4-Bedroom Gut Rehab Duplex Down with Wine Room in the Gold Coast: 17 E Division

This 4-bedroom duplex down at 17 E. Division in the Gold Coast came on the market in August 2022.

This building was built in 1900 and has 6 units and outdoor parking behind the building.

This unit was on the market earlier this year, was bought in February 2022 and had a complete renovation.

It has white oak herringbone hardwood floors on the main level and wide-plank white oak on the lower level.

There is custom millwork, arches and built-ins and 2 fireplaces, one in the living room and one in the lower level’s “second living room.”

The unit now has a “chef-caliber” kitchen with custom white oak cabinets, a large island that can seat 4 with quartzite countertops and waterfall edge. It has Dacor paneled refrigerator and freezer, Cove dishwasher, Wolf range, with Best hood with fresh air return and a Wolf microwave.

The main level has a powder room with custom marble sink and 2 bedrooms, including the primary suite.

The primary suite has a walk-in-closet and en suite bathroom with heated dolomite floors, dual vanities, matte black free standing tub and walk-in-shower.

There’s a new staircase to the lower level which has exposed brick and beams.

It has a recessed wine room and wet bar with Subzero refrigerator. There’s also two more bedrooms and a full bathroom.

This unit has central air, washer/dryer in the unit and one outdoor parking space behind the building.

This building is near the shops and restaurants of the Rush Street and Division Street corridor and in the heart of the Gold Coast.

Buyers love “new” because they don’t want to renovate anything.

It sold in February 2022 for $524,000 and has come back on the market at $1.3 million.

Will this “new” property sell quickly?

Vincent Anzalone and Brad Soltwisch at Dream Town have the listing. You can see the pictures and floor plan here.

If you are a Redfin subscriber, you can also see pictures of the original unit before the renovation in the pricing timeline.

If you want to see it in person, there will be an open house on Saturday, August 13 from 12 pm to 2 pm.

Unit #1E: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, no square footage listed, duplex down

  • Sold in 1985 but no price listed
  • Sold in February 2022 for $524,000
  • Currently listed after the renovation at $1.3 million (includes outdoor parking space behind the building)
  • Assessments of $589 a month (includes exterior maintenance, scavenger, parking)
  • Taxes of $11,463
  • Central Air
  • Washer/dryer in the unit
  • 2 fireplaces
  • Bedroom #1: 11×16 (main level)
  • Bedroom #2: 12×10 (main level)
  • Bedroom #3: 18×13 (lower level)
  • Bedroom #4: 12×11 (lower level)
  • Living room: 15×16 (main level)
  • Dining room: 10×13 (main level)
  • Kitchen: 15×14 (main level)
  • Recreation Room: 22×19 (lower level)
  • Walk-in-closet: 4×19 (main level)
  • Laundry: 8×3 (lower level)

 

16 Responses to “4-Bedroom Gut Rehab Duplex Down with Wine Room in the Gold Coast: 17 E Division”

  1. Is this a Windy City Rehab property?

    Why put the diffusers on when trying to sell a +$1MM property

    How can the LL bedrooms be counted? One has no windows and the other isnt a legal egress

    The 2nd BR on the main floor is terrible, can get around the bed as configured and the Dining room is terrible

    Good luck to the flipper

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  2. “The 2nd BR on the main floor is terrible”

    So is the first bedroom–which only has a window in the closet, which can only count bc there is no door on the closet. And the closet is too narrow to be fully utilized.

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  3. 1.3 million for a duplex down in a location that utterly sucks lol… good luck

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  4. They’ve photoshopped the hell out of the listing pictures

    JFC the hood is completely horrible
    – Nice gap in the ceiling
    – nice 2X’s I/S the hood. I’m sure that they’re non-com

    Wonder if the kitchen cabinets are white or powder blue? The cabinet trim boards arent installed in the 3D, yet are finished in the photos

    The kitchen window is a WTF

    Great placement for the LR grille blowing right on the couch

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  5. “finished in the photos”

    Then what’s that board on top of the tall cabinets/refrigerator? The one that extends past on both sides.

    The hood…has to be taken as a sign of the overall quality of the work.

    When a renovated home shows you what it is, believe it the first time.

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  6. “the LR grille blowing right on the couch”

    that’s the return, right?

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  7. “that’s the return, right?

    Yeah – I only saw the supply on the other wall. I didn’t see the supply 5′ away under the planter. Still its a horrible design due to blockage from the sofa and proximity to 2 supplies, going to totally short circuit the airflow

    “Then what’s that board on top of the tall cabinets/refrigerator? The one that extends past on both sides.”

    Looks like a piece of wall cap or trim.

    The crown at the uppers looks like shit and I cant tell WTF is on the hood. Doesnt look like any film over SS I’ve seen before. Gyp and a terrible plaster job with simple exhaust fan?

    This rehab has been Sabrina’d

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  8. $1.3 million to live partially underground in an unremarkable building on a busy street near noisy bars? Wow. I am underwhelmed. There are far better places to live on the Gold Coast, maybe not with 4 bedrooms, but with 3. I guess if you desperately need 4, maybe you’d look at this one, but otherwise…

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  9. Am I the only one who kind of likes it? It’s a little awkward layout but it’s an over 100 year old building and the location is better than people think. Division street is not the disgusting crap show it used to be and slowly cleaning up. Traffic isnt terrible on this stretch of Division either. It’s a lot of space for the Gold Coast. I could see 1.15 or 1.2.

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  10. Rarely have I seen such a craptastic layout in a unit listed for $1.3 million. The finishes are nice but the kitchen construction looks shoddy (wtf is above the cabinets? and that hood is trash). $999k and it sells.

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  11. It’s kind of dark, and that hood over the stove is total garbage. On the 3D walk through, you can see the wood frame. Hopefully it wasn’t finished at the time of the photos.The kitchen wall tile/backsplash leave a bit to be desired. The powder room immediately next to the dining room is not ideal.

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  12. “1.3 million for a duplex down in a location that utterly sucks lol… good luck”

    What’s so bad about the location? I actually think it’s pretty nice right here. You are close enough to restaurants and the Jewel but you’re on the quiet part of this street. Few cars on this part of the street, as someone else said. It’s tree lined and across the street from 2 historic buildings on Astor.

    I wish the old bars the next block over would call it a day. But now that they have built The Gild apartments on the corner of Division and State, that has helped. A Sweetgreen is going in there. Brown Bag is going in across the street. Slowly, Division is changing. Eventually, the owners of Mothers will sell and another apartment building will go in there too.

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  13. “maybe not with 4 bedrooms, but with 3”

    Strangely, this place only has two rooms that I would consider decent bedrooms at this price point in Chicago.

    The 2d bedroom upstairs is too small/awkward to be a full time bedroom (**at this price point**) except for a toddler, and the rear “bedroom” downstairs has no light and thus is not “legally” a bedroom.

    Yes, it’s big, and so would comp to true 4 bed places that way.

    But look at this recent sale:

    https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/10-E-Schiller-St-60610/unit-2E/home/14125822

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  14. Or this one:

    https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/45-E-Division-St-60610/home/22812515

    Who thinks this place is worth 90% of either of those?

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  15. As for something currently available, this one is a fair bit more expensive bc of the much higher HOA, but I’d have to try to make it work, if I had to pick between only the feature and this:

    https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/10-E-Schiller-St-60610/unit-1E/home/177938921

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  16. This unit finally closed (after being relisted) for 940,000 cash

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