3/30/11
Last May I stumbled across Fred Scovell’s listing for a Queen Anne-style mansion at 2801 S Prairie Ave on the Near South Side. His...
3/29/11
This 6,000 square-foot single-family home at 744 Sheridan Rd in Wilmette was the Wall Street Journal’s House of the Day on Monday. In a...
3/29/11
Last week I drove up to Lake View to see one of Eric Rojas’ newest listings — a four-bedroom / 3.5-bath single-family home at...
3/24/11
The lowest-priced single-family home in Wicker Park, excluding a short sale listing at 1234 N Marion Ct (marketed as a “hot Bucktown location”, despite...
3/23/11
How long should a home stay on the market at its introductory price before taking a cut? How long should it stay at a...
3/23/11
Last week Mike Hampton took Chuck Gekas through a new-construction single-family home at Smykal Homes‘ Ashford Place community in southwest suburban Plainfield. The home,...
3/22/11
While Chicagoland home builders have been experimenting with incentives to draw skittish buyers, Shodeen Residential’s Reston Ponds in Sycamore has kept it simple, maintaining...
3/22/11
Eric Rojas, on the Lake View market at the end of 1Q 2011: Over the last three months the median price of a closed...
3/16/11
What are the advantages of buying an immediate delivery home? John Wozniak, president of J. Lawrence Homes, recently outlined five advantages to buying a...
3/14/11
The first quarter of 2011 ends in a couple of weeks, at which point Realtors will begin poring over sales data for signs where...
3/11/11
Almost none of the listings posted in the past 24 hours advertise an open house for this weekend. One of the few is a...
3/10/11
Of course a French Provincial home on Ponchartrain Boulevard would catch my eye the week of Mardis Gras. This 2,690 square-foot home at 6551...
3/9/11
We already know that a short sale can be an interminable process, but it’s nice to see that some agents come out and address...
3/8/11
Rudolph Boehm isn’t a name I see mentioned outside of Beverly. From what I gather, Boehm wasn’t a prominent architect, but he designed several...
3/7/11
Last week Chuck Gekas met up with Michael Hampton, the director of sales for many of the J. Lawrence and Smykal Homes developments found...
3/3/11
Curbed’s Mark Boyer reports on the sale of the landmark Dr. Wallace C. Abbott House, a 120-year-old Queen Anne at 4605 N Hermitage Ave...
3/3/11
Back in October, I noted that the only home west of Western Avenue priced above $2 million was a nearly new mansion in Irving...
3/3/11
Whatever the general market conditions might be, well-priced, well-located homes still generate a major flurry of buyer interest and go under contract quickly –...
3/2/11
The new-construction single-families at 2836 S Lock St and 2841 S Broad St in Bridgeport, arrived on the market on February 18, 2006, and...
3/2/11
Rogers Park isn’t a big market for single-family homes. In the past 12 months, 27 single-families inside the community area have sold, at prices...