5/29/12
Planned Property Management, one of our sponsors, has run contests for the best video set to the company’s theme song and for the its...
5/25/12
David Nadler of City Ranch Real Estate is a staunch proponent of the notion that condo and townhome rentals are value-priced in comparison to...
5/24/12
K2 at K Station is a 496-unit 34-story apartment tower that’s under construction in Chicago’s Fulton River District. McHugh Construction Project Engineer Owen Smith...
5/24/12
Optima Center, 200 E Illinois in Streeterville, has risen to two stories above the upper-level of Illinois Street. When complete the 325-unit building will...
5/24/12
The 500-unit apartment tower under construction at 500 N Lake Shore Dr in Streeterville is more than halfway toward its 45-story height. In the...
5/24/12
Bits of the façade are nearly all that’s left of the Mexican restaurant and rent-a-car outlet that formerly operated at 73 E Lake St...
5/23/12
The honking RENT NOW! sign for SoNo East apartments, 840 W Blackhawk St, is atop SoNo West. It’s hard to miss even from points...
5/23/12
The 43-story tower at 360 West Hubbard is just coming out of the ground in River North. It won’t be long before it obscures...
5/23/12
The Coast, 345 E Wacker Dr, is about two-thirds of the way toward its ultimate 49-story height. It appears to be on track to...
5/18/12
My recent schedule has kept me from spending as much time as I would have liked to at K2 at K Station, which is...
5/15/12
Our recently-launched YoRents service connects renters directly with quality landlords. Many renters, however, are daunted by the task of finding an apartment on their...
5/14/12
Anticipating a slow Mother’s Day, the 215 West apartment tower in the Loop sent an email blast on Saturday reminding rental services that it’s...
5/14/12
For the second week in a row the number of MLS-listed homes, apartments and condos in 6 north lakefront ZIP codes reached a new...
5/14/12
I’m not a fan of domu’s rental search, despite its slick map-based interface and ease of use. I’d rather take a slower path to...
5/11/12
It’s been almost exactly three years since we received word that Kimball Station, a 59-unit condo development in Albany Park, had converted to rentals....
5/10/12
When we looked in on 77 West Huron, back in March, the River North high-rise had 22 vacancies and was offering a $100 a...
5/9/12
You don’t need to be in a downtown high-rise to enjoy spectacular views of Chicago’s skyline. You don’t even need to be in a...
5/9/12
It seems like only yesterday that we were reporting steep price cuts on apartments at EnV in River North. It was, in fact, all...
5/9/12
The latest email newsletter from 42nd Ward Ald. Brendan Reilly brings word of an upcoming public meeting to discuss plans for a proposed development...
5/5/12
Discount is a dirty word in the world of new rental high-rises, where price-cutting takes the form of “free rent” specials limited to new...