Looking For a Big Yard? 1444 W. Glenlake in Edgewater Glen
This 6-bedroom Queen Anne at 1444 W. Glenlake in Edgewater Glen came on the market in August 2010.
It has been reduced $50,100 since then.
Built in 1894, it is on an oversized 45×125 lot which gives you plenty of yard to spread out in.
The house has some of its original features including the clapboard and french windows on the porch.
It also has 2 staircases.
4 of the 6 bedrooms are on the second level with the other 2 on the 3rd floor.
The listing says the kitchen has subzero but I can’t really see that in the pictures (you be the judge.)
The house has space pak cooling but only a 1-car garage.
The listing says the house is in the Pierce school district.
Is this attractively priced at this level for the neighborhood?
John Wyman at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures here.
1444 W. Glenlake: 6 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, no square footage listed, 1 car garage
- Sold sometime before 1986
- Originally listed in August 2010 for $750,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $699,900
- Taxes of $8711
- Space pak cooling
- Bedroom #1: 14×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 14×10 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 10×10 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 12×10 (second floor)
- Bedroom #5: 16×11 (third floor)
- Bedroom #6: 12×11 (third floor)
Just from the pictures it looks like it needs a lot of updating: kitchen looks to be at least 15 years old and I don’t see any pictures of bathrooms , which is always a bad sign. Bones and neighborhood are nice, but price should better reflect the amount of work new owners will have to do.
daliachi, out of curiosity, what do you think a completely updated home in this area would cost?
Some staging would help this tremendously.
Down the street: http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1349-W-Glenlake-Ave-60660/home/18978560
Clio –
Do you consider this to be an updated home?
http://tours7.vht.com/Viewer/PhotoGallery.aspx?ListingID=1241267&Style=IDX
for 671 you get updates, a couple thou more you get a double (eh) lot and need to change a backsplash and appliances….
roma,
I, personally do consider the example you gave to be updated (not fancy, but not dated).
“daliachi, out of curiosity, what do you think a completely updated home in this area would cost?”
2 (somewhat) recent sales went for low to mid 700’s. Completely updated kitchens baths layouts, mechanicals, landscaping. Although the subject property has a bigger yard and is on a better block than the tow I am thinking of…..
dahliachi: Just from the pictures it looks like it needs a lot of updating: kitchen looks to be at least 15 years old and I don’t see any pictures of bathrooms , which is always a bad sign
I’d probably want to combine some of those bedrooms, and add a bath.
Roma, what is the address of that house?
The houses I’m referring to are gut rehabs: far more extreme than updating.
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1526-W-Highland-Ave-60660/home/13414414
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1288-W-Early-Ave-60660/home/13410577/mred-07240108
The houses I’m referring to are gut rehabs: far more extreme than updating.
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1526-W-Highland-Ave-60660/home/13414414
and
1288 W Early. WordPress won’t let me post too many url’s.
“2 (somewhat) recent sales went for low to mid 700’s. Completely updated kitchens baths layouts, mechanicals, landscaping. Although the subject property has a bigger yard and is on a better block than the tow I am thinking of…..
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Then it seems it would be worth it for the current owners to spend 50-75 to update and then relist for 799k.
“Question on November 18th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
Roma, what is the address of that house?”
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1309-W-Glenlake-Ave-60660/home/13413891
“Then it seems it would be worth it for the current owners to spend 50-75 to update and then relist for 799k.”
Bad idea all around.
Longterm owners rarely want to pour money into a house they have lived in for years.
More importantly, a 70k update would make this the most expensive house in the neighborhood. ( real estate rule #2 or #3)
Love, love the house that Roma posted.
Clio, look at the others posted. Even with modest updates and good staging, this place probably can’t sell for much more than about 650K or so unless a buyer comes a long that really, really values the yard.
The house that Roma posted sold very quickly as I recall, whereas other non-updated houses have been sitting around for a while.
I don’t really know a lot about this neighborhood, but some of the houses in this thread have piqued my interest due to the wide lots and wide 4-square layouts. They seem much more rehab-friendly than your average Chicago lot.
What’s the long term outlook of the neighborhood? The prices seem somewhat reasonable too…
Come and see for yourself. I like the neighborhood, have some very good friends who live in Edgewater Glen. Good family neighborhood community and more gay homeowners buy up there when they feel priced out of Andersonville. Peirce is improving and there are a lot of Private options.
Oh and M. Henry just opened a restaurant by the Granville stop.
I agree with you re: the comp’s in the area having updated kitchens but none of them are 6 bedrooms and most don’t have sidelots…What additional price does the 1-2 extra rooms and sidelot bring to this home over the comps?
Anyone know if the ones with side drives can be converted to alley access and the home on the lot expanded onto the existing driveway area?
“Anyone know if the ones with side drives can be converted to alley access and the home on the lot expanded onto the existing driveway area?”
Someone is currently doing this in the 3300 block of Bell. Not the same lot size and possibly not the same zoning, so ymmv for places in Greater A’ville.
The extra bedrooms are just a matter of finishing the attic-most of the big houses up here have attics. And 40’+ wide lots are not uncommon.
This one just sold for 570k. It has a side drive and is big. Needs to be updated big time, but it has more bathrooms than most un-rehabbed houses. (easier to redo a bath than add one to an area that never had one before)
oops- forgot to add link:
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1508-W-Norwood-St-60660/home/13414701/mred-07532018
Interesting factoid-same agent as subject property.
“oops- forgot to add link:”
I guess this is accurate: “Steps to Andersonville, red line, & Lake”.
It is, after all, also steps to the Loop and O’Hare, if one doesn’t mind walking a lot.
You people don’t seem to know anything about this neighborhood. It is about 6 blocks to Andersonville (although why anyone would want to go there now it is yuppified beyond recognition, I don’t know), 3 blocks to the Red Line, 5 blocks to the lake. Not giant long downtown blocks, but blocks you can see from end to end. But for heaven’s sake, don’t move up here. If your imagination can’t go beyond crappy featureless boxes in LP, you won’t be happy here and we won’t be happy to have you.
At the height of the boom, a house on Norwood (a block south of this house) sold for $855K.
This house has lovely period bathrooms, colors most of you would scream at since you all seem to be brainwashed by HGTV bland uniformity. It’s a lovely neighborhood – I have lived here for over 10 years – and this block of Glenlake is easily the nicest in the ‘hood. The house is very pretty (but too much painted woodwork and I have to wonder what was in those huge windows before all that glass block got put in) but the kitchen is an odd shape and definitely doesn’t have all the updates the stainless steel appliance loving automatons want. A kitchen made for servants, which is what this home would have had when built. Homes here have been overpriced for some time, thanks to the mother of the listing agent who has gotten her son into the business and who lives a few doors down from this house. This is an estate sale, the owner having died from pancreatic cancer, so don’t expect any work to be done. There are a number of nice houses in the neighborhood in the $500-$600K range, but they have been sitting which is a good indicator that the market has crashed. People used to pay stupid amounts for houses here, but it seems a harder sell in these desperate times. M. Henriette (a spinoff of M. Henry) is a pox on the neighborhood, installed by a consortium of business people who want to socially engineer the neighborhood to be Lakeview or Wicker Park. Fortunately, trendy people do not want to live here, and I hope the place crashes and burns. Standees (which was denied their lease by this consortium because it didn’t project the image these people wanted, although shutting down a business that has survived for 60 years in the middle of a recession says much about their skill as business people) was a wonderful, equitable greasy spoon, and the food much better than the awful M. Henry in Andersonville. That side of Clark is frequented by a less affluent class of people, and the fact that they can’t give away the condos they built across the street shows that the experiment has already failed.
Don’t any of you people want a house that doesn’t look like every other house gutted into submission for the last 10 years?
I almost bought this house. I’m glad they came down on the price because the new owners have a lot of work to do, and the house deserves it. It would have been unfortunate if they would have maxed on the purchase price and not had enough left in the budget to do the extensive repairs. Congratulations and best wishes with the home. It’s a beautiful place.
Shockingly enough, this house I referenced (1309 Glenlake) is already back on the market…for over 150k more than it sold for last year!
Has there been any real market bounce in 2011?
roma on November 18th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Clio –
Do you consider this to be an updated home?
http://tours7.vht.com/Viewer/PhotoGallery.aspx?ListingID=1241267&Style=IDX
New listing:
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1309-W-Glenlake-Ave-60660/home/13413891
Remarks don’t mention any updates, and pics don’t seem to show anything different other than a little paint, tho I admit I didn’t look too hard
I was the listing agent for 1444 Glenlake and do a lot of business in the area. My family has lived in the neighborhood for 5 generations, and while I may be biased, I believe it to be one of the last true neighborhoods left along the north lakefront. We have traditions of block parties, neighborhood festivals, strong community organizations and active families willing to ensure the future of the neighborhood remains as attractive as the past. If you want to live in an area where you know your neighbors, and you can be a part of a true community, Edgewater/Edgewater Glen could be the neighborhood for you. We have mostly historic homes, rehabbed and vintage condition, with a few newer construction homes sprinkled in. A recent sale of one of our newer construction homes was for over $1.2million.