This 6-bedroom single family home at 1345 W. Wolfram in West Lakeview came on the market in January 2017. If it looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it in 2015. You can see our chatter here. However, the house actually did sell in 2015, just a few months after we chattered about it. But […]
This 6-bedroom custom single family home at 550 W. Oakdale in East Lakeview first came on the market in May 2010. If it looks familiar, that’s because we’ve chattered about it twice before, with the last time in March 2013. Back then, it was listed for over $3 million and we debated whether this East […]
This 2-bedroom in the Plaza 440 at 440 N. Wabash in River North just came on the market. It’s on a low floor so there are no views but the listing says it was just remodeled. It has hardwood floors throughout and LED lighting. The kitchen has white cabinets, quartz counter tops, a blacksplash and […]
Winter has held on in Chicago as March home sales took a tumble (the above picture is from spring 2012). From the Illinois Association of Realtors: The city of Chicago saw year-over-year home sales decline 10.1 percent with 2,290 sales in March, compared to 2,546 a year ago. The median price of a home in […]
This 1-bedroom loft in the Newport Lofts at 1122 W. Newport in Southport recently came on the market. Newport Lofts is an industrial building with 23 units, a parking garage, and exterior parking which was converted into condos in 1989. This top floor corner unit has 2 walls of windows, a wood burning fireplace, exposed […]
This 3-bedroom in 9 W. Walton in the Gold Coast just came on the market. If you recall, this is a luxury new construction luxury building with 66 units. It’s the building in which Citadel CEO Ken Griffith recently bought several units, including the penthouse. The building has been popular with buyers and is basically sold out. […]
This 1-bedroom duplex up in the Ontario Street Lofts at 411 W. Ontario in River North just came on the market. If this loft looks familiar, that’s because we chattered about it in October 2015 when the listing called it a “White Palace” because the interiors were mostly completely white except for the timber ceilings […]
This 3-bedroom in the Pencil Factory Lofts at 1800 W. Roscoe in Roscoe Village just came on the market. Recently, we had been chattering about the West Lakeview and Roscoe Village neighborhoods and how they went from middle class to luxury since the 1990s. On the Roscoe Village Neighborhood web site, it lists the conversion […]
[Golub & Co and CIM Group rendering] Since the Tribune Tower, and the adjacent lot were sold, the Chicago design community has been waiting for an announcement on the plans for the prominent Michigan Avenue/Streeterville site. Yesterday, Golub & Company and CIM Group, announced their plans for the site at a community meeting which was […]