Crib Chatter

We last chattered about this vintage 5-bedroom rowhouse at 3141 S. Calumet in the Gap neighborhood of Douglas in July 2012. See our prior chatter here. Most of you thought the rowhouse, which is a rare Adler & Sullivan designed house, was beautiful but you didn’t know anything about the Gap neighborhood. Since July, it […]

This 2-bedroom loft in the Bank Note Lofts at 120 E. Cullerton in the South Loop recently came on the market. In July 2012, it was owned by the bank and sold at $177,500. You can see the pictures of the bank owned listing here. The corner loft has since been rehabbed with new hardwood […]

We last chattered about this top floor 3-bedroom at 814 W. Roscoe in Lakeview in December 2010. See our prior chatter here. Many of you liked this unit which was renovated/remodeled in 2006. Sonies thought it was very “New York-ish”. It didn’t sell and was withdrawn from the market in 2011. But it has now come […]

There are few buildings with the uniqueness and the grandeur of The Manor House at 1021 and 1031 W. Bryn Mawr in Edgewater. Built in 1908, in the Tudor Revival style, it has 16 units. It’s located in the Bryn Mawr Historic District and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Some of the units, like this 3-bedroom […]

Many of you have sent me tips over the years about various rowhouses north of Armitage on Bissell (usually those on the El side of the street that seemed like “deals”.) There’s something about this row of vintage rowhouses that we love. This 3-bedroom end unit rowhouse at 2137 N. Bissell in Lincoln Park came on the market […]

This 3-bedroom vintage rowhouse at 1832 W. Cornelia in Roscoe Village recently came on the market. It went under contract in just 11 days. We have chattered about rowhouses on this block before (including 1828 W. Cornelia, just two doors down, which has been on the market since February 2012.) See our chatter on that rowhouse […]

We last chattered about this 2-bedroom duplex at 1853 N. Lincoln in Lincoln Park in July 2012. See our prior chatter here. It is in a prime location near Lincoln Park but doesn’t have parking or in-unit washer/dryer. It last sold just two years ago and most of you thought it wouldn’t sell for more […]

We last chattered about this East Lakeview vintage 2/2 at 521 W. Surf in December 2011. See our prior chatter here. Back then, it was listed just under $300,000, but a lis pendens foreclosure had been filed. The listing was withdrawn without a sale and the bank took possession in April 2012. The property recently came […]

We last chattered about this 2-bedroom loft in the Mandel Brothers Lofts at 811 W. Aldine in Lakeview in July 2012. See our prior chatter here. At the time, the loft was bank owned and yet it was listed just 3% under the 2004 price. Most of you thought the price was too high (no […]

Some of you may remember the Tru-Lofts at 2525 N. Sheffield in Lincoln Park from the days of the housing boom as it was an apartment to condo conversion that took place in the spring of 2007. The original listings for the units in 2007 said you could buy the unit “as is” or you […]