Crib Chatter

This 2-bedroom at 1400 N. Lake Shore Drive in the Gold Coast has been on the market 14 months. We’ve chattered about this building several times. It was converted from apartments to condos in 2007 but it was already past the peak of the condo market. You could buy a unit as-is or you could […]

We last chattered about this 2-bedroom townhouse at 2325 N. Wayne in Lincoln Park in April 2009 when it sold for $78,000 under the 2005 purchase price. See our prior chatter here. It is now listed for just $20,000 over the 2009 purchase price. I was in this townhouse at an open house in 2009 […]

This 2-bedroom brick ranch at 5646 N. Nottingham in Old Norwood Park recently came on the market. It is just 1075 square feet but has a full basement. Built in 1949 on a 50×100.5 lot, it has a side drive with a 1-car garage. It looks to be an estate sale, as I couldn’t find […]

  We last chattered about this top floor 2 bedroom at 3705 N. Paulina in the Southport neighborhood of Lakeview in October 2011. See our prior chatter here. Many of you thought it was overpriced and would sell under $300,000 but some of you thought the neighborhood was great and that it would still sell […]

I’ve heard from many of you recently about multiple offers on properties all over the city, from condos in Bucktown to single family homes in Portage Park. This 2-bedroom at 4627 N. Magnolia in Uptown came on the market on February 15, 2012. Allegedly, there are multiple offers on it, although it hasn’t been marked as […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 3526 N. Marshfield in Lakeview just came on the market. The listing describes it as a “historic prohibition era home once owned by a local celeb.” (Bonus points for anyone who knows who that “local celeb” is. Hint: she sold the house in 1994 and you’ve seen her on […]

We’ve chattered about this vintage 2-bedroom at 1024 W. Armitage in Lincoln Park several times over the past year. The last time we chattered about it, in December 2011, it had been re-listed as a bank owned unit for not much more than the 1998 price at $389,000. See our prior chatter here. But it […]

This 5-bedroom vintage unit at 2344 N. Lincoln Park West across the street from Lincoln Park recently came on the market. Built in 1916, the listing describes it as a “Beaux Arts Beauty.” It commands the entire floor of a 6-unit building with 4 exposures, including Lincoln Park and the lake front. The building has […]

This 5-bedroom modern construction single family home at 336 W. Wisconsin in Lincoln Park burst onto the market in June of 2011 to much publicity because part of the movie The Fugitive, with Harrison Ford, was filmed in it. 10 months later, it is still available and has been reduced $251,000 in that time. Built […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 44 E. Elm in the Gold Coast came on the market in early February 2012 and was quickly reduced $300,000 to $4.2 million. Originally built in 1881 on a 17×105 lot, the listing says it was “completely rebuilt” in 2010. It now has a modern interior, including a massive […]