Mrs. O’Leary’s cow didn’t burn down this 4-bedroom Victorian at 2029 N. Seminary in Lincoln Park. Built in 1861 on a 25×124 lot, the house pre-dates the Chicago fire (making it among the oldest houses we’ve ever chattered about) and the oldest in West Lincoln Park. The listing says it was originally a farmhouse. With 3 fireplaces it […]
We first started chattering about this modern new construction single family home, being marketed by North Clybourn Group, at 1214 N. Rockwell in the East Humboldt Park neighborhood, in November 2010. See our prior chatter here. Back then, some of you were into it. After all it was a new construction house that was listed for […]
This 3-bedroom in the mid-rise condo building of the Urban Sandbox development at 1615 N. Wolcott in Bucktown just came on the market. This 8-unit building was originally marketed in 2007 but this unit didn’t sell until February 2010. The architect was Miller Hull and in 2009 it won the Builder’s Choice Urban Infill Grand […]
We last chattered about this 2-bedroom on the Boulevard at 2808 W. Logan Boulevard in Logan Square in May 2011. See our prior chatter here. Back then, it was listed for $45,000 under the 2006 price at $265,000. Since then, it has reduced its price another $16,000 to $249,000. In our last chatter, someone […]
I saw the movie “The Vow” over the weekend. It is set in Chicago (and actually uses quite a few Chicago scene-scapes.) Whatever you might think about the actual movie- how could you not fall in love with the loft-style house the main characters live in somewhere on the “north side”? (yes- I know it’s not “real” […]
Forget the 3-bedroom condo. Buy this bank owned 3-bedroom single family house at 1115 W. Roscoe in Lakeview for just $349,900 instead. What’s the catch? It’s on a very small 22×50 lot, with no backyard. It DOES have a 1-car garage (which you can see on the alley in the picture below.) The house has hardwood floors […]
We last chattered about this 3-bedroom single family home at 3134 N. Oakley in North Center in September 2011. See our prior chatter here. This is one of those “renovation/flips”. If you remember, this house had been bank owned earlier in 2011 and sold in July 2011 for $285,000. Just weeks later it returned to the market listed […]
This 3-bedroom top floor unit at 820 W. Webster in Lincoln Park just came on the market about a week ago. It is in a 6-unit building that was built in 1892 and still retains many of its vintage features including hardwood floors, an older fireplace and crown molding. But it also has the modern conveniences that […]
This 2 bedroom penthouse at 3750 N. Lake Shore Drive in Lakeview just came on the market. I am always insanely curious about the penthouses in these big pre-war buildings along Lake Shore Drive because they were built for the truly rich. (And they rarely come on the market.) So they must be unique- right? […]