Cute As a Button Logan Square Single Family Home: 2527 W. Charleston
This 3-bedroom single family house at 2527 W. Charleston was built in 1888 in Logan Square/West Bucktown and has been on the market since July 2009.
It has now been reduced by $26,100.
The listing calls it a cottage.
It has hardwood floors throughout. The kitchen has white cabinets and wood counter tops alongside stainless steel appliances.
All 3 bedrooms are on the second level along with a 16×16 sunroom. The upstairs bedrooms also have unusual wide plank wood floors.
The house has central air and a garage.
It looks like there is a basement but it’s unfinished.
Peter Picchietti at Prudential Rubloff has the listing. See the pictures and a virtual tour here.
2527 W. Charleston: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2 car garage, no square footage listed
- Sold in April 2000 for $247,000
- Sold in October 2006 for $512,000
- Originally listed in July 2009 for $575,000
- Reduced several times
- Currently listed for $548,900
- Taxes of $4334
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 13×12 (second level)
- Bedroom #2: 10×10 (second level)
- Bedroom #3: 11×10 (second level)
- Living room: 15×13
- Dining room: 15×12
- Kitchen: 16×16
- Sunroom: 16×16 (second level)
- Unfinished basement
did someone say margies candies? I miss the oak theater 🙁
As nice as this place looks, Western is a $200K (my estimate obviously) dividing line here. It backs up to a CVS/parking lot.
I will say that the staging is nice.
2 bedrooms with half ceilings = fail @ 500k
especially in Logan/sucktown!!!
“2 bedrooms with half ceilings = fail @ 500k
especially in Logan/sucktown!!!”
If this were actually in Bucktown (east of Western) it would sell quickly for 500K. Logan, another story (see comment above re Western divide). More Bucktown hating. Lovely. Can we hear from Groove as well?
Hehe, that’s for the track & hollywood lighting comment from the other day Jon!
Trying to sell for more than the October 2006 peak of the bubble pricing = FAIL
seriously, if you had to decide between this and the loft on Peoria….
“Can we hear from Groove as well?”
i have a quick second to spare so…(in a bored i dont really want to voice) I hate Bucktown and blah
“seriously, if you had to decide between this and the loft on Peoria”
I am Pro SFH but i would take the peoria loft before living here.
Three problems besides those mentioned:
1. Bedrooms are v., v. small. I don’t actually mind sloping ceilings in BR, but they need to be more like 15×15 to be decent. 10×10 with sloping ceiling is barely usable.
2. Lot is only 111′ deep.
3. Bet the basement is about 5.5 feet deep.
hey anon for this place and the ashland place you said 150 sq ft for br is ok, but many places your lucky to get the mbr that big. have I been missing the places with big bdrms?
“hey anon for this place and the ashland place you said 150 sq ft for br is ok, but many places your lucky to get the mbr that big”
On Ashland, I was dashing a bit–my thinking was the “big” BRs would be max 12×12–144sf. Probably most of the 8 are 8×10-10×11–80 to 110 sf. I wouldn’t buy a house to live in w/o a MBR at least sniffing 200 SF (14×14, or so).
And on this one, I stand by 15×15 (ie 225 sf) or bigger with sloping ceiling being workable–if the shortest point is still 4.5′–ie, tall enough for a headboard (not all, of course) tucked up against the short wall.
10×10 is small for a guest room, even unless it’s got a big closet, and ridiculous (at $500k+–not ridiculous in a $200k SFH; just different expectations) for a school-age kid (again, unless it’s got a *big* closet, or you don’t mind the kids’ stuff occupying the rest of the house). And with sloping ceilings, a 10×10 room going to live like a 7×10 (maybe 8×10) room, which is a *big* closet, not a functional everyday bedroom.
I think you all are selling this place a little short.
If you have a preference toward that 14 N Peoria loft, hey, no accounting for taste. (I would love to meet this hypothetical buyer choosing between this place and the uber loft on Peoria, though.)
But how could that loft be worth more than this home, in terms of total value?
Positives being overlooked:
*We’re complaining about bedroom square footage when the master has a 16×16 sunroom annex? Maybe it’s just December in Chicago, but I want a 16×16 sunroom off my master (southern exposure no less).
*Re: the sloped ceilings– pic of 3rd bedroom notably missing (so I fear the worst), but the pic of bdrm #2 suggests it’s very usable. Probably set off from a stairwell, as that ceiling slope is very minor, almost a dutch colonial kind of setup that doesn’t cut into living space much.
*This is completely redone, and some of the finishes are way beyond just “nice”– floors are exceptional (and I have theories on how a heated wide plank bedroom floor could benefit a marriage that I would LOVE to test), kitchen appears to be legitimately “chef’s” level, and bath appears to have some nice travertine and cabinets.
*This place is actually better than the peoria spot for public tranist.
Negatives so far unstated:
*Frame construction. . . I think this was a gut, not a new construction, but either way, frame. In terms of SF home values, brick/masonry would make this price point easier to digest.
*Number of rooms. . . I have trouble going past $500k in this hood without a 4th bedroom (or at least a “study” / etc). But it’s a cottage, and that’s how that goes, so “just” a price issue.
“But how could that loft be worth more than this home, in terms of total value?”
1) Its got a great view
2) Closer to work if you’re in the loop. You have no idea the difference between a 45 minute commute and a 15 minute commute do you, that extra 60 minutes a day really adds up over the weeks. 200+ hours not commuting a year… more time is worth something isn’t it? If you make 175k to afford such a house, that’s $13,500 a year assuming 50 hrs per week worked… as they say, you can’t make more than 24 hours in a day!
3) No yardwork. This is worth thousands to me!
4) 2000 sqft with no slanted ceilings! hate them…
5) much nicer less cookie cutter finishes
so yeah, i’d take the loft on peoria.
The supply of 175k a year households is inexhaustable!
“Closer to work if you’re in the loop. You have no idea the difference between a 45 minute commute and a 15 minute commute do you, that extra 60 minutes a day really adds up over the weeks. 200+ hours not commuting a year… more time is worth something isn’t it? If you make 175k to afford such a house, that’s $13,500 a year assuming 50 hrs per week worked… as they say, you can’t make more than 24 hours in a day!”
Per your math, who cares where you live if you are working 2,600 hours a year — I hope you have a nice office. I live very close to this Logan home and it takes me 15-20 minutes to drive to the loop – so there’s that. I agree with SquareD that the person deciding between this house and the West Loop loft probably needs both — one for each personality.
“No yardwork. This is worth thousands to me!”
LAZY.
Its more like a 20-25 minute commute from the Logan blue line stop to the Loop, which includes the wait time and a block walk. 30 minutes max. I make that commute every morning. Shave a few minutes off as Western is a few stops down the line.
“LAZY.”
Yeah let me tell you, i’d much rather be raking leaves on my Saturday and Sunday afternoon than watching football…. not… or perhaps shoveling snow? Or mowing the lawn on those nice humid summer days after work? Oh, weeding, thats fun too. And hedge trimming, what a joy! Maybe in my extra time, i’ll reseal my deck, redo the shingles, paint the exterior of the house and reglaze all the windows. Sounds like fun! Or yeah, I could sit on my ass and let someone else do it.
LAZY
“Or yeah, I could sit on my ass and let someone else do it.”
Why respond if you are just going to agree with me? You speak of these Chicago lots like they are sprawling estates in the burbs. My point was only that there really isn’t too much to taking care of a postage stamp lot in the city and some people (like myself who tries to turn a rooftop into a yard) actually enjoy these things more than trying to win a couch-sitting contest on the weekends. Ever powerwash a deck? It’s therapeutic.
““No yardwork. This is worth thousands to me!”
LAZY.”
doooooode if i see another leave on the ground i will cry. for me this year was the roughest cause all the leaves fell in like a 3 week period. i raked leaves twice a week for 3 weeks. not fun
“Ever powerwash a deck? It’s therapeutic”
Yes I did it frequently at a summer job I had when I was 16. It sucks.
Wasn’t a house almost like this featured before thanksgiving? Those sloped bedroom ceilings remind me of it.
“Wasn’t a house almost like this featured before thanksgiving? Those sloped bedroom ceilings remind me of it.”
And featured again today!
Or are you thinking of the 36xx Hermitage(?) one?
Closed for $375k?!?. . . .
. . . behold, the buyer who gets > 30% off ask (although we’ll see what gets recorded I’m sure).
Disregard, I’m an idiot.
Looks comfortable. Seems to have plenty of space for a family with 3 kids. We’ve toured; like the layout (all bedrooms upstairs), hardwood floors and location for nearby EL.
Just toured…The master bedroom with the sun room is ideal. Love the kitchen..great cabinet space and appliances are stainless steel! Basement is perfect for storage..would be nice to have our clutter in the basement rather than upstairs.
This place is pretty close to Congress Pizza, which has had major issues with gang activity, much more so than Bucktown or other parts of Logan.