Edgewater Glen Prairie Style 4-Bedroom Sells For $32,900 OVER The 2007 Price: 1310 W. Glenlake
We last chattered about this 4-bedroom Prairie style house with the front porch swing at 1310 W. Glenlake in Edgewater Glen in July 2012.
See our prior chatter here.
Back then, the house was listed at $729,000 and the Chatterati was nearly unanimous that it was overpriced.
Way overpriced.
Most said that anything over $700,000 would be dreaming. Heck, $650,000 would be a great price. Some said $600,000 would get it done.
The house just sold in 3 months for $697,900.
That’s $32,900 over the 2007 price.
If you remember, the house was built in 1916 on a 31×124.6 lot.
It had the features buyers look for including 3 bedrooms on one level, central air and a garage (only a 1 car garage however.)
The listing said there are new Marvin windows.
The kitchen had cherry cabinets, granite and stainless steel appliances.
This house was just a a block and a half from the Granville red line stop.
Is the Edgewater Glen market hotter than many of you had originally thought?
Or is lack of inventory keeping prices elevated in the neighborhood?
Alley Ballard at @Properties had the listing.
1310 W. Glenlake: 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 3200 square feet, 1 car garage
- Sold in January 1995 for $235,000
- Sold in August 2007 for $665,000
- Was listed in July 2012 at $729,000
- Sold on September 13, 2012 for $697,900
- Taxes of $8301
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 21×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 13×10 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 13×10 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 15×14 (third floor)
- Family room: 14×12 (lower level)
$218 psf. Cheaper than updated homes in Niles!
Trudi wins the showcase showdown by a mile.
As I said, the neighborhood(s) up in this area seem to be attractive to buyers of SFHs.
I think the subject property is within the Peirce Elementary boundaries. Can anyone comment on the school’s reputation and whether it’s trending in any direction?
In my comment on the prior thread, I said $700,000 “is a fantasy.”
It sold for $697,900. I stand vindicated!
I knew that the area is very popular, but I’m slightly surprised it sold this high. I expected more like $600K.
The neighborhood IS great. Even though you are within a few blocks of two el stations, two major grocery chains, the library (which will be finished spring 2013) a couple of banks, and large number of restaurants and other conveniences, you feel like you are far from the city when you are walking these quiet, densely-treed streets with their fine, well-kept old homes, between Broadway and Clark. Andersonville is very close by, a few blocks south, and the beach is a few blocks east. The area is very closely-kit, with a lot of long-standing neighborly associations among the denizens, many of whom grew up around here and whose families go back 3 generations or more in the area.
It’s a great area. Nice homes and lots of families. It is in peirce school which only getting better.
“Peirce Elementary boundaries. Can anyone comment on the school’s reputation and whether it’s trending in any direction?”
Someone here has a finger on Peirce (trudi??). Only heard positive things about the trend, and nothing affirmatively bad about the recent past, too.
@abigbeatdownfool Peirce is a decent school, neighborhood consensus seems to be the school is strong in preK and K, through the early grades but weaker in the upper grades. There is a lot of parent interest and involvement, a strong teaching staff, the administration sometimes doesn’t impress.
Peirce is a candidate school for IB middle years in partnership with Senn HS which has a new principal who has made substantive changes and begun to turn around neighborhood perception of that school.
As far as trend goes Peirce seems to be a bit stuck. What happens at Senn (one of the new “wall to wall” IBs) will be a big factor in whether families stay at Peirce rather than looking for other options…
Northside Catholic Academy / St Gertude Parish is one of the hubs of the neighborhood. Many kids attend se/magnet schools or other private schools.
Peirce is definitely on the upswing.
Glad to hear the school is so good. Perhaps the reason for that is that the people in this neighborhood tend to be very involved in what goes on in the neighborhood- they show up at public meetings, they volunteer, they join block clubs. So I suppose they are very caring parents who are very involved with their children’s education, and that makes the difference between a good school and a bad one.
jmg, the upper grades are lacking at this stage due to demographics, this is normal. As more and more families start in pre-k they seem to be sticking around and the school slowly improves. Enrollment is up over 1,000 students (a slow steady increase each year), the most since 2005.
“Enrollment is up over 1,000 students (a slow steady increase each year), the most since 2005.”
sounds like overcrowding is in the immediate future.
Senn will never really be a destination school/HS of choice until they get playing fields, etc – Mary Anne Smith didn’t get it when she was “alderman” (in one neighborhood meeting she said that she wanted Senn to become more of a neighborhood school and ten minutes later she said it wasn’t possible for it to become a neighborhood school – I called her out on it and it was great seeing her try to backpedal on it) and I don’t think Osterman is any more competent than she was. I lived a couple of blocks south of here for ten years and left for a few reasons, one of which was crime. Despite the charms of the area, and there are many, a lot of my friends were uncomfortable being stuck on one way streets (west of Broadway I should note) behind drug deals when leaving in the evening (like 9 pm) – the last straw for me was a drug related shooting and destruction of garages from the fleeing dealer in his Range Rover.
I’m not surprised at the price though, the house looks immaculate and tasteful. The little area of single-family houses might not have the same problems, or at least to the same degree.
“sounds like overcrowding is in the immediate future.”
I meant to say total enrollment is up to over 1,000 students. Sorry, the school has room for about 1,200 students and was down below 900 only a few years ago.
“I don’t think Osterman is any more competent than she was”
Totally disagree, Mary Anne had been phoning it in for a few years. Osterman has been very involved. Last year he got a $75K grant for Peirce to put in new science lab.
“I meant to say total enrollment is up to over 1,000 students. Sorry, the school has room for about 1,200 students and was down below 900 only a few years ago.”
sounds better stated that way.
“Senn will never really be a destination school”
i just went to a retirement party a few months back to a lady who went to senn, her dad went to senn and her daughter went to senn. thats 3 generations. (given the daughter by my math graduated in the early 80’s)
“Senn will never really be a destination school/HS of choice until they get playing fields, etc ”
Strangely, Jones seem to do okay without that. And Northside isn’t lagging because it has about the same amount of fieldspace (albeit w/ a more usable layout, and a smaller student body) as Senn. Nor does WY’s reliance on a public park for fields hurt its status as a “destination” school.
It’s a city HS, and even at that, the goal isn’t to make it as desirable as WY, NSCP, Payton, or even Lane, the goal is to make it a reasonable option for a family, in the general area, who would otherwise go private, or move out of the city.