Crib Chatter

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 […]

This 3-bedroom top floor unit at 820 W. Webster in Lincoln Park just came on the market about a week ago. It is in a 6-unit building that was built in 1892 and still retains many of its vintage features including hardwood floors, an older fireplace and crown molding. But it also has the modern conveniences that […]

I’ve been watching this 2-bedroom duplex down at 1034 W. Armitage in Lincoln Park for months. I was originally going to post on it last summer when it was bank owned but the realtor never put any interior pictures up with the listing. And try as hard as I could to find a past listing, […]

This 2 bedroom penthouse at 3750 N. Lake Shore Drive in Lakeview just came on the market. I am always insanely curious about the penthouses in these big pre-war buildings along Lake Shore Drive because they were built for the truly rich. (And they rarely come on the market.) So they must be unique- right? […]

This 4-bedroom contemporary single family home at 1943 N. Maud in Lincoln Park recently came on the market. The listing says it was designed by Krueck & Sexton. It was built in 1989 on a 23×100 lot. It has a 2-story entryway and an open floor plan. The listing says there is a new gourmet kitchen […]

This 1-bedroom at 1 E. Scott in the Gold Coast just returned to the market after being listed in 2010. It is a southwest corner unit with floor-to-ceiling windows. It has hardwood floors in the main living area. The listing says it has an upgraded kitchen and bath. The kitchen has maple cabinets and a […]

This 4-bedroom vintage Victorian single family home at 5227 N. Christiana in North Park has been on the market for a year. In that time it has been reduced $85,000 to $359,000. Built in 1911 on a 124.3×37.5 oversized Chicago lot, the house has 1600 square feet. There’s no garage, but there are two parking […]

We chattered about this vintage 2-bedroom at 5203 N. Magnolia in the Lakewood Balmoral historic district of Andersonville several times over the past year. See our September 2011 chatter here. At that time, it had just been reduced to $224,000. Many of you thought it would sell around that price and were surprised it wasn’t […]

How long does it take to close on a short sale? This 3-bedroom duplex down at 323 W. Schiller in Old Town went under contract last August and was just put back on the market again. That’s 6 months under contract without a closing. The unit has been listed since June 2010 when a lis […]

This 2-bedroom vintage unit at 2340 N. Lincoln Park West in Lincoln Park just came on the market. It is located across the street from Lincoln Park and just minutes from the Conservatory. Built in 1913, the building has 7 units. It does have prime garage parking behind the building. But the unit doesn’t have […]