Get a 4-Bedroom Renovated SFH in Bowmanville for $875,000: 2200 W. Berwyn
This 4-bedroom single family home at 2200 W. Berwyn in the Bowmanville neighborhood of Lincoln Square came on the market in April 2019.
(Sorry- no picture.)
Built in 1907, on a standard 25×125 lot, it has a 2.5 car garage.
The listing says the house has had a “complete gut rehab.”
There’s new siding, windows, plumbing, dual zone heating and air conditioning.
It has dark hardwood floors throughout, crown molding and wainscoting.
The kitchen has white cabinets, what looks like stone counter tops and stainless steel appliances along with a large kitchen island.
The house has a full, finished basement with a full bath and a wet bar.
There are two utility rooms, one on the second floor and one in the lower level.
It has the layout many families prefer with 3 of the 4 bedrooms on the second floor.
The fourth bedroom is in the basement.
The house has a back deck as well.
There’s central air.
Originally listed at $950,000, it has been reduced $75,000 to $875,000.
Is Bowmanville inching towards the million dollar price club now?
Mohammed Iftikhar at Guidance Realty has the listing. See the pictures here.
You can also see it at the Open House on Sunday, May 19 from 12-2 PM.
2200 W. Berwyn: 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 3200 square feet
- Sold in November 2017 for $380,000
- Originally listed in April 2019 for $950,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $875,000
- 2.5 car garage
- Taxes of $9778
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 15×21 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 19×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 15×10 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 17×11 (basement)
- Office: 9×10 (main floor)
- Utility room: 8×12 (second floor)
- Utility room: 10×11 (basement)
hahaha yeah right
Was expecting a converted two-flat, not a pop-top bungalow.
Agree with Sonies.
This “open” concept thing is now completely ludicrous…. Completely no delineation between the living area, and dining area. lots of wasted open space between those two area that they just filled up by tossing some chairs in between. Anyone else think its complete overkill these days? They might as well just move into a warehouse or empty storefront.
Not to mention, the price is overkill too. $875k for a bungalow that they paid $380k for just 1.5 years ago.
Well, the other thing about some of the “open concept” rehabs (not necessarily this particular one, but in general) is that you should probably include a structural engineer in the home inspection process. I actually had a friend who bought a home (not in Chicago), that had many interior walls removed. A few months later the roof started to sag and they had a major repair on their hands!
Also, if you bought this, wouldn’t you have the most expensive house on the block by about $100K There are a handful of new construction jobbers in the $1MM+ arena in the surrounding area but they are bigger….I feel like you never want to be the person whose home costs substantially more than everyone elses’ especially since the next highest sale within a few blocks of this place for the past year was under $770k, and if you don’t mind a project, apparently there are many to be had for well under $500K.
If your kid gets into Northside College Prep this is a pretty great location. Little bit of a hike to the brown line, but completely do-able. nice proximity to Winnemac park….
This place is aggressively beige (and yet still pretty odd), but if my kid were at NSCP and we valued reasonable proximity, I’d take it all day long over the featured property:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2958-W-Catalpa-Ave-60625/home/144946683
This is my hood, and I predict this goes for about 800K, maybe 825K. As The Cat says above, there is some new construction in the 1.2-1.3M range, but it’s way bigger. (And takes a while to sell.)
I love the neighborhood, and prices are definitely going up now that Chappell is getting popular with the stroller set. And this particular house is just a 5 minute stumble from Half Acre. But 875K does seem like a stretch.
Regardless, at this price point I would expect a nicer fence…
Wow, another overpriced, gray, walls blown out, charm-removed bungalow flip. One just sold next door to me for $775k. Highest SFH purchase to date in this neighborhood, giving us neighbors a good laugh. Having been witness to the construction, we’re fully expecting issues to crop up.
“expect a nicer fence”
Why replace a perfectly functional fence? That new fence would take my guys almost a whole day to put up–why take that money out of my pocket??
(I had totally not noted the fence before)
Guessing that *every* hidden thing in the house was assessed with the same logic. Hard, hard pass.
Have a similar sort of reno near me–much bigger and 2x the price; much nicer interior finishes, too–and having witnessed the exterior construction practices, sort of feel bad for the eventual buyer.
@Jess and anon (tfo) – – nailed it. The fence is the right in front of your nose evidence of the important corners you cannot see that were definitely cut.
Also – – I recollect this area has basement flooding issues…has that been resolved or will someone who looks at this place this weekend be greeted by a lot of fans and a dehumidifier running in the basement?
Keeping that fence up is a joke. Probably cost $500 to replace it.
The problem is that the typical consumer doesn’t place a lot of value on quality work…
I recall a developer who did a unit I had looked at where he went out doing quality work. I mean the quality of the work was superb. Solid core doors. Heavy fixtures. Electrical. Plumbing redone out to the street. High grade insulation and windows so the unit was practically sound proof. Brick tuckpointed sealed. I think he even had some concrete laid in floor or something done so you couldn’t hear people walking above you.
Having been in countless condos / rehabs, I could immediately tell the difference. Everything was top notch.
The guy lost his shirt…. no one wanted to pay the premium required to do all the work. Price had to come down to match the pickup truck rehabs with Chinese drywall and home depot fixtures of the other condos in the neighborhood.
People say the want high quality work, but rarely are the actually willing to pay for it. It is easier to just put lipstick on a pig with paint and the latest countertop.
“Also – – I recollect this area has basement flooding issues…has that been resolved or will someone who looks at this place this weekend be greeted by a lot of fans and a dehumidifier running in the basement?”
I think it’s hit or miss; haven’t heard of it being worse than other neighborhoods. Our basement has never flooded.
@The Cat – Re: flooding in the area. The Albany Park flood relief tunnel was completed last year and found to be successful so far, even with this very rainy Spring. Not sure if this house would’ve experienced any of that regular flooding.
Too funny about the fence. A crappy eyesore of a chain-link fence was a point of contention between the next-door flippers and myself. Of course they saw no need to change it. Held their first open house weekend, new cedar fence was slapped up by next Friday. And truly “slapped up”. But I’ll take it over what was there.
Parts of Bowmanville are relatively high up (for Chicago) so they might now have had flooding issues, but then again, there’s more to it than just elevation obviously.
“Parts of Bowmanville are relatively high up (for Chicago) so they might now have had flooding issues. . . ”
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What are you babbling about? Higher elevations have FEWER flooding problems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!