Get a 2-Bedroom and Spectacular Views for Under $600,000: 155 N. Harbor Drive in the Loop
This 2-bedroom at Harbor Point, at 155 N. Harbor Drive, in the Loop (next door to Lakeshore East) has never ending views of Millennium Park, Grant Park, Monroe Harbor and the city skyline from its Southwest facing windows.
Harbor Point is unmistakable, given its prominent location near Lake Shore Drive.
Built in 1974, it is a full-service building with around 740 units.
This unit was last sold in 2008 but it was sold as a fixer upper with the listing telling buyers to bring their contractors.
Since then, the property has had a “complete rehab” including new hardwood floors and a new kitchen and baths.
The kitchen has stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops and is open to the living space.
The unit has an in-unit washer/dryer and wall units for air conditioning.
There is rental parking available in the building.
Given the views and the location (and that the unit is move-in ready) would this make a good in town?
Anthony Bertani at Realty Executives has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #3102: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1200 square feet
- Sold in July 2008 for $475,000
- Originally listed in March 2011 for $574,900
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $559,900
- Assessments of $755 a month (includes pool, doorman)
- Taxes of $4950
- Parking is rental between $185 and $210 a month
- Wall unit air conditioning
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 16×11
- Bedroom #2: 14×11
R…U…KIDDING ME?!!! This place should sell in the low 400s – anything above the 2008 selling price would be shocking.
Given that views are major selling point of the unit, it is not very good marketing not to include any photos of views.
Also a lighter color granite stone would have looked better in the kitchen and please remove the hideous rail lighting on top of the bar area.
“R…U…KIDDING ME?!!! This place should sell in the low 400s – anything above the 2008 selling price would be shocking.”
Why? It was a complete rehab. That doesn’t come cheap.
Looked at this building in 1974- Great architecture, this unit floorplan is not the most desirable. The ones with the curved windows are. I agree that the current price does not make sense. Probably 100,000 too high
“Why? It was a complete rehab. That doesn’t come cheap.”
nor guarantee that you will see back a penny of it. Simply upgraded to now look like everything else built between 03-06.
Nothing says Bauhaus quite like a shaker kitchen, and why Mercedes doesn’t let you design your own car.
We all dreamed of living in one or the other of these buildings, shoot some of us as adults still dream to live in one of them.
but my dream as a grown adult is to have kick butz dinner parties at my unit, yet the social rooms here (especially dining room) have crushed all those years of imagining.
You can see the views from the 51st floor in this sponsored video …
http://yochicago.com/extraordinary-views-from-a-51st-floor-harbor-point-home/21085/
“my dream as a grown adult is to have kick butz dinner parties at my unit”
And oddly I yearn for going back to being in a dorm with a bunch of friends (one of whom, of course, is already passed out on a months worth of piled up laundry), totally wrecked, and eating pizzas.
I am surprised this unit does not have floor to ceiling windows. Is this typical of the building or did the owner install buildouts on the floors and sidewalls?
I live in a condo (renting) with floor to ceiling glass in a much newer structure nearby, and although I am only on the 18th floor, the large continuous window system in my unit allows much more “view” than this unit could ever hope to enjoy.
I actually like the way it’s been remodeled. I’m guessing lots of people would take issue with the size of the kitchen, but I like tiny kitchens.
I’m not sure about the price, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone paid the current asking price. It doesn’t scream “deal” to me, but for someone looking for this type of unit, I could see it selling for close to asking. The taxes are very reasonable and assessments are lower than a lot of other places in the area.
I like the lighting above the pool
I’d be more inclined to buy one of the cheaper units and do my own upgrades. I’m not sure it’s such a wise move to stage the second bedroom as an office, especially since it makes it look so small. Unit 5307 is slightly smaller and calling itself a 1bed plus den, but listed at $329,000.
Also Ze that is kind of how I imagine you live right now…
Every room in the photos looks incredibly cramped. Is it just the photos, or are the rooms really this small?
I’d want to be higher up if I were in this building, to get above the neighboring building. A southeast view with more lake would also be nice.
The 51st floor apartment someone posted above: That is the apartment I’d want in this building. The curved windows and higher floor make a big difference.
“I’m guessing lots of people would take issue with the size of the kitchen, but I like tiny kitchens.”
we like tiny kitchens too only when a pantry is accompanied or correct storage has been thought out.
“Also Ze that is kind of how I imagine you live right now…”
Jennifer… I’m planing on painting yellow the cinder block wall next week so you might have to upgrade your impression. Of course the surfboard and Heather Thomas (Fall Guy years) picture go right back up afterwards. 🙂
@ Groove77
There is an indoor basketball court (small, but still)
This is the building Dr. Detroit lived in, I am surprised the listing does not note this:)
Both 3202 and 5302 are on the market for less than this and both of those are recently rehabbed as well. It’s not even competitively priced within its own building, let alone the neighborhood. That pool looks fantastic though.
Like that video. Now that is what a downtown hiigh rise space should look like! Nioce job combining the units but I do take exception with the ugly main kitchen and the odd placement of a small dining table that blocks traffic. That would never hold enough people for Groove’s dinner party or Ze’s raging bash.
“Every room in the photos looks incredibly cramped.”
It’s 1200 sq feet – which is a small 2 bedroom
“Given that views are major selling point of the unit, it is not very good marketing not to include any photos of views.”
Is that last photo a picture of the view?
“It’s 1200 sq feet”
Not even that, they rounded up from 1140.
I lived in a 1,200 SF 2-bedroom, and although the bedrooms were on the small side, at least we had a large combined living/dining area. If I recall correctly, it stretched about 25 to 30 feet and with windows all around, felt very expansive. So it is possible for a 1,200 SF unit to feel spacious, but they didn’t do it right in this building.
“nor guarantee that you will see back a penny of it. Simply upgraded to now look like everything else built between 03-06.”
Sure, nothing is guaranteed. But an ounce of common sense tells you that a complete rehab of a 1/2 mil condo adds SOME value to the prior price. The only question is if that increase is more than offset by the decrease in real estate prices since then.
I have a thing for this building too, but i think it is mostly because it is somewhat of a Darth Vader of buildings : )
“@ Groove77
There is an indoor basketball court (small, but still)”
a before dinner pick up game or a quick game of 21 would be an awesome party starter or ender depending how the game goes 🙂
Apparently at a Groove dinner party instead of bring a dish, you bring a ball….
Awesome indeed Groove. I’d also bring some shorts for a dip in that awesome indoor pool after dessert.
“the odd placement of a small dining table that blocks traffic. That would never hold enough people for Groove’s dinner party or Ze’s raging bash.”
The dining table weirded me out too, but I figure for the party we just remove the chairs and push the table towards the window and use it as a buffet table. That way it would be both nicer and provide a place for the punch bowl filled with ice and jager, bong, and caviar.
I liked the living room and the same size artwork but the black checkering in the kitchen set me off in an epileptic fit, forcing me to inject myself in my own heart, and after that the video lost me.
“that a complete rehab of a 1/2 mil condo adds SOME value to the prior price.”
I am in agreement with you. This one went all the way from shit to shinola.
jp3.. you are responsible to bring the creme fraiche and the blinis. And none of that bullshit sour cream you tried passing off last time at the yo chicago party.
@ ze, 3 food items i cannot stand are root beer, peanut butter, and sour cream. i am impressed to see an americano who is not in love with one of the above.
@miu… I love sour cream… Jewish thing maybe. Just last week I had my first baby calf. Now I have milk that I have no idea what to do with, brought back bottles of it and going to play making all sorts of stuff. Sour creme and creme fraiche high on the list. Butter (and my favorite vanilla ice creme are first – fresh beans of course). Separating the creme as we speak. I have no idea what I am doing, too fun!
yogurt is pretty easy ze. it is kind of cool that we both became parents roughly the same time : )
” it is kind of cool that we both became parents roughly the same time : )”
How are you planing on seasoning and cooking yours? 🙂
lol…you are terrible. how can you eat your first born? does he/she have a name?
“how can you eat your first born?”
The females stay so she is safe for many years. Ultimately I do guess they all wind up being eaten though. Her name is Aninha and she’s a week old and already 50kg. One of my dogs, who attacks everything else, think she’s hers and runs around kissing it, while the calf kicks her. It’s pretty damn cute.
I like how things work at your farm. I have been telling for ages than men have become obsolete given the sperm banks. We need to just keep the females ; )
BTW, that is cute. I gather the dog is a female.
“I gather the dog is a female.”
German Shepherd… she’s getting bred soon too. I like having at least 3 and no-one comes near you, without an invite, when you have 3 GS’s.
btw miu.. to tie this into real estate and answer your question from the day before. Notice this is income producing property, or more accurately something that began as wanting a residence that would pay for itself. One thing I have seen is that it is of great benefit to be active in real estate where you are at least supplemented by return. Just purchasing a place will be something you should enter into as if it is going to be an expense, than, just how much of one. I agree in a way that it should be compared to just the simplicity of checking into a nice hotel and being catered to but in the same I know damn well it’s nice getting off a plane and having your closet all filled with YOUR shit and waiting for you. Even if you don’t see that stuff for years on end. It’s nice. Nonetheless.. enter into as an expense!
I wonder if all the furniture is fake in here. Look at the lower left side of picture 8 on the chair and dresser. Either it is fake or there are some bad pixels….
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