Get a 3-Bedroom Townhouse with a Garage for Under $450K: 1125 W. Newport in Lakeview
This 3-bedroom townhouse at 1125 W. Newport in Lakeview is on the market for the first time in 15 years.
The fee simple townhouse is a highly coveted corner unit (more windows!) with a private one car garage.
The listing says it is the “first resale by the original owners.” It has a new roof, master bath, windows and kitchen. The kitchen has black appliances.
Two of the bedrooms are on the third floor with the third on the main (and garage) level.) The rest of the living area is on the second level.
The listing also says the townhouse is in the Nettelhorst school district and is NOT on the El.
Originally listed in October 2011, it has been reduced $11,900 to $450,000.
Is this an attractive single family home alternative for the location and square footage?
Rose Leversha at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #E: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 1995 square feet, 1 car garage
- Sold in March 1996 for $259,000
- Originally listed in October 2011 for $461,900
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $450,000
- Assessments of $155 a month (includes water and snow removal)
- Taxes of $5126
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 14×12 (third floor)
- Bedroom #2: 14×10 (third floor)
- Bedroom #3: 13×13 (main floor)
Is today SFH Alternative Tuesday?
Great place. Your children can play the driveway, teach them to play stick ball. They can look for bugs in teh 4×4 patio area. Gotta be careful though, it’s not a good idea to let a 10 year old ride his bike around the neighborhood with all the craziness going on especially during cubs games. stick ball rules!
This is more Wrigleyville than SoPo. But whatever.
Near the park at Hawthorne. Better buy than any of the $400k+ 2/2s in the neighborhood.
Here’s a SFH for you. Theo “the second coming” Epstein just paid 8% percent over ask for his new place in the neighborhood. HD–Better warn him not to raise his son in the city, he must not have gotten the memo.
http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/article/20111206/CRED0701/111209882/new-cubs-pres-theo-epstein-pays-3-25-mil-for-home-near-wrigley
Seems pretty competitive to me, probably finds a buyer above $420k.
not on L my ass. Just because your windows don’t face the L doesn’t mean it’s not loud as hell when the L goes by.
So where’s theo’s place? Someone with more ccrd skillz than I want to post it?
“So where’s theo’s place? Someone with more ccrd skillz than I want to post it?”
3618 N Greenview
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http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3618-N-Greenview-Ave-Chicago-IL-60613/2129642789_zpid/
nevermind, found it, 3600 block of greenview. his kids can go to blaine with rosie’s
Adjusting the (pre-bubble, presumably reasonable) 1996 price for inflation gets you to $355,000, which equates to $178/sf — a fair price for this neighborhood and proximity to the el.
“Adjusting the (pre-bubble, presumably reasonable) 1996 price for inflation gets you to $355,000, which equates to $178/sf — a fair price for this neighborhood and proximity to the el.”
Give ’em a little credit for the upgraded kitchen and baths (if you don’t like ’em as is, why would you consider buying this place?), and you could justify $200 psf.
I lived down the street from here when these were first built. If I am not mistaken this was an old lot covered with rusting trash, and used for cubs parking during game days. Yes the el is very close, for sure.
One of the things I noticed is that the units are directly opposite each other; there is no privacy when curtains/blinds are open. Not a big deal unless your neighbor is 12 feet across from you. Also the lot directly across (corner of racine/roscoe) used to be an old gas station. My sister, who worked for the DOE at the time, once told me the developers incurred heavy fines for not properly cleaning up the old gas station tanks. So I hope the people who bought those condos are not getting sick from the fumes, and I am sure the developers kept that very quiet.
Mary’s recollection matches mine.
“This is more Wrigleyville than SoPo. But whatever.”
Hate to break it to ya, but SoPo is Wrigleyville. Plenty of college rentals mixed in with the misguided “Blaine” parents.
This is what I call “ass-to-nostrils” living.
“nevermind, found it, 3600 block of greenview. his kids can go to blaine with rosie’s”
Went to an open house in Graceland West once. Asked the realtor, who lived down the street, if the school district was Blaine. She told me Blaine wasn’t good enough for the people in this neighborhood. The disdain for Blaine in her voice was pretty awesome.
“Asked the realtor, who lived down the street, if the school district was Blaine. She told me Blaine wasn’t good enough for the people in this neighborhood.”
But Ravenswood was/is?
So, basically, do they get a private school discount for living in Snootland West?
I find it funny when a used home salesperson attempts to act snooty to what many consider a perfectly respectable school. I do wonder if that Realtor(tm) will bring along her idea of some sort of peking order to her next job: possibly transferring it instead to various dog breeds at her future dog grooming profession.
“I find it funny when a used home salesperson attempts to act snooty to what many consider a perfectly respectable school.”
I find it funny when rich women get all dressed up to go looking for houses, in order to impress the broker. I seem to be seeing that a lot down here, right now.
“But Ravenswood was/is?
So, basically, do they get a private school discount for living in Snootland West?”
She mentioned some private school, but I wasn’t listening anymore, and instead trying to imagine an alternate universe where alternate me might think that Blaine was a school worth looking down upon. I couldn’t imagine said universe, so I moved on.
She did actually say that Graceland West used to be all in Blaine, but that they somehow removed themselves from that district. Which made even less sense to me than her original disdain for Blaine. Come to think of it, nothing about that day made any sense, including the master bathroom that was bigger than my entire house.
I wonder if that was the snooty saleslady that I met at a brokers’ open house a few years ago. I mentioned the local CPS (a good one) and she sniffed, “THESE buyers will send their kids to Parker or Anshe Emet.” While we were almost literally standing in the shadows of a (good) Catholic school!
Icarus – no, but today is “Fungus Wednesday” on the Channel 5 news at 10!
Oh, and it’s also the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. A moment of silence, please…
To celebrate his imminent imprisonment Sabrina should do an update on the Blago house.
“To celebrate his imminent imprisonment Sabrina should do an update on the Blago house.”
You’re right.