Some of you have already chattered about The Abbott Estate, the 6000 square foot Victorian at 4605 N. Hermitage in Ravenswood. On the market since August 2009, it is now listed for $151,000 under the 2006 purchase price. Built in 1891 for the founder of Abbott Labs, it is on an oversized 92×165 corner lot […]
This 2-unit 1920 vintage building at 4529 N. Malden in Uptown was recently renovated and its vintage beauty restored. They just don’t build them like this anymore. Both units are over 2000 square feet and have 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths on a 54×144 lot. They have central air, in-unit washer/dryers and 2-car parking each. […]
Many of you might remember this building at 840-842 W. Belle Plaine in the Buena Park neighborhood of Uptown from last year. See our February and April 2009 chatter and pictures here and here. 842 W. Belle Plaine was a new construction conversion vintage building that sold out, at the height of the financial crisis mind you, within […]
We last chattered about this 3-bedroom vintage rowhouse at 822 W. Windsor in Uptown in January 2010. See our prior chatter and pictures here. Since then, the property went under contract before falling out and coming back on the market at a reduced price of $399,000. It has since recently been reduced another $20,000. The […]
This 6-unit building at 4410 N. Hermitage in Uptown was built in 1930. It has some of the same elegant vintage features of the bigger buildings along the lake front which were built in the same era including arched doorways, built-in bookcases in the living room and built-in china cabinets in the dining room. Is […]
We last chattered about this 1-bedroom unit at 1234 W. Argyle in Uptown a year ago, in April 2009. See our prior chatter and pictures here. At that time, some of you thought the $199,900 listing price was pretty close to the market for the space and location. The unit just closed for $180,000. It had a […]
This junior 1-bedroom in the Imperial Towers at 4250 N. Marine Drive in Uptown has been on the market since June 2009. The Imperial Towers complex was built in 1963 and has 860 units. The property has recently become a “pre-foreclosure” listing, with the bank willing to take $109,000. The unit does not have central […]
This studio condo at 732 W. Bittersweet in the Buena Park neighborhood of Uptown has been on the market since last March and is now listed about 55% under the 2005 purchase price. The vintage building was converted into condos in 2005. It doesn’t have central air (room units only) but it does have hardwood […]