Tag: Single-family homes
Landmark living at $99 per square foot
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 listing had no [...]
An ‘impeccable restoration’ in Wilmette, priced at $2.25M
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 10-photo s [...]
A spacious single-family in Lake View, priced below the median
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 2911 N Racine Ave, [...]
A ‘vanilla box’ in Wicker Park, priced below $500K
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", de [...]
Cutting prices early and often in Holstein Park
How long should a home stay on the market at its introductory price before taking a cut? How long should it stay at a new price before changing on [...]
Touring a new home at Ashford Place in Plainfield
Last week Mike Hampton took Chuck Gekas through a new-construction single-family home at Smykal Homes' Ashford Place community in southwest suburb [...]
Shodeen sticks with grand opening prices at Reston Ponds in Sycamore
While Chicagoland home builders have been experimenting with incentives to draw skittish buyers, Shodeen Residential's Reston Ponds in Sycamore ha [...]
A million is the median in Lake View
Eric Rojas, on the Lake View market at the end of 1Q 2011:
Over the last three months the median price of a closed or under contract single fam [...]
Five reasons to buy an immediate delivery home from J. Lawrence
What are the advantages of buying an immediate delivery home? John Wozniak, president of J. Lawrence Homes, recently outlined five advantages to b [...]
What’s selling in Wicker Park’s single-family market?
The first quarter of 2011 ends in a couple of weeks, at which point Realtors will begin poring over sales data for signs where the market stands g [...]
Open house Sunday: A “ten-star location” in Graceland West
Almost none of the listings posted in the past 24 hours advertise an open house for this weekend. One of the few is a four-bedroom / two-bath home [...]
Classic French Provincial listed for $659,000
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 N Pon [...]
Belmont Cragin short sale: ‘Prepare to wait’
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 that in their listing [...]
‘Space for everyone’ in a Rudolph Boehm home in Beverly
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 wel [...]
Touring a new-construction home in Minooka
Last week Chuck Gekas met up with Michael Hampton, the director of sales for many of the J. Lawrence and Smykal Homes developments found throughou [...]
Stuff that sells: Landmark Abbott House sells for $1.6M
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 in Uptown. [...]
The Northwest Side’s new high end
Back in October, I noted that the only home west of Western Avenue priced above $2 million was a nearly new mansion in Irving Park. That home rece [...]
Flurry of interest results in sale of Evanston home
Whatever the general market conditions might be, well-priced, well-located homes still generate a major flurry of buyer interest and go under cont [...]
1,839 days and counting for two Riverside Homes in Bridgeport
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 haven't [...]
From $86K to $289K in 16 months in Rogers Park
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 rangi [...]