Tag: West Loop
Touring a West Loop ho-ho-home
With Hanukkah and Christmas right around the corner, people often consider this a hibernation period for the real estate market, but I met one agent [...]
Crêpes and cheese at the French Market
Joe and I left the Ogilvie Transportation Center feeling better about the Chicago French Market than we did upon our arrival. Near the end of our vi [...]
First impressions of the French Market
I'm not sure what Joe and I expected to see upon our arrival at the Chicago French Market at the Ogilvie Transportation Center on Monday, but what w [...]
Loft living: Looking for downtown two-bedrooms in the high $300s
Daytime is playtime at the Yo office, so let's play pretend! Let's say I'm in the market for a two-bedroom / two-bath loft in a downtown neighborhood, [...]
Chopping block: New cuts in the West Loop
RMR Partners and @properties have taken a hatchet to four homes at 114 - 120 N Halsted St in the West Loop in the past week.
Two condos -- units #2 [...]
More on 565 Quincy's "installment sale"
Whatever you do, don't call it a rent-to-own plan! Belgravia prefers to call 565 Quincy's new offer an installment sale or simply a "better-than-rent- [...]
Rent-to-own arrives at 565 Quincy
Belgravia Group has announced a new rent-to-own program for the unsold condos and lofts at 565 Quincy. According to a notice that hit my inbox yeste [...]
Sales update: seven homes left at CA23
I toured some of the broker open houses in the West Loop yesterday and ambled over to the Brixton Group's CA23 at 23 N Aberdeen St. Megan Dunn, [...]
Designing for a cure at 565 Quincy
Through Sunday, Oct. 11, four newly furnished lofts and condos will be open for public viewing at 565 Quincy, Belgravia Group's combo loft conversio [...]
'L' stops and home sales in the 27th Ward
We were concerned about there not being a stop between Clinton Street and Ashland, which is more than a mile if I'm not mistaken. There's nothing in t [...]
Downtown shark attack! Price cuts in River North, South Loop, and West Loop
Matt Garrison of Coldwell Banker’s Matt Garrison Group recently launched CondoShark.com, which collects the details of big price cuts on homes in Ch [...]
The nearly news: The highs, lows, and in-betweens of West Loop one-bedrooms
Now that we're branching out beyond just new-construction homes and looking at resales and rentals, we can break out a feature that's been cooking i [...]
Chicago's new lofts: What's left?
The past year has done a number on the selection of new true lofts throughout the city. Some developments, like University Village, finally reached se [...]
CA23's local dance studio
Being in the West Loop, CA23's new condos at 23 N Aberdeen St have neighborhood amenities that more or less go without saying. Residents are blocks f [...]
Quote of the day: "Kicking the can"
...I find that selling units to actual home buyers is the more desirable alternative to developers facing tough decisions in this marketplace. Too of [...]
More scenes from the CA23 block party
When he wasn't busy sampling the eats or rocking out to U2 (or something like it) at The Brixton Group's block party on Aberdeen Street in the West [...]
A buyer's take on CA23
This weekend a buyer explained to Joe Zekas why he selected a home at CA23 in the West Loop after looking at "everything." The Brixton Group threw a [...]
Vertigo at CA23's West Loop block party
The Brixton Group, appealing to the many potential condo buyers who didn't score tickets to this weekend's U2 concert, hired Vertigo to perform at S [...]
West Loop kiddie carts
If you haven't been to the West Loop in a while you'll be thrown for a loop by the number of small kids you see there. I snapped this shot yesterday [...]
CA23 developer closing out summer with a West Loop block party
With just a few weeks of summer left, The Brixton Group is throwing a block party on North Aberdeen Street this weekend for its new neighbors in the [...]