Live in the Heart of Lincoln Square Overlooking the Fountain: 4738 N. Lincoln
This 2-bedroom unit at 4738 N. Lincoln is located in “prime” Lincoln Square- as it sits directly across from the fountain at Giddings and Lincoln.
Tons of restaurants and stores await right outside your doorway.
Built in 2003, the building has recent amenities including stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops in the kitchen.
There are 2 sets of French doors that open to overlook the fountain and take in the scene.
There is also rare two car parking with this unit (a garage space and a spot on the pad).
This unit is now listed for $8,100 under the 2004 purchase price.
Ashley Carter at Koenig & Strey Real Living has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #2: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, no square footage listed
- Sold in April 2004 for $393,000
- Originally listed in May 2010 for $429,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $384,900
- Assessments of $200 a month
- Taxes of $5011
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer in the Unit
- 2-parking spaces included (garage and pad)
- Bedroom #1: 16×20
- Bedroom #2: 12×12
- Living room: 17×14
- Dining room: 10×12
- Kitchen: 14×16
Those juliet balconies are SO UGLY!
Just put some damn windows instead of doors up there!
Baby needs a yard with green grass in the suburbs!
HIM: Just think honey, we can live above the Brauhaus and get drunk every night.
HER: Yes, what fun. And there’s a fountain.
HIM: Want to get a beer?
HER: I think I’m preggers.
HIM: F*ck.
HER: Yea, we need to move.
not sure what parking spots are worth in lincoln square, and i don’t really know how much people like living near this fountain, but that seems a bit high to me when i do quick mental math of what you could get for that price in a variety of other locations.
especially when you’re getting a 2BR/2BTH that is about as unique as a blade of grass.
I think you’re on to something Jon:
HIM: Just think honey, we can buy with 5% down, using our life savings of $19,000, and then in five years we can flip it for half a million or refinance.
HER: Yes, what fun. Lincoln Sq. is the next Lincoln Park. What could possibly go wrong with our brilliant plan?
“Baby needs a yard with green grass in the suburbs!”
It is interesting that there are 2 separate and opposing views/opinions being expressed on 2 current threads (this one and the 201 chestnut thread). I had expressed my opinion that land might be the way to invest and sent a link to a seemingly great investment in St. Charles ( http://www.redfin.com/IL/Saint-Charles/3N645-Ponderosa-Dr-60175/home/17970713 ) but people on that thread keep bashing the suburbs and saying that nobody is going to move to the suburbs but here people are “bashing” the city. How confusing!!!
Beautiful place. Love that closet!
“How confusing!!!”
Not THAT confusing…..of course there’s a huge difference between:
1) Moving to “The Suburbs”
and
2) Having $600K to buy a big-a$$ parcel of land 15 minutes west of St. Charles
You can find small patches of grass in the city too…
Oh, and on-topic:
I like this place, and I LOVE Lincoln Square, but I just made the transition from “infant-having-Northside-condo-dweller” to “Toddler-having-SFH-owner in Edision Park” and I did it for less than the price of this 2/2.
(BTW, if I had $1.7 mil to spend, I would LOVE that SFH on Giddings. The only drawback for me was the lack of privacy in the back yard)
Can you say shlt box?
Stop with the shitboxes please! please! please!
That does not bode well for $400k condos all over the city.
But then again, everyone here slammed Edison Park so maybe it’s not much of a threat.
For the record, I really like Edison Park.
“I like this place, and I LOVE Lincoln Square, but I just made the transition from “infant-having-Northside-condo-dweller” to “Toddler-having-SFH-owner in Edision Park” and I did it for less than the price of this 2/2.”
Thanks HD, I guess I really meant that I was staunchly PRO “raise my child in a condo in the city” until she started walking, so I switched courses rather quickly, so when others mock the ‘crib in the bedroom’ pics, I can (pitifully) identify.
But yes, didn’t mean to imply that 2/2’s in LS (or anywhere on the northside) in any way equal SFH’s in the NW corner of the city.
This isn’t a shitbox, you are insane
Boring? Yeah a little, but shitbox? no no no
ever been to cedar rapids iowa?
same architecture exactly boring! like you.
Personally, i really like the location. LS has a ton to offer. It’s definitely not a shitbox. Nothing remarkable, but at this price this is what you can expect. I would see this going fairly close to ask, maybe about 375.
love the location. no idea if it’s worth the ask, I’m a house-or-apartment renter kinda guy.
you will have problems getting a man to stay with you
what’s with the window in the kitchen? Is there a back porch, or what?
It looks like there are two units in the building next door for sale as well… how do they compare? I like this location, but not so sure I’d like a 2nd floor unit on a commercial strip like that. Maybe a 3rd or 4th floor…
The end is near….
Clio:
Land investment and development is unbelievably fraught with peril. I looked at your link and I believe your property backs up to the Wasco Sanitary sewage treatment plant – not a great feature for selling single family home lots in the future.
if only I could short sell clio’s portfolio
“Land investment and development is unbelievably fraught with peril. I looked at your link and I believe your property backs up to the Wasco Sanitary sewage treatment plant – not a great feature for selling single family home lots in the future.”
No – the farm is surrounded on 2 sides by the backyards of the million dollar houses in the “fox mill subdivision”. The 3rd side is bordered by a retention pond from an “open area” in the “arbor creek” subdivision and the 4th side borders backyards in unicorporated Campton Hills. The great thing about “the farm” is that it is already zoned R1 and Campton Hills is eager for somebody to develop something on that land (government support – nonfinancial- is KEY in any development project).
“if only I could short sell clio’s portfolio”
unfortunately I am not underwater on any of my properties and cannot walk away from them or “short sell” them. I was one of the idiots who paid 50%down, and thought I was being responsible and careful.
“the farm is surrounded on 2 sides by the backyards of the million dollar houses in the “fox mill subdivision””
Million dollar homes on the market for around $700k?
“Million dollar homes on the market for around $700k?”
unfortunately, yes.
Baby’s room = discount
Well, I guess the young home-buying crowd isn’t as enamored of “green technology in home design” as the developer thought! I remember when the open-house ads were emphasizing the eco-friendly materuials as well as the really cook location.
Because in addition to the fountain square and Bauhaus there are a number of other ethnic restaurants, boutiques and other charms of Lincoln Square.