How Much Will You Pay for a 1-Bedroom Condo in Logan Square? 2520 N. Willets
This 1-bedroom at 2520 N. Willets in Logan Square came on the market in August 2018.
This building was constructed in 2007 and has 8 units. (It’s the building on the right side of the picture.)
This is a first floor unit with a street facing terrace.
The listing says it has a newly updated bathroom.
The kitchen has light wood cabinets, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances.
The bedroom doesn’t appear to have a window, however, it does have unique direct garage access (see the pictures.)
This unit has an attached 1-car garage.
It also has the other features buyers look for including central air and washer/dryer in the unit.
At $299,000, is the starter one bedroom in Logan Square equivalent to that in other trendy neighborhoods like Lakeview, Bucktown and Old Town?
Annie Schweitzer at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #1LN: 1 bedroom, 1 bath, no square footage listed
- Sold in June 2007 for $232,900 (per Redfin)
- Originally listed in August 2018 for $299,000
- Currently still listed at $299,000 (includes 1-car garage)
- Assessments of $175 a month (includes scavenger)
- Taxes of $4048
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Bedroom: 15×11
- Living room: 14×18
- Kitchen: 8×10
Thats a lot of money to access the garage thru your bedroom.
This is the type of place that gets crushed when there’s a market correction as the buyer has a bad case of FOMO.
Two Logan Square homes in close proximity featured on CC…I guess we know where Sabrina spent her Labor Day Weekend. 🙂
I guess Logan Square is now a part of the green zone?
as for the unit itself… its pretty small (lack of sqft listed gives it away and some tricky photography hides it)
I wanna see inside the house just to the north of this building, how cool does that place look
Please tell me that I’m just imagining that the garage is off the bedroom.
That garage off of the bedroom is ridiculously weird.
I don’t mind Logan Square compared to Lincoln Square or North Center. At least it’s close to the expressway. It takes me an excessively long time to get to the other neighborhoods, but the drive to Logan Square is easy.
I think Logan Square prices vary a ton, but right around the square and near the L is at a premium (and I think green zone).
Garage off the bedroom is the craziest thing, but still, attached garage has its appeal. I’m wondering how hard the turn into it is given the size of the entry. Good location (if you want LS), low assessments, but quite small, and I wonder about closet space looks like (the garage is some storage, at least). To me it looks older than 2007 style-wise, very similar to the late 90s/2000 era places that popped up all over Southport.
It used to be said that you always go for a 2-bedroom because of resale. Is that no longer such a concern? (I checked for 2-bedrooms in the area in the price range and few seemed to have parking, so that would be an issue. The only 2 bed with parking (outdoors) for the same price anywhere near the location was https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/3142-W-Belden-Ave-60647/unit-2/home/18950800 — higher assessments but still okay, vintage, but not charming vintage, also quite small, 1 bath).
I know someone in a three flat who has the garage off the bedroom. The kitchen/living rooms are in the front. The bathrooms are in the middle, and the bedrooms are in the back. The back door is in the master bedroom, which leads to a covered porch passage to the three car garage.
He’s on the first floor, so the garage it about 8 feet from his bedroom. I don’t think he’s complaining, because it’s pretty nice to have garage parking in his neighborhood.
I would not want to schlep groceries or whatever from the garage through the bedroom.
It’s always the same thing with the corporate whities following around the artist whities and gentrifying the place. It’s almost like the corporate whities don’t understand the artist whities are socialists and want to take their stuff.
Logan Square is hot now but it is a large area. And it will get hit in the next correction big time and revert back to the neighborhood it was. Once the artists leave it can’t hold it’s own as a gentrified neighborhood it’s just trendy for the time being. Schools are probably poor too.
I checked, and it does not appear that Joe’s has nickel beer Wednesdays right now.
Where-o-where is the Wednesday Happy Hour that brought out angry Bobbo?
“I guess we know where Sabrina spent her Labor Day Weekend.”
Bingo!
“I guess Logan Square is now a part of the green zone?”
I don’t know. Is it?
A realtor told me that he has clients who want to buy in Logan Square but there’s no inventory so they are looking in Andersonville instead. Is Andersonville the GZ?
To me, the GZ is a neighborhood that the Big Ten grads want to move to when they come to Chicago.
My knowledge is probably based on old discussions on this blog and commentary elsewhere inspired by that (http://www.chicagonow.com/mysteries-of-life/2014/03/the-green-zone-litmus-test/), but I thought it was broader than where Big Ten grads would immediately gravitate to. That, but also where they go if they want to be a bit more trendy but not too adventurous or have lived in Chicago a few years or get married/have kids/want more space, and would unquestionably include Andersonville. Basically, safe, safe place to buy (will hold value), convenient, not too out of the way for even more sheltered city residents to visit on occasion, easy grocery and other shopping, good amount of restaurants, coffee shops, book stores, walkable, easy access to public transportation/ideally the L, perhaps some nice farmers markets, good housing stock, lots of neighbors who have similar jobs/backgrounds even if there’s some diversity, good schools (elementary, at least) are a plus but less important if it’s more of a pre-kids area.
Logan Square around the square seems to fit these days.
Its a beautiful unit but I could not live on first floor..someone could walk right in and rob you !!!
I don’t think the ugly kids with tons of tattoos and poor fashion sense are big ten grads… but they also aren’t gang banging thugs either… tough call on whether its a green zone area… I wouldn’t call it that… area is pretty rough still as you get away from milwaukee ave and go further west
let the debate begin
I’d argue that Logan Square is greenzone. It may not be on the radar of a plain vanilla finance/PE bro rocking a vest and khakis, but it is a popular hood and has most of the amenities the urban class tends to look for these days.
I think West Town/Uk Village would be considered greenzone these days.
I’d say Rogers Park, Albany Park, Pilsen, Humbolt Park, Edgewater & Uptown (Outside of A’ville borders) are not quite greenzone, but not necessarily bad areas either.
“I don’t think the ugly kids with tons of tattoos and poor fashion sense are big ten grads…”
I can assure you these aren’t the people dropping 300k on a 1 bedroom.
I think Ukie Village is definitely GZ but that’s 1/2 square mile. LS is much bigger and there are parts that are GZ and parts that definitely aren’t. This is one of the GZ parts. For some reason those corporate whities like cachet/”authenticity” in their neighborhood names and this part is right off Milwaukee/GZ.
That being said its a very high traffic area right near Milwaukee and the Logan stop and bars. And it’s on the first floor. I couldn’t imagine smart single females living here given all that so the market is very limited.
“I’d argue that Logan Square is greenzone.”
I’m probably repeating myself, but I’m not sure all of it is, but I think the part near the Square and L is.
I know plenty of 30-something lawyers who aren’t really trend-setting types who are living there today. (Some of them went to Big10 schools, the first couple who come to mind went to Northwestern Law.)
“I’d say Rogers Park, Albany Park, Pilsen, Humbolt Park, Edgewater & Uptown (Outside of A’ville borders) are not quite greenzone, but not necessarily bad areas either.”
Agree, except that I think Edgewater more broadly is, at least the streets with houses. During my recent house hunt there was huge overlap between people you’d see at open houses both in Edgewater and Lincoln Square and I talked to a lot of people looking both places and sometimes North Center. Yes, Lakewood-Balmoral is the most desirable/expensive for a SFH in Edgewater, but I don’t think it’s limited to that area.
The other areas are not GZ.
“Its a beautiful unit but I could not live on first floor..someone could walk right in and rob you !!!”
Let us hope that most women on this site understand they shouldn’t be buying or renting a first floor apartment.
So you only want men to get robbed?
People do realize that the term “green zone” is racist, right? It’s been bothering me for awhile that the term keeps getting thrown around: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/05/racism_in_real_estate_landlords_redlining_housing_values_and_discrimination.html
“A “green” neighborhood was white, affluent, Anglo-Saxon, and appropriately Protestant. A “blue” one had less desirable whites—Jews, Irish, and Italians—but was stable and upwardly mobile. A “yellow” one had undesirable, often working-class whites, and a “red” one was predominantly black or Mexican, regardless of wealth or class. And in these “redlined” areas, loans were either expensive or nonexistent, forcing families to rely on speculators and private sales by unscrupulous homeowners.”
“People do realize that the term “green zone” is racist, right? It’s been bothering me for awhile that the term keeps getting thrown around:”
Jenny- the colors you cited are just that, the colors. They don’t include the word “zone.”
Green Zone, is, I’m afraid, a Crib Chatter exclusive (at least as far as American residential real estate is concerned).
For new readers, Green Zone been around a long, long time on this site and refers to the War in Iraq actually.
In Baghdad, the most secure part of the city where the coalition forces and now the Iraqi Army patrolled, was called the “Green Zone.” It was considered the safest part of the city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Zone
Readers on Crib Chatter started to refer to certain “prime” neighborhoods of Chicago as the “Green Zone” and it stuck. These were the most preferred and safest neighborhoods for buyers. Which neighborhoods are actually in it has been the subject of much discussion on this site.
It has historically been Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Old Town, Gold Coast, Streeterville, River North, Loop, Printers Row, South Loop, West Loop, Bucktown, Wicker Park. Others are in dispute: North Center, Roscoe Village, Andersonville, Ukrainian Village, Logan Square
“So you only want men to get robbed?”
It’s not about being robbed JohnnyU (this is what men don’t get.) It’s about being raped or killed.
Women should never live in a first floor apartment.
women should be free to live wherever the hell they want without the fear of getting robbed or raped or the ever so rare murder
I toured this unit a couple weeks ago. Overall, this area should be considered GZ with the amount of BigTen housing being built (glass & concrete condos) such as MiCa and whatever is going in across from The Owl.
Pluses:
Great low-traffic street.
Nice outdoor area.
Updated and well-kept. Open floorplan is nice.
Shared garage with other unit but with a good amount of additional storage.
Minuses:
Yeah, it’s small. Good for a single person who works a lot of hours or travels.
In-unit storage is not a lot.
Garage access through bedroom is a bit strange but creative way of hiding it (mirror).
“women should be free to live wherever the hell they want without the fear of getting robbed or raped or the ever so rare murder”
Sure. In an ideal world. But that’s not the reality and has never been the reality.
We should be able to walk to work from the subway without being attacked as well, but recent events have shown that’s not the reality either.
That’s why women have to be smart and not live in first floor units.
Is the reason that men are victims of crime more often because they live in 1st floor units? lol
“Is the reason that men are victims of crime more often because they live in 1st floor units? lol”
No. They are victims because they think they can’t be.
On my college campus, it was men walking around by themselves who were mugged at 2 am, not women. We took the safety bus which would pick you up when called.
“women should be free to live wherever the hell they want without the fear of getting robbed or raped or the ever so rare murder”
Not as “ever so rare” as you might think. I remember being a wee lad at 18 and arriving on campus applying for a job. The manager said one of the coworkers wouldn’t be working that semester at all due to a personal issue, but still kept on the payroll perhaps for the next semester, so curious I had asked “All semester?”
At which point the boss said yes she was friends with Chris Maier and turned over the campus newspaper showing the front page with the story about his death. Sixteen kills for that serial killer here with seven more claimed in Mexico.
Heck in my highschool apparently some guy that others knew (not me) turned out to be a killer. Drugs were involved.
I also personally knew a coworker who was a victim of a murder-suicide but that was not a random stranger.
Its certainly something most people don’t like to talk about and is the opposite of light conversation, but I’d bet in your social circle someone knows someone who was intentionally murdered or the murderer.
The good thing is none of these had anything to do with what neighborhood they lived in. The only precaution is avoid people on drugs and areas where drugs are a problem (not the GZ).
Sold! $280k, last month.
This place is a shoebox. The area is still rougher than around Logan Blvd. and the Square, but it’s rife with hipsters. I’d live there only for the proximity to Bang Bang Pie Shop!
Too close to Armitage and California for my tastes, as things are sketchy in the south west quadrant of that intersection.
Thank you, Sabrina, for getting into Logan Square, after such a long hiatus. I’d love to hear your takes on MiCa, the “L” building, and those new stupid “micro-apartments” on Cali south of Fullerton. Then, you might want to look at new home sales in the past 2 years, 2400-2800 N, between Western and California.