Crib Chatter

We’ve chattered about this 2-bedroom single family home with loft features at 1275 N. Hermitage in Wicker Park several times. See our May 2012 chatter here. It was listed last fall and then withdrawn. The house then came back on the market in the spring at a slightly higher price. But since that time, it […]

This 3-bedroom single family home at 1414 W. Ohio in West Town (is this Noble Square?) came on the market in August 2012. It was bank owned in 2007 and last sold in 2008. If you have a Redfin account, you can see a 2008 picture of the front of the house. The listing says […]

his 2-bedroom duplex down at 3531 N. Sheffield in Lakeview is just a half a block away from Wrigley Field. It has 12 foot ceilings. One bedroom is on the main floor and the second bedroom is on the lower level. There is also a family room on the lower level. The kitchen has white […]

This 3-bedroom penthouse at 3118 N. Lincoln in Lakeview has been on the market since June 2012. It last sold only 14 months ago, in June 2011. But the new listing includes a entirely new kitchen complete with floor to ceiling cabinets, slate floors, and a huge kitchen island with granite counter tops and a […]

Tired of the boring white box new construction? Then this 2-bedroom at 549 W. Belden in Lincoln Park is for you. It is a top floor unit in a 20-unit vintage building built in 1892. The corner unit has tall ceilings in the living/dining area with a spiral staircase leading to a second level loft […]

We’ve chattered about this 5-bedroom single family home on a double lot at 3625 N. Springfield in the historic Villa neighborhood of Irving Park several times. See our June 2012 chatter here. Last June, after it had reduced to $899,900, some of you thought it should list anywhere from $750,000 to the lower $800,000s in order […]

This 3-bedroom single family home at 3929 N. Tripp in Old Irving Park has been on the market for 2 years. It is a short sale. This was new construction. The listing says it was built in 2005. There are no interior pictures of the house. The listing says there is a full basement and […]

This top floor 3-bedroom unit at 3934 N. Janssen in the Southport neighborhood of Lakeview just came on the market. The building was built in 2002. The building next to it that you can see in the picture above looks like townhouses. It has 2500 square feet on one level which includes a family room. The […]

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom single family home at 6924 N. Tonty in the Wildwood neighborhood of Forest Glen in May 2012. See our prior chatter here. We had a lively discussion on whether this part of the city is really “the city”. As far as the house goes, several of you had been in […]

This 1-bedroom at 3110 N. Sheridan in East Lakeview has been on the market since November 2011. Bank owned in 2009, it has been totally rehabbed with some interesting finishes we normally don’t see in one bedroom condos. It has heated slate floors. The kitchen has a Bosch dishwasher, a Monogram oven and a Traulsen refrigerator. Granite counter […]