1/27/11
Avenue East, 160 E Illinois St, seemed to have a steady stream of homes coming back on the market last year, and saw about...
1/26/11
Looks like a mix of price cuts, low-rate mortgages, and “free equity” incentives have thawed some of the ice around 757 Orleans @ Chicago...
1/24/11
Optima Old Orchard Woods is seeing some of the sharp price drops that have plagued suburban condo developments in recent years. There are currently...
1/24/11
2000 Lincoln Park West may benefit from some beautiful views, but the numbers there sure aren’t pretty. Homes that sold for $446 a square...
1/23/11
Last April I visited the 5-bedroom, 3 ½ bath home at 397 Sunset Rd in Winnetka, shortly after it came on the market. The...
1/23/11
Oak Brook is a highly desirable, aspirational community, but that’s not the gist of our reference to fantasyland. There are currently 32 homes priced...
1/22/11
Have some spare cash and looking for a rehab project? You can find a number of homes in Evanston’s Fifth Ward priced at under...
1/18/11
The 5-bedroom, 4 ½ bath, 2-car garage home on a corner lot at 1418 Elmwood Ave in Wilmette had only been on the market...
1/18/11
River City made news last summer after rainwater flooded its condos and garage, but there’s been a redder kind of liquid seeping from the...
1/18/11
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...
1/13/11
Seeing a new listing at 3700 Capri Ct at Triumvera set me off on a walk down memory lane. The listing states that it’s...
1/13/11
Back in July 2009, Mark Boyer stumbled upon a 17-unit condo building under construction at 1162 W Hubbard St in West Town. He couldn’t...
1/12/11
Recently, at sites where the wishful-thinkers don their blinkers and gather to blather about the future of Chicago’s lakefront market, there’s been a recurring...
1/11/11
Last July Bill and Sherry Kaplan, long-time friends, took me on a driving tour (video playlist) of Riverwoods, the closest-in approximation of a rural...
1/11/11
On Monday a contemporary single-family home at 1527 W Nelson St in Lake View dropped from $849,000 to $790,000, $50,000 below its August 2003...
1/9/11
“Our compelling prices represent a dramatic opportunity to buy high-end, very large, brand new condominiums at near auction-level pricing,” said Andy Kiener, when he...
1/3/11
This morning Joe Zekas, writing at Homeward Bound – West Suburbs, likened price cuts at Oak Brook’s Tower Condominiums to the “uncontrollable plummeting at...
1/3/11
2750 N Dayton St #8 isn’t really a new listing for 2011 — it’s been on the market since March, with an occasional delisting...
12/27/10
Down, down, down goes the price of this corner condo at 777 N Michigan Ave. Unit 3201, a 1,650 square-foot two-bedroom / 2.5-bath positioned...
12/3/10
A round of major price reductions resulted in just 17 new sales at the 15-story, 141-unit Mondial high-rise this year, so expect to see...