Priced Out of a Lincoln Park SFH? The 3-Bedroom Luxury Condo at 1625 N. Burling
This 3-bedroom condo in 1625 N. Burling in East Lincoln Park came on the market in July 2020.
Built in 2017, this building has 13 units, an elevator, and attached heated garage parking.
If you rode on the Brown Line to downtown in 2017, you saw this building being constructed from the subway window right near the curve between the Armitage and Sedgwick stops.
This is a re-sale of a second floor corner unit with floor to ceiling windows with south and east exposures.
It has the new construction luxury finishes including what the listing calls a “Chef’s kitchen” with white Archisesto cabinetry, a 6-burner Wolf stove, Subzero refrigerator/freezer, a wine cooler, quartz counter tops with a waterfall finish on the large kitchen island and a Culligan water filtration system.
The primary suite (as the realtors are no longer using “master” as the designation but are now using “primary”- I will be changing my lingo on this site as well) has a walk-in closet, and an en suite bath with a double vanity and a walk-in steam shower.
The outdoor space includes a 30×8 covered terrace with a gas line and a Savant audio system for TV, surround sound both inside and on the terrace.
This unit has the features buyers look for including central air, a full-size washer/dryer and 2 attached heated garage spaces.
Listed at $1.245 million in July 2020, that’s $161,000 above the 2017 sales price of $1.084 million.
If you’re priced out of a single family home in East Lincoln Park, is this a good alternative?
Susie Pearson at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Unit #204: 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, no square footage listed
- Sold in February 2017 for $1,084,000
- Originally listed in July 2020 for $1.245 million
- Currently still listed at $1.245 million (includes 2 attached heated garage parking spaces)
- Assessments of $614 a month (includes security system, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $19,580
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 15×10
- Bedroom #2: 11×10
- Bedroom #3: 11×10
- Living room: 18×11
- Dining room: 15×9
- Kitchen: 10×16
- Laundry room: 6×5
- Walk-in-closet: 7×5
- Terrace: 30×8
That’s a pricey 1,800 square feet.
This place is the textbook definition of milquetoast.
You’d think at some point owners would get tired of seeing the exact same island over the last 18+ years.
The only positive is the 2 parking stalls.
The MBath is pretty much the same size as the 2 Bedrooms
If I was dead set that I needed to live in ELP, at $250k + $7k/mo I’d rent for a couple of years and then try and swing a SFH.
East Lincoln Park? This place is closer to the river than it is to the lakefront/zoo/park. It’s barely closer to the lake than my current residence.
“If you’re priced out of a single family home in East Lincoln Park, is this a good alternative?”
Nope.
It’s in Mayer, so it simply cannot be the “heart” of ELP.
For a little more, you can buy this, with a similar aesthetic and a whole lot more space:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1856-N-Sheffield-Ave-60614/home/13351719
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1856-N-Sheffield-Ave-60614/home/13351719
House has been sold 3X in 3 years
The current owner is out $150k for 18 Mo – Ouch
Is the alley living that bad?
Should be up for sale or sold 3X in the last 3 years
Someone must like this kind of architecture and the one on North Clark you featured last week. Otherwise why would it be so popular. Maybe I’m an old fogie, but I just can’t see how buildings like this will ever be loved and cherished.
I also can’t see this as ELP. Burling is way west of Halsted, and it’s a very long walk to the park and lake from here. If the seller is saying ELP, they’re being deliberately misleading.
Correct – I mean Burling is near Halsted (one block east). I mixed it up with another B street (Bissell). Anyway, it’s still not ELP in my book.
Looking at interior now, and it seems cheerful and bright, which you don’t always get. Obviously dated, not offensively so. But based on location and size, the price is LOL.
It feels like they’re pricing it the corner of Webster and Hudson, when it’s really over near the border line between LP and where Cabrini used to be, and still close to some public housing and a lot of cheap-looking 1960s urban renewal townhomes that run along North Avenue. Not a prime location at all.
“Obviously dated”
it’s 3 years old, and they’re still building new stuff that looks basically the same.
yes, it’s Arch Digest “dated”, but that’s pretty typical in 2d floor condos in ‘neighborhood’ Chicago.
“Obviously dated, not offensively so.”
I don’t know how it could be “dated” at just 3 years old.
“Correct – I mean Burling is near Halsted (one block east). I mixed it up with another B street (Bissell). Anyway, it’s still not ELP in my book.”
I’ve been told on this blog many, many times that a property east of Halsted means it is in East Lincoln Park.
So that’s what it is.
“East Lincoln Park? This place is closer to the river than it is to the lakefront/zoo/park. It’s barely closer to the lake than my current residence.”
It is east of Halsted which has always been the cut off for “East Lincoln Park.”
So, yes, it does qualify to be called that.
OK – point taken about ELP. It’s still a pretty long walk to Lincoln Park from here.
Halsted is a lot closer to the lake over by Belmont than it is at North.
I retract my “dated” comment. I like the interior.
“point taken about ELP”
It shouldn’t be. This place is closer to the river than the Park.
The contention on the CC, wrt Halsted, is that nothing west of Halsted can be called ELP. The converse is not true–being east of Halsted is necessary, but not sufficient.
LPHS ain’t in ELP–it’s smack in the middle of LP. This place is due south of the western annex of LPHS. It simply is not ELP, much less the “heart” of ELP.
Noise from North Avenue has to be prevalent here. I watched this eyesore get built (c’mon this thing is FUGLY on the outside and there is nothing you can do about it as a unit owner). I got tagged several times while under construction.
To address a comment about the “urban renewal” affordable housing nearby on North and on Larrabbee – – mostly seniors. Very quiet. Some of the best maintained affordable units in the City.
I just cannot get over how eastern-block ugly this building is however. Really an unrefined exterior design….like a lot of “faux modern” crapola being built in the City these days for people with money but no aesthetic standards.
*it* got tagged