2-Bedroom Vintage with Parking and W/D for $635,000 at 447 W. Fullerton Parkway in Lincoln Park
This top floor 2-bedroom at 447 W. Fullerton Parkway in Lincoln Park came on the market in April 2024.
Built in 1900, the building has 8 units. This listing says it has one parking space included, but in an older crib on this building, it says there isn’t parking at all.
Some of these vintage buildings only have 1 or 2 garage spaces with the building so this may be such a case.
The listing calls this unit the “perfect marriage of vintage character and modern updates.”
It has some of its original vintage features including a separate dining room with built-ins and a beamed ceiling, and sunroom, which the listing says could be used as a bonus space.
The unit also has a foyer with what may be a vintage mirror (?), extensive wall moldings throughout, French doors in the living room and hardwood floors throughout.
The listing says the kitchen and both bathrooms have been “tastefully” upgraded.
The kitchen has white cabinets and stainless steel appliances.
The unit has a private back deck.
It has the features that buyers look for including washer/dryer in the unit, and what looks like wall cooling units. It also has one of the coveted parking spaces, which is included.
Is the parking truly on site? There’s no picture of it.
This building is near the shops and restaurants of Clark Street in Lincoln Park and Lakeview. It’s near Lincoln Park and the Zoo as well as numerous bus routes.
Listed at $635,000, this unit last sold in June 2016 for $496,000.
It seems to have everything buyers of vintage would look for.
Will this sell for the asking price?
Ashley Cox at Compass has the listing. See the pictures here (sorry, no floor plan).
Unit #3W: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1438 square feet
- Sold in December 1987 for $148,500
- Sold in March 1992 for $176,000
- Sold in April 1997 for $206,500
- Sold in February 2000 for $289,500
- Sold in August 2002 for $376,000
- Sold in August 2005 for $390,000
- Sold in June 2016 for $496,000
- Listed in April 2024 for $635,000
- Assessments of $414 a month (includes heat, exterior maintenance and scavenger)
- Taxes of $8386
- No central air- but wall units
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Decorative fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 14×13
- Bedroom #2: 13×10
- Living room: 17×17
- Dining room: 15×13
- Kitchen: 14×9
- Sunroom: 15×6
- Deck
“Is the parking truly on site? There’s no picture of it.”
Google earth shows a few cars parked behind the building, I think the Garage door shown in the first picture belongs to a different property
“The listing calls this unit the “perfect marriage of vintage character and modern updates.”
Theres a special place in hell for chuds who paint over beautiful woodwork. This is a weak attenpt at french farmhouse design done poorly
W/D is in the MBR Closet – I hope you like moldy clothes
I bid $0
“I bid $0”
Oh, come on. It’s certainly worth 1992 price + CPI, or $395k.
Baths look nicer than in ’16, and the kitchen is defintely improved by the paint and the new appliances (I hate the glass cabint doors, tho).
“Oh, come on. It’s certainly worth 1992 price + CPI, or $395k.”
I would have an insatiable thirst to throat punch people every time I walked in the door.
I dont like jail
Ergo its worth $0
I am guessing you can hear your neighbors through the floor. Great location. Kitchen gives me some icks. Dunno who painted over all that wood but they should be shot. I personally wouldn’t pay over $500K for this but I am also not likely to ever want to buy a condo again in my life if I can help it so my opinion may not matter.
I like how the dining room looks.
LR is nice too. It would look better if they disposed of the large computer monitor that’s currently over the “fireplace” and installed a TV where the green bench/picture (Flatiron Building?) is (or paint the fireplace wall/built-ins something dark and install a tv up there). For the listing pics (and open house?), I might have placed the stationary bike and giant printer in the garage or whatever, along with the shoe trays currently at the front and back doors.
We’ve discussed this building before and it always seems like a poor location to me. Fullerton is way too busy a street for me to want to live on.
“I am guessing you can hear your neighbors through the floor.”
I once lived in an 1890 building. I have PTSD about the creaking wood floors. I can never do it again. Only new construction for me.
At least this is the top floor so no one is walking above you.
Old rental apartment buildings, yes, like this one, often were quite battered before their condo conversations. The woodwork is often damaged, destroyed in sections, and/or beyond refinishing with natural stain. Paint is the cost-effective solution, paint hides repairs, mars, patches, and new sections that don’t quite match. Ditto for the fireplace soot marks on brick faces, more paint to hide the blemishes.
This unit appears renovated to only rental-grade quick-fix “fancy”, Home Depot finishes, not really a high-end condominium per the aspirational pricing.
“Old rental apartment buildings, yes, like this one, often were quite battered before their condo conversations. The woodwork is often damaged, destroyed in sections, and/or beyond refinishing with natural stain. Paint is the cost-effective solution, paint hides repairs, mars, patches, and new sections that don’t quite match. Ditto for the fireplace soot marks on brick faces, more paint to hide the blemishes.”
Look at the previous sale pics, looks to be in good shape
This was chudded up without a reason
“This unit appears renovated to only rental-grade quick-fix “fancy”, Home Depot finishes, not really a high-end condominium per the aspirational pricing.”
Perhaps standard 2/2s with parking in East Lincoln Park are now priced around $600k. “High end” would be $1 million. Prices have gone up.
It doesn’t have to be 130 years old to have creaking wood floors. Our house was built in the late 1940s and the creaking floors drive me and my wife nuts when one of us needs quiet and the other needs to get stuff done.