Crib Chatter

This brick Victorian 3-bedroom 2-flat at 2232 W. Lyndale in Bucktown just came on the market for $442,000. I know many of you are looking for 2-flats so you can live in one unit and rent out the other. This building was built in 1891 on a smaller than standard Chicago lot of 24×100. However, […]

This 3-bedroom vintage rowhouse at 1840 W. Wabansia in Bucktown has been on the market since September 2011. Built in 1893 on a smaller than standard 24×80 lot, it supposedly was a former 2-flat which was converted into a single family home. There’s now a big master suite with bathroom and lots of closets on […]

This 2-bedroom loft at 1521 N. Milwaukee in Bucktown just came on the market. At 1600 square feet, it has high ceilings but no exposed brick or timber beams. Instead, it has a modern, sleek look with exposed ductwork. The kitchen has dark cabinets (black?), stainless steel appliances, granite counter tops and what looks like […]

This 3-bedroom cottage at 2225 W. Shakespeare in Bucktown has been on the market since September 2011. In that time it has been reduced $24,000 to $575,000. Built in 1891 on a smaller than standard Chicago lot measuring 24×100, it has a new 2-car garage. Two of the three bedrooms are on the second floor […]

There are the gritty lofts and there are the classy lofts. This top floor 3-bedroom at 2035 W. Charleston in Bucktown qualifies in the classy category. It has all the features loft lovers look for including 12 foot ceilings, exposed brick, big industrial windows and exposed timber beams. But it also has 2 fireplaces, including […]

This 3-bedroom brick single family home at 2058 N. Leavitt in Bucktown has been on the market since July 2011. In that time, it has been reduced $50,000 to $549,000. Built in 1887 on a smaller than standard 24×100 lot, two of the bedrooms are on the second floor with the third in the lower […]

We first started chattering about this modern new construction single family home, being marketed by North Clybourn Group, at 1214 N. Rockwell in the East Humboldt Park neighborhood, in November 2010. See our prior chatter here. Back then, some of you were into it. After all it was a new construction house that was listed for […]

This 3-bedroom in the mid-rise condo building of the Urban Sandbox development at 1615 N. Wolcott in Bucktown just came on the market. This 8-unit building was originally marketed in 2007 but this unit didn’t sell until February 2010. The architect was Miller Hull and in 2009 it won the Builder’s Choice Urban Infill Grand […]

I saw the movie “The Vow” over the weekend. It is set in Chicago (and actually uses quite a few Chicago scene-scapes.) Whatever you might think about the actual movie- how could you not fall in love with the loft-style house the main characters live in somewhere on the “north side”? (yes- I know it’s not “real” […]

We last chattered about this 3-bedroom Bucktown brick single family home at 1641 N. Claremont in March 2010. See our prior chatter here. It came on the market in October 2008 and has been on and off ever since. I didn’t have an exterior picture of it then and I STILL don’t have one. Sorry. […]