Crib Chatter

We’ve chattered about this 3-bedroom single family home at 1911 W. Berenice in North Center several times since it first came on the market on November 1, 2011. See our January 2012 chatter here. Originally listed for $545,000 it has now reduced to $515,000. It is now listed $10,000 under the 2004 purchase price. Back […]

We last chattered about this 3-bedroom single family home at 3134 N. Oakley in North Center in September 2011. See our prior chatter here. This is one of those “renovation/flips”. If you remember, this house had been bank owned earlier in 2011 and sold in July 2011 for $285,000. Just weeks later it returned to the market listed […]

We last chattered about this 6-bedroom single family home at 3540 N. Ravenswood in North Center nearly two years ago, in March 2010. See our prior chatter here. Most of you loved the house and said if you won the lottery you were buying it. Yes- it’s a true “crib.” Built in 2007 on a 50×125 […]

This 3-bedroom at 1929 W. Irving Park in North Center has been on the market since October 2011. (It is the vintage building in between the two new construction buildings in the picture above.) It is bank owned and is currently listed for 34% under its 2004 purchase price. According to Case-Shiller, Chicago prices have declined […]

This 2-bedroom brick bungalow at 2500 W. Berteau in North Center recently came on the market. Built in 1921 on a 30×125 corner lot, it is being sold “as-is.” Yes, there are hardwood floors under the green shag carpet. The listing says it has a full unfinished basement and a walk-up attic. The house has […]

We last chattered about this 2-bedroom loft in the Larchmont Lofts at 1801 W. Larchmont in North Center in November 2011. See our prior chatter here. Back then, the loft was listed as a short sale at $225,000 which included the parking. Several of you thought that wasn’t that bad of a deal considering #211, […]

We last chattered about this 3-bedroom single family home at 1911 W. Berenice in North Center in November 2011. See our prior chatter here. I thought this might sell fast because: It was the cheapest single family home in the Bell school district, and It was the cheapest single family home in the Bell school […]

This 3-bedroom single family home at 1911 W. Berenice in North Center recently came on the market. It might not attract any notice in other neighborhoods but at $545,000 it is a rare single family home listed under $550,000 in the Bell school district. Built in 1896 on a standard Chicago lot of 25×125, it […]

This 2-bedroom loft at the Larchmont Lofts at 1801 W. Larchmont in North Center has been on the market since April 2010. It is now a short sale and is listed $104,000 under the 2007 purchase price. The loft has 12 foot concrete ceilings with some exposed brick. It is a south facing unit, so […]

We last chattered about this 5-bedroom rehab mansion at 2216 W. Grace in North Center in February 2011. See our prior chatter here. This house was the subject of much chatter due to its extreme size for the neighborhood (at 8,000 square feet) and that it used to be a 6-flat apartment building. Back then it was […]