Crib Chatter

This 1-bedroom unit at 2343 N. Greenview in Lincoln Park has been on and off the market since September 2009. It has been reduced $110,900 in that time. The unit is now listed $11,000 below the 2005 purchase price. It has the amenities buyers look for such as central air, a washer/dryer hook-up in the […]

This 2-bedroom duplex down at 2750 N. Seminary in North Lincoln Park just came on the market. It has been bank owned for 11 months and, until its listing, was a part of the larger “shadow inventory.” These are properties the banks own but have yet to re-list for sale. The listing does not tell […]

We were chattering about a Lincoln Park townhouse at 1814 N. Bissell with the El directly behind it and some were wondering where you could get a similar townhouse in Lincoln Park without the El. Look no further than this 2-bedroom at 1437 W. Altgeld. It is priced nearly exactly the same as the Bissell townhouse: […]

This 2-bedroom townhouse at 1814 N. Bissell in Lincoln Park recently came on the market. It was bank owned in June 2010 and sold for $19,720 under the 1999 sales price. 5 months later, it has come on the market as a gut rehab with a new kitchen and baths. The kitchen now has white […]

This 2-bedroom unit in the Malborough at 400 W. Deming in East Lincoln Park has been on the market since June 2009. It has been reduced $74,000 in that time. Normally, we don’t comment much on the interior design but this is another property where it says it is Nate Berkus designed so it appears to be marketing […]

Do you dream about pizza at Pequod’s? Do you wish you had Starbucks, Potbelly’s and a major movie theater all within a block of where you live? This 2-bedroom duplex up at 2211 N. Clybourn in Lincoln Park is for you. The unit is in short sale and is listed for $15,000 under the 2007 […]

This 2-bedroom unit at 1350 W. Fullerton in Lincoln Park has been on and off the market since July 2009. In that time, the unit has been reduced $69,910. It is now listed for $400 above the 2002 purchase price (when the parking space is included.) The listing says the owner spent $65,000 in upgrades […]

Back in May 2010 we chattered about whether or not it mattered if a property was “Nate Berkus designed” as the listing says it is for this 2-bedroom penthouse at 632 W. Wrightwood in Lincoln Park. See our prior chatter here. Most of you concluded that it didn’t matter so much. 6 months later, the […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 2245 N. Greenview in Lincoln Park has been on the market since April 2010. In that time it has been reduced $55,000. It is now listed for $130,000 under the 2007 purchase price. The house was built in 1989 on a oversized 15×130.6 lot. It has a coach house […]

It’s not often we chatter about an authentic loft like this one in the Piano Factory Lofts at 1335 W. Altgeld in Lincoln Park because Lincoln Park just wasn’t as industrialized as other city neighborhoods. Converted into condos in the early 1990s, these lofts don’t skimp on space. With 10-foot high ceilings, this 1000-square foot 1-bedroom has […]