has once again seen its African-Ameri [...]
New to the market: A four-bedroom home “priced for today” in Irving Park
The median list price for an Irving Park single-family built between 2000 and 2010 is in the mid-$600s, which is what the home above sold for back [...]
What’s your beef?
Halloween's long gone, but the horror stories keep on coming. In the past day buyers have complained under our YouTube videos and in NewHomeNotebook p [...]
Jeff Baird: Humboldt hit hard by recession
Jeff Baird is a real estate valuation consultant based in Chicago. He founded Lakeshore Analytics to bring comprehensive, understandable housing data [...]
A Dunning three-bedroom with an open floor plan for under $220K
Joe and Sergio & Banks agent Izabela Sloma walk through a three-bedroom home at 3131 N Octavia Ave in Dunning, priced at $219,900. The home is situa [...]
A three-bedroom charmer in Schorsch Village, priced at $249,900
Join Joe Zekas and Sergio & Banks agent Izabela Sloma for a walk through 7004 W Roscoe St, a three-bedroom single-family home priced at $249,900. Th [...]
High, low, and in-between in Belmont Cragin
Belmont Cragin placed third among Chicago's 77 community areas for the number of single-family homes sold between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010 -- [...]
Inside a four-bedroom / two-bath Galewood home, priced under $260K
Every home we've seen with Sergio & Banks has been different, but they've shared a number of common features. The homes have either been new constru [...]
Red Seal “closing out” Irving Park’s Villa District with new single-family homes
If you've ever been to the Villa District in Irving Park, you've probably noticed a wedge of undeveloped land bounded by Hamlin and Avondale avenue [...]
The only $2M+ home west of Western
At $2.19 million, the 9,850 square-foot, seven-bedroom / six-bath home at 3757 N Keeler Ave in Irving Park holds the distinction of being the most [...]
"Is Old Irving Park going to hell?"
Chicagoist points readers toward a discussion on EveryBlock about Old Irving Park, and whether the neighborhood is on the skids.
Among the problems p [...]
A condo alternative in Belmont Heights
Last week Joe Zekas toured a pristine three-bedroom single-family home with a two-car garage and a full, finished basement at 8152 W Belmont Ave in [...]
Stuff that sells: top two-bedroom sales from six city regions
What's moving? Here are the top three closing prices for two-bedroom condos, single-families, and / or townhomes in each region of the city over the p [...]
Touring a new single-family priced under $800K in West Bucktown
This new single-family home at 1706 N Rockwell St west of Bucktown features three to five bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a family room, a theater room, and a [...]
Climbing back to '04 prices in Avondale
Take a Dramamine and strap in -- we're taking a ride through the sales history of a home at 3051 N Monticello Ave in Avondale:
Sold in February 2 [...]
A spacious, light-filled home in Belmont Heights
Follow Joe Zekas and Sergio & Banks' Phyllis Bisceglie for a walk through a move-in ready, light-filled home in Belmont Heights on the city's Northw [...]