Crib Chatter

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. […]

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom Sheperd’s Cottage at 2235 W. Homer in Bucktown in February 2011. See our February chatter here. We’ve chattered about this house several times, especially when there was another Sheperd’s Cottage on the market on the same block, at 2233 W. Homer, in 2011. The other house was a 3-bedroom (not […]

This 3-bedroom single family home at 1748 W. Cortland in Bucktown has been on the market since July 2010. In that time it has been reduced just $26,000. The listing says it was custom built by renowned archiect Joe Valerio. The house, on a 24×125 lot, has a 2-story living room with a lofted bedroom. […]

We’ve chattered about this 3-bedroom Victorian storefront at 2075 N. Oakley in Bucktown several times. See our June 2011 chatter here. Back then, it had been reduced another $50,000 to $649,000. Most of you, no surprise, thought it was still overpriced. Some guessed $550k. Some guessed $599k. One said $399k. Since the summer, the unit has […]

This duplex-up 2-bedroom loft in the Clock Tower Lofts at 2300 W. Wabansia in Bucktown has been on the market since March 2011. In that time, it has been reduced about $50,000. It is now listed $53,500 under the 2005 purchase price. The loft has exposed brick and timber ceilings along with a 30-foot wall […]

We last chattered about this 3-bedroom Shepard’s Cottage at 2233 W. Homer in Bucktown in August 2011. See our prior chatter here. At that time, the property had just reduced another $25,000 to $650,000 and then went under contract quickly. Many of you thought the upper $500,000s would get the deal done. The house recently sold […]