Crib Chatter

We’ve chattered about the distress sales like this 2-bedroom loft in the Paramount Lofts at 1645 W. Ogden in the West Loop before. The Paramount Lofts has 206 units so it’s taking awhile to work through all the foreclosures. This loft had a lis pendens filed in 2008 and only become bank owned in March […]

I almost forgot about the January home sales. Everyone knows it was a hot, hot, hot start to the year in Chicago. From the Illinois Association of Realtors: The city of Chicago saw a 32.2 percent year-over-year home sales increase in January 2013 with 1,485 sales, up from 1,123 in January 2012. The condo market in […]

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom Colonial Revival at 6270 N. Louise in Historic Old Edgebrook in June 2012. See our prior chatter here. At the time, it was listed at $719,000 and sold in September 2012 at $685,000. Just 6 months later, the house has come back on the market $40,000 higher. It doesn’t appear […]

This 2-bedroom in Stonegate Terrace at 615 W. Deming in East Lincoln Park recently came on the market. The building was built in 1999 and has an elevator. The unit was last listed about 2 years ago but didn’t sell. At 2100 square feet, the duplex up has a 2-story living room with a wall of […]

This 4-bedroom new construction contemporary at 4511 N. Wolcott in Lincoln Square came on the market January 2, 2013. It’s on an oversized lot measuring 25×152 and has a 2-car garage. Three of the four bedrooms are on the second floor and the fourth is on the main level. The lower level has a large […]

This 2-bedroom in City View Tower at 720 W. Randolph in the West Loop recently came on the market. It is in a very strategic location for those who are foodies. Not only are all the hot restaurants of Randolph Street just a few steps away but the intriguing French Market at the Ogilvie Train […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 1524 W. Oakdale in Lakeview came on the market last week. I’ve been told that it had several offers within the first 24 hours. I’ve also heard that demand to see it was so strong that there was simply an open house on Sunday for all interested parties and […]

This 2-bedroom duplex loft at 540 N. Lake Shore Drive in Streeterville just came on the market. If it looks familiar to some of you, that’s because we last chattered about it in September 2009. (The picture above is from the old 2009 listing.) See our prior chatter, and more pictures, here. Back then, it was […]

We last chattered about this top floor 3-bedroom at 920 W. Barry in Lakeview in April of 2012. See our prior chatter here. At that time, it had been on and off the market for 4 years and I asked if it would finally sell in 2012. The answer was “no.” But with the market […]

This 3-bedroom authentic loft in the Number 10 Lofts at 1040 W. Adams in the West Loop just came on the market. This building was converted into condo lofts at the height of the boom in 2006. It has authentic features that loft buyers look for including a lot of exposed brick and 12 foot […]