Crib Chatter

This 3-bedroom single family home at 1748 W. Cortland in Bucktown has been on the market since July 2010. In that time it has been reduced just $26,000. The listing says it was custom built by renowned archiect Joe Valerio. The house, on a 24×125 lot, has a 2-story living room with a lofted bedroom. […]

In the last few months of 2011, we’ve been chattering about more new construction projects than we did the prior years. These include new construction million dollar homes and 3 and 6 flat condo developments. Sure, it’s not like it was during the boom time but with prices still falling for the current crop of […]

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom Keck & Keck mid-century modern single family home at 2939 W. Catalpa in Budlong Woods (which is just north of Lincoln Square) in September 2009. See our prior chatter here. Since that time, the house has been on and off the market. It has been reduced about $300,000 in […]

This 5-bedroom single family home at 2140 W. Montrose in Lincoln Square has been on the market since November 2011. In that time, it has been reduced once by $30,000 to $499,000. Built in 1929, it is on an oversized 37×125 lot. And no- there is NO El in the backyard (like we’ve seen with […]

This 2-bedroom vintage cottage at 1345 W. Webster in Lincoln Park has been on the market since October 2008. In that time it has been reduced more than 50% going from a list price of $1.275 million to now just $600,000. It is the adjacent parcel to 1339 W. Webster and is basically being sold […]

We last chattered about this 6-bedroom single family home at 1339 W. Webster in Lincoln Park all the way back in July 2009. See our prior chatter here. Back in 2009, it was listed at $4.2 million. It has since been reduced to $2.995 million. Built in 1896 and renovated sometime after 1996 by architects Burns & Beyerl, the […]

Since we had so much fun chattering about this 3-bedroom duplex down at 848 W. Roscoe in Lakeview last year on December 23, I thought we’d have at it again on the same day a year later. See our December 2010 chatter here. In the last year, it has been reduced another $67,000. If you […]

As someone recently pointed out on the 2011 N. Kenmore thread, this 2-bedroom at 1024 W. Armitage in Lincoln Park (which is in the same association as the Kenmore coach house) came back on the market. The bank has finally gotten  its act together on this property, since it has owned it since July 2011. It […]

  This 2-bedroom at 1410 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast has been on the market since June 2011. In that time it has been reduced $151,000 to $499,000. This building was constructed in 1981 yet it has the amenities that buyers look for today including central air, washer/dryer in the unit and garage parking. […]

This 2-bedroom corner loft in the Westgate Lofts at 331 S. Peoria in the West Loop has been on the market since August 2011. It is a brick and timber loft with high ceilings but it also has the privacy of 2 fully enclosed bedrooms. The listing says both bathrooms have been redone. The second […]