Bigger Than Most SFH’s and Under Contract: 7455 N. Hoyne in Rogers Park
It’s been awhile since we chattered about the big condo units in buildings such as this one at 7455 N. Hoyne in Rogers Park.
Built in 1929, the 6-unit Tudor style building has juliette balconies and big units.
At 1825 square feet, Unit #1N, has more space than many single family homes.
It also has vintage features such as crown molding and a wood burning fireplace.
But it is not without the modern amenities of central air and washer/dryer in the unit. Parking is available.
The listing describes the kitchen as a “posh Euro kitchen.”
It is also under contract after first being listed 11 months ago.
Santiago Valdez at Re/Max Signature has the listing. See more pictures here.
Unit #1N: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1825 square feet
- Sold in February 1994 for $82,000
- Sold in October 1996 for $109,500
- Sold in September 2001 for $209,000
- Sold in October 2003 for $229,500
- Sold in August 2004 for $244,000
- Originally listed in June 2009 for $249,900
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $249,000
- Under contract
- Assessments of $330 a month (includes heat)
- Taxes of $2720
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- Parking available
- Bedroom #1: 14×12
- Bedroom #2: 13×10
- Bedroom #3: 12×11
this place is awesome and cheap,
but its rodgers park and i cant remember if it rough over here or other side of touhy.
Laura chime in on that
i am pretty sure this location aint great. might be worse south of toughy, but its no mr rogers neighborhood here. (mr robinsons maybe ..for the old eddie murph fans)
Unit 3N in the same building is available for $234K, but doesn’t have central A/C.
The remax site required registration, here is the redfin link:
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/7455-N-Hoyne-Ave-60645/unit-1N/home/13573083
I’d have to say it’s a pretty looking unit.
Big, good-lookin’ place — if you don’t mind living in Rogers Park.
the photographer is good so its probably is a bit darker than portrayed. RP has some good places; just as brozville and humboltpark
Groove,
This beautiful condo is on the wrong side of Ridge. I’d be very careful over there.
Actually, since Groove has mentioned before he digs Jamaican jerk chicken, he would find a lot of culinary delights around here!
My friend lives at Howard and Winchester, and one time when I went over to her place there was a flier on the front door for a “Stop-The-Shootings March.” I don’t care how cheap it is; not worth it.
Sorry I am late to the party-just now saw this.
This is a GORGEOUS place and the neighborhood looks good, but is too close to Howard St, which has a lot of problems. But it is not bad for adults. However, you’d really have to keep your kids close to you and send them to private schools.
Fortunately, we have some fine private schools in the area. There’s Lake Shore, on Pratt in E.Rogers Park, close to Sheridan, and Sacred Heart in Edgewater on Sheridan, plus a number of fine Jewish and Catholic schools.
Somebody is getting a very good deal here. This place was rehabbed just right, while so many other of the beautiful, huge old 3-flats in W. Rogers Park have really been degraded by tasteless, tacky rehabs.
I’m envious, but I have my eye on a number of others.
This looks like a good investment property. Does anyone know if section 8 usage is restricted to only certain areas?
doclaura, Section 8 is unfortunately available everywhere, in every building. A landlord is NOT permitted to discriminate against a tenant with a Section 8 voucher, which is why we have Section 8 tenants living in buildings like the Presidential Towers and in rentals in Streeterville.
As a resident of Rogers Park who loves this neighborhood with its beautiful architecture, beaches, mature trees, and many genial neighbors, I sincerely hope that you would not buy a lovely place like this just to turn it over to some welfare momma with 5 kids. Only an indigent with a large family would qualify for a voucher big enough to rent a place like this.
Section 8 is what wrecked Rogers Park and other fine communities, like my old area in another city. One building goes Section 8 and fills up with people who endanger the neighborhood, and others soon follow as good tenants flee the area in fear.
Landlords are supposed to screen the tenants and really good screening will keep out a lot of the worst tenants. But landlords with buildings to fill in a soft market or who don’t want to maintain their property to the standards of rent-paying tenants find Section 8 an easy way to guarantee an income of shabby, deteriorating buildings.
Thankfully, the number of Section 8 vouchers is shrinking overall. I have a friend who bought a number of ratty houses on the south side with the intention of renting them to Section 8 ONLY, in order to get that government guaranteed rent. He is having more trouble finding tenants than he thought he would.
Nice place as long as you don’t like to go outside unarmed, don’t open your windows in nice weather (unless you enjoy unintelligible yelling), don’t have kids, and won’t need to sell any time soon (or ever). If you have a car, you better have parking because street parking can be scarce. It shares an alley with the 2000 block of Birchwood (a strong contender for the worst block in Rogers Park) and less than two blocks from Howard. You can count on at least one shooting a year on Birchwood and year-round games of “gun shots, fireworks, or both?”
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/rogers.park.shooting.2.709596.html
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/rogers.park.shooting.2.1122936.html
“This beautiful condo is on the wrong side of Ridge. I’d be very careful over there.”
dahliachi, so west of ridge and north of touhy is where you want to be?
“Actually, since Groove has mentioned before he digs Jamaican jerk chicken, he would find a lot of culinary delights around here”
Roma, if i am out that far north you will catch me on devon getting my bollywood (sp) on. but if you know a good place by this listing i am always willing to try any place once.
“doclaura, Section 8 is unfortunately available everywhere”
Laura section8 is getting out of control the reason you friend is scrambling to get section 8 in the hood is beacuse sec8 peep’s realized you can get better when you go north, and you will see them in dunning, jeff park, bemont/cragin, albany park. I guess they see it as why live in a crap shack on the south side getting shot at when you can live with whitey and just get stared at.
“Roma, if i am out that far north you will catch me on devon getting my bollywood (sp) on.”
Preach it brother. Been a while since I’ve been out at Devon/Western for some grub. Easily one of my favorite parts of the city.
The comments on here are very disturbing to me. I believe that we can’t isolate the poor and they should be thinly disbursted throughout the city. Its good for the children to be around productive people and help improve their quality of life. Its sad people treat poverty like a contagious disease. Being poor doesn’t equal criminal. We can’t concentrate them anymore on the southside as the southside is already over burdened. I’m not looking to a slumlord, I know I will have the stictest standards.
These days, the best section of Rogers Park is in East Rogers Park, east of the el tracks and south from Falwell to Devon. It is the section contiguous with Edgewater. We have no shootings around here and very few scruffy people. I can and do walk around how I please. It’s one of my favorite areas in the city now , though I can remember when it was quite terrible here, a few years before I came.
I’m not interested in buying north of Lunt, and only close to Sheridan Road or east of it.
Anything north of Falwell and too close to the el tracks is not terribly good. The blocks between Clark and Ridge, north of Falwell, are very bad right now.
“dahliachi, so west of ridge and north of touhy is where you want to be?”
i have a friend on morse west of ridge, it seems fine. I think anything west of ridge is ok but I’m no local. Stuff west of western is nice too. Esp near that indian boundary park
Indian Boundary Park is a beautiful, safe neighborhood and really reasonable prices for gorgeous houses and condos. This area has some of the most beautiful SF houses in the city.
Section 8 will be cut drastically over the next few years and another program with stricter regulations and eligibility requirements will be put in it’s place. Thank God!!
As far as this location, while not a Chicago expert in any sense of the word, I know enough to not even consider anything in the area…sorry Laura. While I agree there is a certain charm to Rogers Park, the chances that it will ever fully recover from hood rats and crack dealers are very slim…which is a shame as there are a number of really fantastic places in the area.
I tagged along on a few days of touring Rogers Park with a few brokers and agents shorty before I came back to NYC. They wanted a professional opinion on renovating a few buildings…total guts on some solid buildings to restore them to their original splendor…and while there were some potential, in the end everyone backed out and started considering other areas over this area. Real shame as a number of buildings were obviously done prior the the crash and I guess the buyers lost big time on their purchases.
🙁 Hate seeing that!!
Falwell?
Do you mean Farwell?
I have friends who live on Lunt about a block west of the EL stop and I don’t like my wife visiting there and taking the train alone at night thats for sure, theres always a lot of skeezy wierdos hanging around there but at least there is a lot of police patrolling at night.
The area north of Touhy and east of Ridge and around the Howard stop is pretty bad.
Laura, actually on Morse and Farwell, etc. West of the Metra tracks , there is a beautiful neighborhood of single family victorian homes on extra big, deep lots.
My kids’ pediatrician lives over there, so does my realtor. People take Estes stop on the Metra to get downtown.
The area north of Touhy and east of Ridge and around the Howard stop is pretty bad.
Laura, actually on Morse and Farwell, etc. West of the Metra tracks , there is a beautiful neighborhood of single family victorian homes on extra big, deep lots.
My kids’ pediatrician lives over there, so does my realtor, so does my attorney.
People take Estes stop on the Metra to get downtown.
I forgot about that pocket. Yes, that is a very pretty area, dahliachi.
My fave parts of Rogers Park and West Ridge are the strip east of Sheridan along the lakefront, Sheridan Road up to Touhy, and the south end of the neighborhood from Falwell down to Devon and east of Ashland.
The Indian Boundary Park area in West Ridge and the whole area north of Devon and west of Western is beautiful, with beautiful SF homes and apartment buildings. I never saw so many vintage buildings with indoor pools. The one at the Park Castle is incredible. Also, a number of buildings and houses covered with decorative terra cotta, like the Casa Bonita. Too bad it’s so close to Howard Street, which has a lot of public safety problems and bad pockets on both sides of the Evanston-Chicago border. Too bad, it could be an attractive and interesting street.
Of course I mean Farwell. Why did I keep typing an “l”, for Chrissakes
Distracted, sorry.