Get More For Your Money in North Center: 1830 W. Oakdale
While some search for the elusive “affordable” single family home in Lincoln Park, there is lovely housing stock further north from which to choose such as this 4-bedroom home at 1830 W. Oakdale in North Center.
The house has 3-bedrooms located on the top floor, with skylights, and one on the lower level, which is not considered a basement according to the listing. It also has the all-important 2 full-sized bathrooms.
The kitchen has stainless steel appliances, granite counter tops and 42 inch cabinets. There is also a built-in hutch.
If you need outdoor space, the house has a large deck and a nice garden out back.
The property is now listed $75,150 under the 2007 purchase price.
Gary Lucido at Lucid Realty has the listing. See more pictures here.
1830 W. Oakdale: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, no square footage listed, 2 car garage
- Sold in April 1995 for $264,000
- Sold in April 1998 for $340,000
- Sold in May 2000 for $444,000
- Sold in February 2003 for $492,000
- Sold in July 2007 for $700,000
- Originally listed in March 2009 for $724,850
- Reduced several times
- Currently listed for $624,850
- Taxes of $7459
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 15×12
- Bedroom #2: 15×9
- Bedroom #3: 10×7
- Bedroom #4: 11×10 (lower level)
Gary:
Is is a correct assumption that the 03 buyer did some reno on teh place? What did they do, if you know.
I’d be surprised if this sells for over 550k
10×7 = bedroom?
looks like its competitively priced for the area. a beautiful home! I like it (in a dumb and dumber voice) A LOT!
the scariest thing is that in this day and age a frame, vinyl sided home is competitively price at 625k?
03 price looks about right
This is what happens when 3/2 condos are $500k+ at the end of the block. You look at the condo and say to yourself (in 2007) “for $140k more, we can have a house we can live in for 20 years”. But then you “need” to move in 2 years, and you take a bath–not that you wouldn’t have with the 3/2 at Oakdale & Damen, too.
Love the hood. With 2B/2B townhomes selling for around 400K, across the street, I would think this place would get over 600K easy.
By the way, Google map/Satellite view the neighbor on the corner (Oakdale and Honroe). Now that is a HUGE lot with a real yard.
Which do I love more, “teal” or “aqua”?
I always think of this hood as a bit of a no man’s land, No easy L line access, a stone’s throw from the projects and the neighborhood school is less than desirable. On the plus side, I guess you could walk to costco! Don’t think they’ll get anymore than $550,000.
Just now catching up for the day. Anon, the ’03 buyers did the rehab work.
The neighborhood is awesome, surrounded by one way streets, courtesy of the alderman that lived/lives at the end of Honore. Not a lot of through traffic.
And speaking of the Alderman and the large lot across the street from their house…there is a story that the large lot was acquired by the developer of Landmark Village and that the Alderman’s (who helped push through Landmark Village) house was built by the same.
Didn’t fully answer anon’s question. They redid the upstairs bathroom and put in the spa shower, they reconfigured the upstairs bedrooms, and they redid the kitchen. Also, the deck looks like it’s about that old so I bet that was built also.
“And speaking of the Alderman ”
Ex-Alderman, no? You’re referring to Matlak, I think.
The 32d has absolutely absurd boundaries–Chicago Ave from Damen-Western, most of Goose Island–but not the area in between–chucnks of Sheffield, but not nearly continuous and all of Roscoe Village.
Thanks Gary. I’d like this place a lot more at $100k less (which is about how much too much I think the 03 buyer paid, based on teh work they put in–not that they didn’t come out ahead), even tho I think it’s priced about right for what has been selling.
Gary,
Kudos on getting your client to actually understand that real estate values have fallen since 2007/2008. I’m sure its a hard pill to swallow for them.
Although I think 625k is high for a house of this size, this listing seems to be on par with the competition and doesn’t have any major issue with it.
My guess is it goes at or above ask once its featured on HGTV. Not sure if Gary was responsible for landing the HGTV spot or not but if so he more than earned his commission right there.
“Kudos on getting your client to actually understand that real estate values have fallen since 2007/2008.”
My clients are way smarter than average 🙂
“Not sure if Gary was responsible for landing the HGTV spot or not but if so he more than earned his commission right there.”
Wish I could take credit for that but my client did that herself.
“Kudos on getting your client to actually understand that real estate values have fallen since 2007/2008”
ditto for me too Mr. Lucido, if we decide to move i would love to have you as our agent.
Groove – Don’t forget about M Grecco. You might need someone to go online and insult anyone chatting about your place.
AK49,
I will use Mario Grieco for selling my place, cuase he will list it 50% above actuall market value and it still will sell!
“You might need someone to go online and insult anyone chatting about your place”
haven’t decided if its a good thing or bad thing yet.
but seriously, if we do decide to move i will be contacting Gary lucido first.
regarding the funky streets, I’m familiar with the alderman story, but it’s not Matlak (the streets way pre-date him) it might be Bernie Hansen or someone like that.
Lake View as a whole has a lot of bizarro one-way streets, and my personal favorites, the streets which go only one direction one way and then only one direction in the opposite.
groove,
The 50% inflated list price is necessary to allign with the 50% inflation in the sq. footage.
“The 50% inflated list price is necessary to allign with the 50% inflation in the sq. footage.”
Hilarious!!!
thats why i love crib chatter, entertainment and knowledge all in one easy package.
thank you tom for the morning laugh 🙂
“Kudos on getting your client to actually understand that real estate values have fallen since 2007/2008?
Not that I don’t share the love for Gary, but…
He listed it for more than the 2007 prior sale price over 200 days ago and appears to be chasing the market down. I guess describing the clients with a relative statement (“way smarter than average”)was purposeful and goes a long way toward explaining the decisions made by most in the bubble.
It also explains how MG can pull off what he does.
G,
Thanks for the love 🙂 I was actually waiting for someone to make a comment about my original list price on this place and the trend since then. With the benefit of hindsight….However, as soon as I put it on the market we had a brokers’ open and the feedback was 699. We cut the price to that pretty quickly and have had a ton of showings all along. There have been some interesting dymanics in the market during this time period. Our competition for this place has surprisingly come from regions much further west or north than I would have expected. One of the great appeals of this place to the current owners has been the neighborhood and I would have expected that to translate to others as well. I disagree with Trudi’s comment on the proximity to the projects. In fact, this block is very well insulated. It has a really great neighborhood feel.
“I disagree with Trudi’s comment on the proximity to the projects.”
Missed that previously. I agree with Gary about insulation from the projects, but I agree with Trudi about much of the rest (except price, altho $550 would prob get it sold quite quickly)–the area’s not my cup (looked at a few places around here when we were looking), but that’s not to say it’s not “nice”, just not my preference.
I can’t wait until there is a closing price on this as I have long suspected there is some sort of premium priced into those properties featured on HGTV. I like to think of it as the “suburban/Winnetka wife of CEO who watches HGTV” premium (and who has an ample allowance to keep her occupied and not nagging her husband).
There are probably a bunch of rich people out there who would never bother to surf the MLS like we do but might be interested in buying a place they see on TeeVee.
I see that the master was decorated by Frank Fontana of HGTV, but does anyone know specifically which show? No big deal, just curious.
Bob,
where have ya been, ive have been waiting for you to bash the brick 2flat on SoPo.
“There are probably a bunch of rich people out there who would never bother to surf the MLS like we do but might be interested in buying a place they see on TeeVee”
thats a good question for an agent to answer about thier “rich” clients.
Hi, yes-the owners are my neighbors. They were on the show Design on a Dime, but I do not believe it has aired yet. I will ask her.
Thanks, Jen!
“I can’t wait until there is a closing price on this as I have long suspected there is some sort of premium priced into those properties featured on HGTV”
No, my place was on HGTV but the people that looked at it hated it lol! Stupid bitch, I wanted to punch her 😛
Oh and I found out the place was on HGTV like 3 months after I bought the place… the price they were asking on the show was waaaay higher than we paid
gasp! (kitchen color)
“gasp! (kitchen color)”
That Frank dude on Design on a Dime SUCKS! That kitchen was probably described as “Tiffany blue.” I think it’s a good diet plan, because you would never want to be in a kitchen that color.
This is my old house! We were the 2000 owners. It’s a GREAT neighborhood. Close walk to Jewel and the PO and Baskin Robbins. Close (but not too close) to the Kennedy. The house used to have a great layout before HGTV got a hold of it and did a chop job on the upstairs. The paint is horrific too. That being said, it was an EXTREMELY well-built house, very sunny and cheery and the back yard has a beautiful giant tree. I hope whoever buys it will love it as much as we did.