Live Steps From the Blue Line and Bucktown Restaurants in a 2-Bedroom Duplex Up: 2130 W. North Avenue
This modern 2-bedroom duplex up at 2310 W. North Avenue in Bucktown came on the market in May 2013.
It has contemporary finishes throughout.
The kitchen is along one wall except for a small counter at one end with a wine fridge.
It has espresso cabinets, stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops.
The bathrooms are also upgraded with features like a rain shower with body spray.
The master bedroom is on the second floor and is open to the living room below.
There is also a private deck on the second floor.
It has a heated attached garage space, central air and washer/dryer in the unit.
These units were new construction in 2008.
Listed at $510,000, it has been reduced to $499,000.
Will pricing it under $500,000 bring in a whole new pool of buyers?
Bari Levine at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Or you can see it at the Open House this Sunday, July 28 from 11- 1 PM.
Unit #303: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, duplex up, no square footage listed
- Sold in January 2009 for $515,000
- Originally listed in May 2013 for $510,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $499,000
- Assessments of $276 a month
- Taxes of $8145
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- Heated garage parking included
- Bedroom #1: 23×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 12×11 (first floor)
It would probably not be good for resale, but I’d like it more if they axed the second bedroom completely and just had an enormous living area – great for parties. This looks like the sort of place a well off single person or couple who really loves to entertain might want.
“well off single person or couple who really loves to entertain might want”
I think that’s the problem, the well off singles/couples who loves to entertain will probably live in Gold Coast, lincoln park, river north, old town…
I associate wicker park with “functional and value” home owners.
“I associate wicker park with “functional and value” home owners.”
Really? I can see people with artistic / creative pretensions going for this neighborhood over the ones you listed.
Let’s call this place as it is, which is really a 1 bedroom plus den. A room off the living/dining/kitchen with glass doors is not well suited to a bedroom. Clearly, once this couple had a child they were ready to move and I see why. $500k sure seems like a lot to me, but maybe someone will go for it.
agree with mh, take down that 2nd bedroom……but then it becomes a very expensive one bedroom apartment in bucktown…..
“Let’s call this place as it is, which is really a 1 bedroom plus den.”
you have to keep it a 2 bedroom so that you can get two young twentysomethings who want to enjoy trendy Wicker Park/Bucktown to split the rent you will require when you become a reluctant landlord .
I toured a “3” bedroom townhouse earlier this year and it was really like a 2bedroom + 2 foyers
hate when they pull that shit
I lived two blocks from here before I moved to NYC. My building was all young professionals, which I think represents the overall area. The falafel spot across the street is top notch. I loved the area, close to loop, airport and heart of Bucktown/WP.
Kitchen doesn’t look very functional, with it basically all a line (no work triangle, no island, etc. to separate from living space. And agree about 2nd BR. Could be an office, den, media room, etc. but given its location and lack of windows it’s not a practical bedroom.
I’m constantly amazed at the poor floorplans/layouts of new developments… do the lending institutions who approve loans ever take a look at plans and consider those in approving loans?
Seems like the 2009 price was way too high and a 2013 price should be maybe 15% or so off that price. Anything above $450k seems like too much to me.
“I associate wicker park with “functional and value” home owners.”
Bizarre!
Looking at the floorplan, looks like about 1250 (amybe 1300) interior sf. Is anything in WP selling for ~$400 psf?
Also would blow out the mainfloor walls and open up the space, if possible.
It blows my mind that somebody paid $515 for this in 2009.
Bucktown sucks back then and still sucks now.
“Groove77 (July 26, 2013, 4:47 pm)”
They furlough you from teh work farm for the weekend?
I have a certain image of the new Bucktonian. Rubber wellies, subscription to Dwell, went to Northwestern and seriously overpaid for their habitation.
Still, I’ve always thought the heartland of Bucktown (i.e., not North Ave.) was pretty and had decent urbanism.
“I toured a “3? bedroom townhouse earlier this year and it was really like a 2bedroom + 2 foyers”
2 foyers = *at least* 1 bed + den. They were being conservative.
how on earth is this bucktown? south border is either armitage or bloomingdale depending on who you ask, definitely not north ave. it’s wicker park, but some realtor decided bucktown sounded better I guess.
Bucktown’s southern border is North ave, never met anyone who thought otherwise.
I agree with nonya. Back in the old days Bucktown went south to Bloomingdales although classic Bucktown was north of Armitage.
“2 foyers = *at least* 1 bed + den. They were being conservative.”
not if they’re on much different floors…
Must have been some oooollllldddeeennnn days.
The first floor is like living in a kitchen. Oh wait, it is living in a kitchen!
Bucktown!
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2068-N-Leavitt-St-60647/home/40256748
Lived in the area closer to Ashland with a true 2bd 2bath duplex. My unit led up to a large office area that made it a second living area. That was back in the early 2000’s. The space was great and hood was improving. Sold that one for $430k and this is smaller and west of Damen. If it breaks 500k then I guess that I should have kept that place as a rental.
Wicker Park/Bucktown/whatever used to be the bastion of the working class with the occasional upscale enclaves like “Beer Baron Row.” Now it’s the bastion of trust-fund hipsters.
I went to a scrumptious Korean place in Bucktown a couple of weeks ago called En Hakkore:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/en-hakkore-chicago-2