A 4-Bedroom Vintage Brick Bungalow for $350,000: 7609 S. Clyde in the South Shore
This 4-bedroom vintage brick bungalow at 7609 S. Clyde in the South Shore came on the market in February 2021.
Built in 1921 on a larger than standard Chicago lot of 30×125, it has a 2-car garage.
The house went into foreclosure after the housing bubble and was bank owned in 2014.
It was updated for the 2015 sale.
It has the features buyers look for including hardwood floors on the main level.
The house has an open concept first floor with a “gourmet” kitchen with white cabinets, a tile backsplash, granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances and a kitchen island.
There’s a full finished basement with a bathroom.
The second level has the primary bedroom, a second bedroom and a full bathroom.
It has a privacy fence.
It apparently does not have central air.
The South Shore is located near the University of Chicago, Hyde Park and the soon-to-be-built Obama Presidential Library which will be built in Woodlawn.
This house has come on the market at $350,000, or $115,000 above the 2015 purchase price of $235,000.
Will it get the premium at a time when buyers want single family homes?
Tina Hollins at Real People Realty has the listing. See the pictures, and floor plan, here.
7609 S Clyde: 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 3445 square feet, bungalow
- Sold in October 2001 for $145,000
- Lis pendens foreclosure filed in June 2010
- Bank owned in June 2014
- Sold in November 2014 “as is” for $51,500
- Sold in July 2015 for $235,000
- Currently listed at $350,000
- Taxes of $3348
- No central air
- 2-car garage
- 30×125 lot
- Bedroom #1: 30×15 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 12×21 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 12×10 (main floor)
- Bedroom #4: 11×10 (main floor)
- Kitchen: 27×12 (main floor)
- Living room: 23×23 (main floor)
- Dining room: 19×10 (main floor)
- Den: 8×10 (main floor)
- Office: 9×7 (second floor)
- Laundry room: 12×10 (basement)
- Recreation room: 12×10 (basement)
- Family room: 20×20 (basement)
“ This house has come on the market at $350,000, or $115,000 above the 2015 purchase price of $235,000.”
They’ve also remodeled,
Not under $300k and no CA
“Obama Presidential Library”
Have they changed what they are building?
“Bedroom #3: 12×10 (main floor)
Bedroom #4: 11×10 (main floor)”
Where the other main floor bedroom hiding? I see one bedroom per floor.
If there isn’t radiant floor under the tile in the basement [narrator: there isn’t], that basement will suck as a everyday bedroom more than most basements do.
The main floor bedroom would make a great office.
Nice space for a couple with part-time kids. Needed a pop-top like the two to the south to be a legit family home.
“They’ve also remodeled,”
Looks like the 235k sale in 2015 included the remodel.
“If there isn’t radiant floor under the tile in the basement [narrator: there isn’t], that basement will suck as a everyday bedroom more than most basements do.”
Speaking of which, where are the mechanicals?
“Looks like the 235k sale in 2015 included the remodel.”
Range (at a minimum) is new, Carpet seam at the top floor landing looks new and poorly done, paint looks fresh.
Not a gut rehab, but there was some work done post ’15 sale
“where are the mechanicals?”
In the basement room with the (for some reason) bi-fold door–I’d guess.
“In the basement room with the (for some reason) bi-fold door–I’d guess.”
I would guess that as well except, I would expect there would be a louvered door for combustion air for Heat & Hot H20 (Yeah they probably have FA intake coming into the closet) and its 3′ clear inside. not going to be any fun w/ repairs
The drain outside of the room is odd as well
“I would expect there would be a louvered door for combustion air”
Haha. No one who is using $40 doors isn’t sweating those sorts of details.
The location of the return duct in the basement clarifies the layout, too–furnace/air-handler is to the left, and hot water tank to the right.
Room almost certainly has a glassblock window, like in the main room, and the FA comes from leaving the vent window open year-round.
There seem to be, no, there are, a lot of flips and appreciation in South Shore, Woodlawn and surrounding areas (probably because Douglas and Washington Park are/have been getting too expensive). And the OPC is being featured in real estate ads even more than it used to be.
Prices going up in the bracket where people are most dependent on mortgages during an extended period of the lowest interest rates ever historically? Brackets where people qualify for stimulus and other incentives?!? Brackets where household savings rates are increasing dramatically because there’s nothing else to do?! Ya don’t say? 🙂
“They’ve also remodeled,”
Remodel was done in 2015.
South Shore is hot. Lots of the flipper/renovations I was watching have already gone under contract.
You’re not finding many remodeled houses under $300,000. Anywhere in the city of Chicago. Still can get the small houses of like 1500-1800 square feet under $300k.
Hard to find though.
“ Remodel was done in 2015.”
So they’ve left the scratch film on the range for 6 years?
“ You’re not finding many remodeled houses under $300,000.”
No shit?
Yikes, would never want to in that hood. Place is decent though, but if I could only afford to live here, I would go burbs with a family…
“No shit?”
Yeah- prices are rising too rapidly now. The era of the $200,000 middle class home in Chicago is fading away.
Middle class is now $300,000 to $400,000 in most parts of the city.
“Place is decent though, but if I could only afford to live here, I would go burbs with a family…”
People who live in this neighborhood tend to work in this neighborhood, or nearby.
So you’re “going to the burbs with a family” if you work at the University of Chicago?
Nope. You are not.