Crib Chatter

This 5-bedroom single family home at 2140 W. Montrose in Lincoln Square has been on the market since November 2011. In that time, it has been reduced once by $30,000 to $499,000. Built in 1929, it is on an oversized 37×125 lot. And no- there is NO El in the backyard (like we’ve seen with […]

This 2-bedroom vintage cottage at 1345 W. Webster in Lincoln Park has been on the market since October 2008. In that time it has been reduced more than 50% going from a list price of $1.275 million to now just $600,000. It is the adjacent parcel to 1339 W. Webster and is basically being sold […]

We last chattered about this 6-bedroom single family home at 1339 W. Webster in Lincoln Park all the way back in July 2009. See our prior chatter here. Back in 2009, it was listed at $4.2 million. It has since been reduced to $2.995 million. Built in 1896 and renovated sometime after 1996 by architects Burns & Beyerl, the […]

Since we had so much fun chattering about this 3-bedroom duplex down at 848 W. Roscoe in Lakeview last year on December 23, I thought we’d have at it again on the same day a year later. See our December 2010 chatter here. In the last year, it has been reduced another $67,000. If you […]

There will be no new posts on Monday, December 26 and Monday, January 2, 2012. Those are the days when most people will have the day off of work so Crib Chatter is going to take a break too. We’re at the time of the year when we’ll be chattering about what will be the […]

As someone recently pointed out on the 2011 N. Kenmore thread, this 2-bedroom at 1024 W. Armitage in Lincoln Park (which is in the same association as the Kenmore coach house) came back on the market. The bank has finally gotten  its act together on this property, since it has owned it since July 2011. It […]

  This 2-bedroom at 1410 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast has been on the market since June 2011. In that time it has been reduced $151,000 to $499,000. This building was constructed in 1981 yet it has the amenities that buyers look for today including central air, washer/dryer in the unit and garage parking. […]

This 2-bedroom corner loft in the Westgate Lofts at 331 S. Peoria in the West Loop has been on the market since August 2011. It is a brick and timber loft with high ceilings but it also has the privacy of 2 fully enclosed bedrooms. The listing says both bathrooms have been redone. The second […]

We’ve chattered about this 1-bedroom coach house at 2011 N. Kenmore several times since it came on the market in March 2010. See our last chatter, in June 2011, here. Originally listed all the way back in March 2010 (nearly 2 years ago now!) for $349,000, it was reduced to $315,000 in March 2011. And […]

If you saw the recent episode of House Hunters with the Chicago couple looking for a 2/2 with a $400,000 budget, you would have recognized this loft building at 2750 N. Wayne in Lincoln Park. The 2/2 on the episode actually just sold on December 1, but there is another 2/2 still listed, Unit L. […]