Get a Southport Corridor 2/2 With Garage Parking for $549,000: 3306 N. Clifton
This 2-bedroom at 3306 N. Clifton in the Southport neighborhood of Lakeview came on the market in August 2020.
Built in 1998, this 6-unit building has garage parking.
This unit has hardwoods throughout.
The kitchen has white cabinets, granite counter tops, a tile backsplash, stainless steel appliances and a breakfast bar.
The kitchen is open to the combined living and dining room which has a fireplace and built-ins.
The primary bedroom is en-suite with an upgraded bath that has granite counter tops and double vanity sinks.
The listing says there’s a brand new furnace and a/c.
It also says there’s a 50-gallon hot water heater that is 5 years old.
The unit has a big private back deck.
It also has the features buyers look for including central air, washer/dryer in the unit and garage parking is included.
The listing says the building was tuck pointed in 2020 and was sealed 5 years ago.
Listed at $549,000, that is $149,000 above the 2015 purchase price of $400,000.
The 2/2 north side condo was a big seller during the housing bubble years.
Is it still in demand in 2020?
Erin Murphy-Retzloff at Coldwell Banker has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #2N: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, no square footage listed
- Sold in June 1998 for $273,500
- Sold in July 2003 for $395,000
- Sold in August 2006 for $425,000
- Sold in October 2015 for $400,000
- Originally listed in August 2020 for $549,000
- Currently still listed at $549,000
- Assessments of $168 a month (includes exterior maintenance, scavenger)
- Taxes of $5657
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Garage parking included
- Gas fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 15×12
- Bedroom #2: 12×12
- Living/dining room: 20×19
- Kitchen: 15×10
- Back deck
A 5 year old 50 gallon water heater? Take my money
Not feeling a 30% increase in 5 years. Tho it does have the CC must haves – TV over fireplace, micro hood, diagonal wood flooring and a $50 shower head to give that spa like feel. Seller is either highly delusional or trying to get back every penny they put into the place – Furnace, HW, condenser, tuck pointing, sealing, HOA & Property Taxes. This screams $425-$450k
Reserves have to be close to $0. Would want to make sure I wasn’t carrying the freight for the tuckpoint going forward.
Including every deal breaker JohnnyU mentioned above, it’s a second floor unit in a cardboard 6 flat. Noise from above, below, and across the hall, where the strollers are parked. Run away.
The 2015 price seems about right for this place. 550k is bananas.
Check out what 500k gets you less than 2 miles away on Belmont:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2312-W-Belmont-Ave-60618/unit-2E/home/104002535
Sure, you can’t play bumper strollers with the yoga moms on Southport but is that really such a bad thing?
Cookie cutter place with cookie cutter finishes . . . why on earth would anyone pay over $450 for this? $475 tops just because they really like the area.
Nyet – – I say Nyet to that listing. A) It’s on Belmont; B) It’s on Belmont right near Clybourn; C) You have to look at that facade. Hideous.
Yes – – way better finishes, but also getting rather cookie cutter. I know people who purchased in similar hunks of junk reporting construction defects two years in so a thorough investigation of the contractor and their previous projects would be warranted…Nyet thank you.
3N (with a bonus room and rooftop deck) sold for $532 2 years ago:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/3306-N-Clifton-Ave-60657/unit-3N/home/12572884
1N, a duplex down with porch pit, sold for $680k 16 months ago:
http://www.redfin [dot] com/IL/Chicago/3306-N-Clifton-Ave-60657/unit-1N/home/12793271
Agree $475, tops.
[dopey on taking out 2d link…so repost]
3N (with a bonus room and rooftop deck) sold for $532 2 years ago:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/3306-N-Clifton-Ave-60657/unit-3N/home/12572884
1N, a duplex down with porch pit, sold for $680k 16 months ago:
www [dot] redfin [dot] com/IL/Chicago/3306-N-Clifton-Ave-60657/unit-1N/home/12793271
Agree $475, tops.
Re 3306: Jeez, how did I miss the Deck access thru the BR. Got to give the Realatard credit, did a good job hiding it.
Re Belmont property – You’re getting an extra BR as well
“how did I miss the Deck access thru the BR”
based on floorplans with both 1 & 3, think there is both access from BR AND hall.
Replying to The Cat:
A) It’s on Belmont;
That is a pretty mellow 2 lane stretch of Belmont.
B) It’s on Belmont right near Clybourn;
Its also a short walk to Roscoe Village, which some prefer to the Southport Corridor, myself included.
C) You have to look at that facade. Hideous.
Subjective. It looks fairly standard to me.
-There is no evidence the place on Belmont has any defects and I agree that a buyer needs to perform due diligence on the developer.
“based on floorplans with both 1 & 3, think there is both access from BR AND hall.”
I think you are correct
“That is a pretty mellow 2 lane stretch of Belmont.”
Depends. It’s Diversey-level bad with back-ups when Lane Tech is actually open.
“Its also a short walk to Roscoe Village, which some prefer to the Southport Corridor, myself included.”
Picking on Clybourn proximity here is silly–the issue is Western. May be less bad, depending on what goes into the 4 (of 5) empty corners (only one under construction) at Belmont/Western/Clybourn.
Clifton place is actually closer to Clark than Southport, so has more (if not better) options close by. This stretch of Belmont has been fairly sparse on non-service retail since the antique stores all left ~20 years ago.
@anon – “Clifton place is actually closer to Clark than Southport”. Yeah, I tend to thing of SoPoCo as going Racine to Ashland at most, not all the way to Clifton. This is closer to the Wrigleyville bar strip than SoPoCo
This isn’t SoPoCo. Which in a weird way in this being 2020 may work to it’s advantage: SoPoCo is getting devastated with retail closures.
I haven’t seen a street as gentrified as SoPo getting hit with this level of closures with Schoolyard Tavern being the latest victim right after Southport Lanes. But at least we all know of one tenet who will survive: Amazon bricks and mortar store for your returns.
This building looks like your standard 90s construction with cinder-block sides & all with the accompanying water infiltration issues.
So generic. Good location, but nothing here speaks to me. Neither the building (which resembles hundreds of others) or the unit. Too vanilla for the price.
“I haven’t seen a street as gentrified as SoPo getting hit with this level of closures with Schoolyard Tavern being the latest victim right after Southport Lanes. But at least we all know of one tenet who will survive: Amazon bricks and mortar store for your returns.”
Bob hasn’t lived in Chicago for a long, long time.
The Amazon store in Southport is a bookstore which also sells the latest hot gadgets. It isn’t going anywhere even though it’s probably not profitable.
None of the national chains are going anywhere. But, sadly, the local stores and restaurants can’t hold on. They need help from Congress. They don’t have deep enough pockets like the chains.
Lots of taverns/pubs around the city won’t make it, especially those that didn’t serve food. They’ve been shut for far too long and they can’t make it at just 25% or 40% capacity.
Actually, Southport retail/restaurants are surviving better through this than some other areas. Who knows how long that will last but they’re hanging on.
“Bob hasn’t lived in Chicago for a long, long time.”
Sabrina’s latest schtick to accompany her bullish outlook is to claim to be the authority on who lives in the city. If Sabrina claims something it must be true.
“None of the national chains are going anywhere.”
I don’t think the Capital One cafe is what makes the Southport corridor special, but perhaps to some. The death of non-chain stores will mark the death of the city. Again I can goto a Capital One cafe or Chipotle in Schaumberg or Arlington Heights.
“I don’t think the Capital One cafe is what makes the Southport corridor special, but perhaps to some.”
Please, pray tell. Tell us all what non-chain store makes the Southport corridor “special”?
The Potbelly’s? (which, at least, is a local chain)
The neighborhoods with the real danger are those without as many chains as Southport, which is mostly chains. It’s like North and Clybourn. They’re not going anywhere unless they’ve already gone under like Forever21 did before the pandemic. Is anyone worried about the health of North and Clybourn? I don’t think so.
Doesn’t make them any less valuable to a neighborhood just because they’re national chains. The Anthropologie in Southport has been there over a decade. Clearly SOMEONE is shopping there and enjoys it. It anchors the neighborhood.
You know what’s amazing about the big cities right now, including Chicago?
That restaurants and stores are STILL opening right now despite the pandemic and these horrible economic conditions for them.
Seems nuts to me, but I’ll support any business who has the guts to open right now.
So, Bob, if you think the city is going to “die” maybe you should talk to some of these entrepreneurs. They see opportunity where you see doom and gloom.
“Tell us all what non-chain store makes the Southport corridor “special”?”
You just want someone to go to the Lake View Chamber webpage and give you a list of what’s there that isn’t a chain (of more than ~5 locations) business?
Are you for real?
In any case, I won’t believe that Southport Lanes is *really* closing permanently until they’re at least removing the lanes. Remember how the Berghoff was closing ‘permanently’?
“You just want someone to go to the Lake View Chamber webpage and give you a list of what’s there that isn’t a chain (of more than ~5 locations) business?”
“She” is off her rocker. Assuming the person behind the keyboard is actually a person, an adult, a female & an American that lives in Chicagoland. None of which can be determined.
The Googler bot that is Sabrina is shining through.
I am glad you finally did a story on this building after my top two months ago
““She” is off her rocker. Assuming the person behind the keyboard is actually a person, an adult, a female & an American that lives in Chicagoland. None of which can be determined.”
This is more sexism, this time from Bob the Bear. Not surprising. So typical.
When men can’t stand a woman who is in control, they have to attack her. In this situation, it’s once again that I’m not a female (which has been stated on this blog for the entire 13 years it’s been operating.) Heaven forbid a woman should run a successful blog. Gasp.
But now Bob has to go one step further with his sexism. He has to say I’m not even a real person. For some reason, Bob believes a “bot” has been running this site for 13 years from some far away fantasy land. For some fantasy reason.
It’s laughable.
Tells you how deeply ingrained Bob’s sexism is.
As I’ve said many times, “voice” is very powerful on the Internet. It’s pretty obvious who are the men and who are the women on this site. Remember all the fake names HH has used over the years to post comments on the site? All of you could pick out that it was him from just one posted comment! You would send me e-mails saying, “Dan is now XYZ on the site.” And, sure enough, he was.
So, the “Sabrina is a man” thing didn’t work out because it’s clear I’m not a man.
And now I have to be a fake person of some sort or else the sexism doesn’t work. Because, again, a woman can’t run a successful blog.
Pathetic.
“You just want someone to go to the Lake View Chamber webpage and give you a list of what’s there that isn’t a chain (of more than ~5 locations) business?”
I go there quite often. I can’t think of a single non-chain retailer that I go to there.
I’m either at JCrew, Anthro, Gap, Athleta.
There’s some non-chain restaurants that I like. But it’s always hit or miss on that street. It’s been turning over for some time from those old taverns into the new, trendy restaurants. Inevitable.
“And now I have to be a fake person of some sort or else the sexism doesn’t work. Because, again, a woman can’t run a successful blog.”
It’s more of you weren’t passing the Turing test for being so anonymous & so generic. Quite possible Googs AI at this point could be at that point given lack of specificity (and even in 2007).
But then…
“I’m either at JCrew, Anthro, Gap, Athleta.”
Yes you are now passing it with flying colors & was my perception. Generic suburban female chain-store shopper. Explains it.
“It” being we know a thing or two specifically about every long-time poster even though everyone continues to remain anonymous personally that chooses to. You, OTOH, never quite fit that. Okay your ma got covid and (thankfully) got through it but that has nothing to do with real estate, neighborhoods, etc.
I don’t know anyone who goes to SoPoCo for the chain stores. The city dwellers I know who go there go for the restaurants or small mom & pop shops, Amazon for Amazon returns and Amazon or online for their chain retail needs.
As for old taverns have you seen how bustling the corridor actually is pre-covid? Schubas outdoor space was packed and far more gentrified than even a few years ago. I sometimes walk there for any Amazon returns and almost the entire corridor is gentrified AF with tons of pedestrian traffic, crazily so in immediate vicinity of the el stop. Last holdouts from the past are that auto mechanic place on Diversey & Lang’s bar on Cornelia.
Now all of that is at risk.
Today on Western I noticed another closure like I do almost daily: in a strip mall on Western. Famous Taco Burrito bit the dust. Little over a year ago there were five retail tenets in that strip mall, now only Subway remains. It’s a retail apocalypse and this will have broad implications for RE valuations in the future.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9470335,-87.6881829,3a,75y,82.76h,82.13t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1saQzoyT00zzEZstb9Ru6shA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DaQzoyT00zzEZstb9Ru6shA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D13.70591%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192
“So, the “Sabrina is a man” thing didn’t work out because it’s clear I’m not a man.”
The JoeZ comments were do to your constant shilling.
If you’re going to lie, at least make it believable
“Famous Taco Burrito bit the dust. Little over a year ago there were five retail tenets in that strip mall, now only Subway remains.”
Either you have tehhof as your spotter, or you didn’t look closely enough.
First, the nail place is still there, so that’s 2 of 5.
Second, one of the closures was bc of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger–they kept the Boost/Cricket store a block south (next to the Dunkin and the closed Chase) instead.
Third, the big vacancy was a currency exchange that closed well before covid. Their lease expired, and the space was way too big for what the neighborhood is like now and the size of the parking lot.
Yes, it’s highly unlikely that anything moves into those spaces now until at least the spring, but that one center is not a genuine sign of any retail apocalypse.