Tag: Short sales
The daily news: "Elegant" single-family short sale in Bucktown relisted at $2.1 million
Today's new listing comes to us straight outta south central Bucktown. This 4,758 square-foot single-family home went up a couple year ago on a double [...]
From board-up to fixed-up in West Pullman
Things haven't been pretty in West Pullman. The South Side neighborhood was home to 435 foreclosures in 2009 and another 97 in the first three mo [...]
The daily news: Hear back in three weeks or less about Uptown short sale
Is everyone figuring out this short sale business? Several Realtors have bragged to me this year about their easy short sales, and none have shared [...]
New cut takes University Village single-family 28 percent below '07 sale price
A single-family at 1454 S Emerald Ave, featured around the midpoint of this recent University Village tour video with Realtor Gary Lucido, is now av [...]
From the field: It's a short sale world
First off, remember that you're going to be working with someone in hardship, someone who's probably going through a very hard time emotionally. You h [...]
Quote: Speedier short sales on the horizon
From CNNMoney.com:
Elizabeth Weintraub, a Sacramento, Calif.-area real estate agent who handles many short sales, was amazed at how quickly a recent [...]
Shark bites: Finding the perfect REO for a determined first-time buyer
By mid-2009, Max knew his search for distressed properties wasn't going as planned.
"I was working with an agent for a while and wasn't seeing anythi [...]
Quote of the day: Taking advantage of the foreclosure trend
So distressed properties are the market's "new normal" -- what does that mean for people who aren't looking to buy or sell a foreclosed home or short [...]
Shark bites: What's driving 1400 Lake Shore Drive's auction?
The size and pace of price reductions among 1400 Lake Shore Drive's resales haven't made things any easier for RDM Development, which still has about [...]
Shark bites: Lake Shore Drive deals, from Streeterville to Lake View
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This afternoon I plotted out all of the top Lake Shore Drive price reductions, foreclo [...]
Quote of the day: short sales will rule
So much for our predictions -- the Calculated Risk blog looked at a new report on foreclosures and declared 2010 "the year of the short sale." [...]
Shark bites: Looking for lofts in all the right places
Due to their neighborhoods' old industrial and warehousing natures, many of the discounted homes, short sales, and foreclosures in River North, the [...]
FBI: Short sale scams on the rise
FlippingFrenzy.com, one of the more than 100 publications and blogs we feed into Chicago Real Estate News, published a story this morning about the ne [...]
Should agents pre-qualify short-sale sellers?
That question is asked and answered (to some extent) in a blog post at AgentGenius, which is primarily an agent-to-agent site.
Koenig & Strey agent G [...]
What $100,000 will buy you in the Loop
Inspired by Dennis Rodkin's "Gallery of Low Prices" on the Chicago Magazine Deal Estate blog, I started sifting through downtown homes listed at or [...]
Shark bites: Short-selling a Trump studio
Unit #2414 at Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago may be one of the high-rise's smaller spaces, but when it comes to short sale discounts in Riv [...]
Shark bites: Big discounts at 2000 North Lincoln Park West Private Residences
Four of the top ten homes on CondoShark.com's list of foreclosures and short sales in Lincoln Park are located inside the 16-story, 120-unit 2000 Nort [...]
Lakeside living for under $55,000
For $54,900, you can pick up a one-bedroom / one-bath condo less than 500 feet away from the edge of Lincoln Park's northern reaches and just a few [...]
En-Vision-ing short sales on State Street
Following the mention of short sales at River City on Monday, I started checking other buildings in the South Loop to see where short sales were conce [...]
Shark bites: 43 percent off a River City short sale
The CondoShark normally checks in on Fridays, but we gave him some time off for the New Year. He's back to the grind today and has already found a t [...]