Crib Chatter

Thanks goes out to the eagle eye of a dedicated Crib Chatter reader who recognized this contemporary 5-bedroom house at 2820 N. Paulina in Lakeview from our prior chatter of it in 2008 and 2009. See our June 2008 chatter here. It recently came back on the market and is now bank owned (with the […]

This 3-bedroom penthouse loft at 3133 N. Lakewood in Lakeview just came on the market. It has 15-foot ceilings and walls of windows with Southeast views of the city. Is this an addition to the top of the building? It doesn’t have any of the features you’d find in an older loft building such as walls […]

This 2-bedroom at 2821 N. Cambridge in East Lakeview just came on the market but it was also listed in 2012. You can’t see the old listing history in the Redfin listing because it came on the market this time as Unit #1 when last year it was listed as Unit #1N. The building was […]

We last chattered about this top floor 2-bedroom at 3236 N. Seminary in Lakeview in April 2013. See our prior chatter here. Back then, some of you thought this was priced too high at $449,000 for a 2/2. Others thought that with the hot market it would still sell quickly. However, it’s still available and was […]

The amazing thing about running this website is when properties that we chattered about previously come back on the market to try again. This 2-bedroom at 2944 N. Broadway in Lakeview is one of those. We first chattered about it all the way back in September 2008. See our old chatter here. Back then, when […]

  This 2-bedroom duplex at 3700 N. Lake Shore Drive in Lakeview came on the market in March 2013. It was reduced several times but still didn’t sell. The listing was removed and re-listed with brand new photographs. Even though only minor details were changed with the actual property (i.e. a rug was removed in the […]

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom top floor vintage unit at 411 W. Briar in Lakeview in 2009 and 2010. See our original chatter about it in August 2009 here. Back then, it was listed for $535,000 and we debated whether it would sell for around $500,000 given that it was a 4-bedroom unit with […]

We first chattered about this top floor vintage 3-bedroom at 814 W. Roscoe in Lakeview in 2010 and then again in September 2012 when it came back on the market to try again. See the September 2012 chatter here. Despite a $20,000 reduction last fall, it didn’t sell. It has come back on to test […]

This penthouse 2-bedroom in the Green Brier at 559 W. Surf in East Lakeview just came on the market. But if it looks familiar, it’s because we chattered about it for several years in the 2010-2011 period. See our January 2011 chatter here. Back in 2010-2011, many of you thought it was overpriced at $299,900 […]

This 2-bedroom triplex corner loft in the Postcard Lofts at 1733 W. Irving Park Road in Lakeview just came on the market. Few of you would remember that we chattered about it nearly 6 years ago- in October 2007. The interior of the loft now looks remarkably similar to what it looked like back then. Check […]