Tag: Single-family homes
Conditions are right to move up to a new-construction home at Reston Ponds
Homeowners considering a change of location would be wise to list their homes now to avoid competition from foreclosures later in the year, say ar [...]
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 [...]
Lynwood, the ‘hidden jewel’ of the south suburbs
Bridget McClendon of J. Lawrence Homes offers a short introduction to the Village of Lynwood, located south of Chicago. In Lynwood you can find J. [...]
Create your space at Ambry Estates in Lynwood
At Ambry Estates in south suburban Lynwood, buyers can find a new-construction, Dunrobin-style home that's ready immediate delivery, but that stil [...]
A $2.6M Uptown sale? If only…
A Crain's news nugget about a $2.69 million sale in Uptown had me all excited this afternoon -- after all, the median sale price for an Uptown sin [...]
Choice cuts: Lake View single-family now $50K below ’03 sale price
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 sale pri [...]
New-construction Lake View home debuts at $2.45 million
Lake View's $2 million market didn't dry up in 2010 -- 10 homes sold at or above that price, compared to 12 in 2009 and 11 in 2008. There's still a su [...]
A ‘Modernist interpretation’ of a Kenwood mansion, priced at $1.59 million
Looking for an alternative to all those Queen Annes and Italianate mansions in Kenwood? This James Nagle-designed single-family at 4824 S Woodlawn [...]
A quick glance at Garfield Ridge
Despite seeing thousands of white and African-American residents leave, the Southwest Side neighborhood of Garfield Ridge actually grew in size by [...]
West Town short sale starting a grand below ’07 sale price
Remember, "short sale" doesn't always equal "fire sale." The single-family home at 2208 W Huron St in West Town (the one on the left in the pictur [...]
Comparing census tracts in Curbed Cup competitors
The fourth matchup in the Curbed Cup quarterfinals is coming down to the wire. As I write this, Logan Square is leading West Town in voting 55% t [...]
Castlewood Terrace home now available at ’02 sale price
When I toured this three-bedroom / 3.5-bath home at 920 W Castlewood Terrace in Margate Park last March, it was priced at just under $1.6 million. [...]
Choice cuts: 29% off a Lincoln Park storefront home
Follow that little red Carrera above down the 1100 block of West Webster Ave and you'll pass the storefronts of the Cotelac, McShane's Exchange, L [...]
Controversial Bridgeport mansion back on the market
The Bridgeport home at the center of a federal housing discrimination suit is back on the market at a familiar price.
Richard Carlino of Villa [...]
A ‘screaming deal’ on a Hinsdale home
Toward the end of a tour of Clarendon Hills, Mike McCurry stopped to show Joe Zekas a five-year-old home in Hinsdale that originally sold for $2.6 [...]
The long tail of luxury in Lake View
Is there a demand for homes priced above $1.5 million in Lake View right now? According to Redfin, 21 (or 11 percent) of the 191 single-families t [...]
One of these things is not like the others
"Luxury in Chicago means anything over $3,000 a month," says CNBC. With that in mind, I spent part of my afternoon searching for homes listed righ [...]
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 [...]
In West Pullman, a “mini-mansion” goes for $179,000
Way down in West Pullman, where the 12-month median sale price of a single-family is $27,100 and nothing's listed higher than the $250s, you can [...]
New to the market: River North residence back in action for $4.19 million
Few listings cross the $4 million threshold in River North. Until yesterday, only four homes in River North were priced above that mark: a 38th-floor [...]