A 3-Bedroom Vintage Condo With All the Bells and Whistles: 729 W. Roscoe in Lakeview
This 3-bedroom top floor greystone unit at 729 W. Roscoe in Lakeview came on the market in March 2021.
I don’t know when the building was constructed as none of the listings states the year but it’s an older vintage greystone.
The building has 4 units and secured assigned parking.
The listing says the building got a new boiler and roof in 2019.
This top floor unit has 12 foot ceilings, a decorative fireplace, crown molding and several bay windows.
It has hardwood floors throughout.
The unit has a separate dining room with bay windows and a family room.
The primary bedroom has a walk-in-closet and there is separate private storage in the building.
The eat-in kitchen has oak cabinets, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances.
The unit has a large, covered terrace.
It has all the features buyers look for including washer/dryer in the unit, spacepak a/c and an assigned parking space.
The listing says that the unit also got new, soundproof windows in 2017.
This property is near all the shops and restaurants of East Lakeview and is, according to the listing, in the Nettlehorst school district.
Listed at $474,500, does this unit check all the boxes for vintage lovers?
Mario Greco at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Unit #3: 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1500 square feet
- Sold in April 2000 for $290,000
- Sold in July 2006 for $375,000
- Sold in September 2013 for $367,500
- Sold in April 2017 for $425,000
- Originally listed in March 2021 for $474,500
- Currently still listed at $474,500 (includes assigned parking spot)
- Assessments of $295 a month (includes heat, exterior maintenance, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $7533
- Spacepak a/c
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Decorative fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 12×12
- Bedroom #2: 11×10
- Bedroom #3: 11×8
- Living room: 19×14
- Dining room: 10×10
- Family room: 14×12
- Kitchen: 12×11
- Laundry room: 5×5
- Walk-in-closet: 7×5
- Deck: 12×8
Overall very nice unit.
Though can’t imagine trying to entertain in a dining room that is about 50 feet from the kitchen.
I’d personally move the DR into the family room, The turret space is awesome and underutilized as a DR
“It has all the features buyers look for including washer/dryer in the unit, spacepak a/c and an assigned parking space.”
Buyers look for at least 2 Baths for a 3B, hell even a powder room would be a huge upgrade. This is going to make this difficult for todays buyer.
I’d personally move the DR into the family room
Or at least flip the living room / dining room space so that you can put a little reading nook in that turret, while still keeping a family room.
However, I’d probably turn the family room into a bedroom and turn the smallest bedroom into a bathroom.
Or just turn the smallest bedroom into a bathroom and have an awesome 2 bed apartment (purchase price plus reno wouldn’t put it out of line with other 2 bds in the area)
Our favorite Good ol ‘Sqft is just a number’ agent.
JohnnyU I think that layout is due to not wanting the noise from the TV an living room next to the bedroom. But I agree, move the dining room to the family room and the enjoy the light and view from the bay windows.
Real nice place, at not a bad price to reflect the 1 bathroom. The kitchen and bathrooms need a slight punch up, but the layout ain’t bad. Not a fan of the small fridge blocking a small portion of the window. Idk about you guys but with spacepak I would need a ceiling fan in that kitchen, especially being a top floor unit. Also since its 1 bath, plan on redoing the bathroom before you move in, you will thank me later.
It’s a little surprising to me that although all the woodwork in this place has already been painted white, it would be a relatively easy upgrade to paint the kitchen cabinets and install the fake marble counters that are all the rage…
Looks like a bathroom could potentially be squeezed into the current Master WIC / laundry area since you have plumbing right there for the laundry.
In the kitchen, could add function with a high-top table (more prep space), with stools that tuck underneath.
Or just turn the smallest bedroom into a bathroom and have an awesome 2 bed apartment (purchase price plus reno wouldn’t put it out of line with other 2 bds in the area)
Was looking to verify this statement about purchase price plus reno, and got sidetracked going down a rabbit hole looking at all the properties featured on cribchatter in the last month.
Properties fall into 2 categories:
1) Lakeview/Southport/Lincoln Park/Old Town
2) South Loop/West Loop/River North/Gold Coast
Virtually every property from category 1 featured more than a week ago is under contract and almost none of the properties from category 2 are.
So, two observations/questions
1) Weird that there are no properties from Logan/Wicker/Bucktown/UK Village, which is arguably the hottest corridor in the city (also no Pilsen/Bridgeport, which is where all the hipsters live now)
2) Does this sort of back up the hypothesis that buyers are avoiding “downtown”?
If I get bored this afternoon, I might go back a little further to see if the pattern holds.
1) I wouldn’t want to live in boystown, too noisy
2) the dining area is in the complete opposite end of the house lol
3) I lived in a similar sized rental unit a long time ago with a similar layout and it was a 2 bedroom, was nice because the living room was huge
also anyone else laugh at the hanging sticks collection in the living room above the TV? LOL “behold my great stick collection!”
So, space pak, and hot water heat, but a shitty looking duct cover over the stove? For what?
‘Sqft is just a number’
It’s actually in the ballpark, at least if you include the storage space.
Another unit no one lives in for very long. Hmmmm.I don’t know what all would be involved with trying to add a bath in a condo (guessing you could not actually get all your downstairs neighbors to agree) but a half bath would really add value to this unit. Otherwise, nice enough unit. Wouldn’t buy it if I was planning to start a family for the obvious schlepping stuff up all those stairs reasons, but that’s just me. That kitchen is also decently sad.
“However, I’d probably turn the family room into a bedroom and turn the smallest bedroom into a bathroom.
Or just turn the smallest bedroom into a bathroom and have an awesome 2 bed apartment (purchase price plus reno wouldn’t put it out of line with other 2 bds in the area)”
Preface this by sating its been a while since I herded turds and w/o tearing up the neighbor below’s ceiling, but I think you’d need to go back to back with the existing Lav (And probably would need a wall hung lav.
Maybe if you had a macerator, you could use a 2″
but I think you’d need to go back to back with the existing Lav
The closet in the smallest bedroom is back to back with the existing toilet.
I wouldn’t want to live in boystown, too noisy
The side streets are actually very pleasant. I live between Broadway and Halsted and nearly everyone who visits (even overnight guests) comments on how quiet it is.
“It’s actually in the ballpark, at least if you include the storage space”
Surprising for that person, I would assume he would have included the buildings vestibule, stairway, gangway and garage in the calculation.
Sonies, has it been that long? Boystown has always been quiet on the side streets. Only west of here do you get ignorant drunks whizzing in your bushes on the side streets.
I agree with the Cat, when you see a constant turn over every 4 years it says something.
I lived on this block, but on Buckingham, for several years. That building is right by the alley and it’s a very loud, late night busy stretch of Halsted. IDK if that’s the reason for the repeat resales?
“That building is right by the alley”
More to the point, it has a ~100′ line of sight to the 7-11 parking lot.
“ More to the point, it has a ~100? line of sight to the 7-11 parking lot.”
In a HAWT Market ™, would that be considered a bell or a whistle?
More to the point, it has a ~100? line of sight to the 7-11 parking lot
On the plus side, it’s super close to the Amazon lockers…
It’s been a few years since I’ve traveled through this neighborhood to attend a Cubs game, and it’s every bit as awful as I remember it 40 years ago when I was a young man.
“1) Weird that there are no properties from Logan/Wicker/Bucktown/UK Village, which is arguably the hottest corridor in the city (also no Pilsen/Bridgeport, which is where all the hipsters live now)”
Not a lot on the market right now Madeline in those neighborhoods. I know someone who just put an offer on a 2/2 in Logan and it had 5 offers.
Weather has been crappy and I haven’t wanted to go to West Town in it to take some pictures. Also, as I’ve commented, if there is one property in a neighborhood, I’m not going to bother covering it unless I have a picture already.
I figure that more inventory will come on in the next several weeks and I’ll be covering more in those neighborhoods.
2) Does this sort of back up the hypothesis that buyers are avoiding “downtown”?
Downtown is tough right now. Things are selling but it’s slow. Still lots of inventory. No bidding wars.
Neighborhoods are on fire. Multiple bids. Properties going under contract quickly.
“It’s been a few years since I’ve traveled through this neighborhood to attend a Cubs game, and it’s every bit as awful as I remember it 40 years ago when I was a young man.”
Some people like dense urban neighborhoods with dozens of restaurants and bars at the ready, multiple types of nearby public transportation and cultural institutions and others don’t want to live with that.
A big city isn’t for everyone.
Clearly it doesn’t float your boat HD, and never has.
Others love it.
I used to live around the block. If nothing’s changed, it’s a very noisy area, with a couple of popular bars on Halsted. I’d be wary of paying too much for this location.
Maybe the side streets are quieter now than they were 25 years ago when I lived there. But I was in the neighborhood last week for a Cubs game and one of the bars on Halsted was advertising a “drag” show that night. Sounds like a party atmosphere, and hard to believe it would stay on Halsted and not filter down Roscoe and Newport.
It’s been a decade, but I rented on this block from ’07-’09 though closer to Elaine. With the notable exception of Market Days, it *was* generally quiet. Back then Pride Parade started at Belmont/Broadway, went north to Grace, then back south on Halsted, making this block and the ones nearby an island and really not very busy. Marathon got busier since it went south on Broadway so people coming from west did come down this block. Both of those were during the day, of course.
I did not enjoy driving in the area at all. We had a parking spot, but trying to get back from family in the burbs on a Saturday night was never fun. The traffic (cabs back then, remember those? lol) around both Clark and Halsted was just awful. That last mile after Ashland could take 10+ minutes.
I can’t imagine the parking on this one is fun. There’s no alley on that side of the street. it has a really skinny driveway to the back of the house and then some spots jammed in there.
This unit is now Contingent