Tag: Single-family homes
Half-mil homes: New listings near $500K
Yesterday afternoon I pulled up a list of homes priced at or near $500,000 (a range of $490,000 to $510,000, if you must know), that have been on the [...]
Market watch: What's available in Avondale
Avondale! Let's say you want to live there, because it's Chicago's next hot 'hood (or at least it was until RedEye decided it wasn't), but you don't [...]
$1.1M off "a place of gentility" in Lake View
Since going on the market in February at $3.45 million, the single-family home at 1236 W Cornelia Ave in Lake View has dropped in price by more than 3 [...]
$650,000 off a Kenwood District mansion
How's this for a price cut? A 7,000 square-foot home at 4900 S Kimbark Ave dropped in price Tuesday from $2.4 million to $1.75 million. That's 27 perc [...]
Howe Street mansion commands full price
Who needs price reductions? Maybe this one was priced right the first time around. From Chicago Magazine's Dennis Rodkin, via Twitter:
Howe St. mansi [...]
A jewel-box Tudor in Norwood Park
Scattered throughout the outer neighborhoods you'll find thousands of charming Tudor-style homes. Joe Z. calls them "jewel-box Tudors" based on thei [...]
Market snapshot: High and low, new and old, and more in Roscoe Village
View Roscoe Village, 8/9/2010 in a larger map
Looking for a home in Roscoe Village? Here's a sampling of what you'll find for sale today:
Lowest pri [...]
A seven-year-old single-family priced like a worker's cottage in Wicker Park
The median price for a four-bedroom single-family home in Wicker Park is just under $1.15 million. That amount, and slightly less, will get you a newe [...]
Taking an axe to Lincoln Park prices: new reductions on one- to four-bedroom homes
Here are examples of one-, two-, three-, and four-bedroom homes in Lincoln Park that have recently seen significant* price reductions in the past w [...]
The annals of inconsequential price cuts: more examples of stupid Realtor tricks
This weekend Joe Z. pointed out the pettiness of minuscule price cuts, which have no purpose except to bump homes up to the top of a search for newly [...]
What a $300,000 home in Plainfield looks like
In today's market $300,000 will get you a lot of home with a lot of extras in Plainfield, and that's one of the main reasons that Plainfield has gro [...]
From hot to not: East Garfield Park
What our staff said about East Garfield Park in 2007:
The streets are still tough here, but the tide has started to turn in recent years, with r [...]
From hot to not: Washington Park, three years later
In the summer of 2007, New Homes Magazine announced its picks for Chicago's hottest 'hoods. This morning I started looking up stats on each of these [...]
South Shore bungalows going green
The Historic Chicago Bungalow Association is putting the finishing touches on a fully renovated green model bungalow at 7622 S Cregier Ave in South [...]
Beyond Blaine: Schools near Southport, and other things buyers should know
Most of the conversations I've had with Realtors about schools in the Southport Corridor begin and end with Blaine. But as Realtor Eric Rojas notes [...]
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 [...]
Market watch: Comings and goings
How many Chicago condos, townhomes, and single-family homes have entered the MLS in the past three days? If you guessed 405, come claim your yo-yo.
A [...]
Riding the rails: $575,000 for an "exquisite" Painted Lady on Jarvis Avenue
Walk a block west from the Red Line's Jarvis station or a block east from Touhy Park and you'll find this turn-of-the-century Victorian home done up [...]
Stabilization program to showcase eight rehabbed properties in Chicago Lawn
Participants in the Chicago Neighborhood Stabilization Program have spent the past year purchasing and rehabbing dozens of bank-owned buildings compri [...]