Crib Chatter

This 2-bedroom second floor greystone unit at 1737 W. Melrose in West Lakeview came on the market in April 2012. It is rare to find a vintage greystone this far west in Lakeview. Most of them are near the lake front. The building is also wider than the normal Chicago lot at 37.5×125. This unit […]

This 2-bedroom penthouse in The Commodore at 550 W. Surf in Lakeview comes with an illustrious past. The prior listing said the living/dining room was the old ballroom and this tidbit from the Upper Bracket column in the Chicago Tribune from 2003 confirms it. On the sixth and top floor of the Commodore building, 550 W. Surf St., […]

This 3-bedroom townhouse at 2122 W. Balmoral in the Bowmanville neighborhood of Lincoln Square came on the market in March 2012. (The picture is of the townhouse complex- with another unit that sold earlier this year.) It recently reduced $5,000. Built in 1988, the townhouse has the preferred layout with all 3 bedrooms on the second floor. […]

As many of you know, I normally don’t cover suburban properties but for a historic house like The Mundy House at 185 Michaux Road in Riverside, I will break my own rule. Built in 1868 and designed by William LaBaron Jenney, a Chicago architect who specialized in commercial structures and is now known as the […]

Last January, we chattered about this 1100 square foot 1-bedroom in 1414 N. Wells in Old Town. See our prior chatter here. It was listed for $369,000 plus $30,000 for the parking or $399,000. Nearly all of you thought the listing price was nuts. Here were some of your comments: Laura: “Very pricey. $250K is more like […]

When I originally took the picture of this 3-bedroom single family home at 1911 W. Berenice in North Center, I thought it might be under contract before I even had a chance to post on it. It was, after all, a single family home with a garage in the Bell School District listed for $545,000. But […]

Loft lovers will tell you there’s something about the Donohue Annex at 727 S. Dearborn in Printers Row. Located just south of The Donohue at 711 S. Dearborn, the Annex was added in 1913. It is a concrete building (versus The Donohue’s timber.) It also still has the original elevator in the lobby (worth checking out […]

This condo-hotel unit at The Raffaello at 201 E. Delaware in the Gold Coast has been on and off the market since October 2011. The listing says it is bank owned. The condo-hotels were all the rage at the height of the housing boom. You own the hotel room which has a private, locked closet where you can […]

This 2-bedroom loft in the Casablanca Lofts at 70 E. 18th in the South Loop came on the market in March 2012. In that time it has been reduced $15,000. This is a loft by name only as it doesn’t have the authentic features loft buyers look for which include timber or concrete ceilings, exposed […]

This 3-bedroom in the luxury high rise at 55 E. Erie in River North just came on the market. It is bank owned. The listing says it has 2028 square feet but the room sizes are estimated. From the pictures, it appears the kitchen and bathrooms are intact. The kitchen has granite counter tops, maples […]