Crib Chatter

This 2-bedroom loft at 2250 W. Ohio in West Town has been on the market for a year. It is listed for $25,000 under the 2004 purchase price. It has all the features of an authentic loft including exposed brick and timber ceilings. The loft is a corner unit with a wall of west facing […]

This 2-bedroom duplex loft in Dearborn Tower at 1530 S. State in the South Loop has been on the market since January 2011. The building first sold units in 2001 so most of the finishes are going on 10 years now. The listing for this 10th floor duplex up says it has been renovated and […]

This 7000 square foot loft mansion at 2118 W. Van Buren in the West Loop recently came on the market. The listing says the building was formerly a print shop and statue factory. It has been converted into a single family home with many of the industrial features preserved. It has 14 foot timber ceilings, exposed […]

This 3-bedroom triplex loft in the Tower Lofts at 1601 W. School in Lakeview just came on the market. This building was a former Wieboldt’s department store so the loft has authentic features including exposed brick, big windows and tall ceilings. This triplex top floor unit, has a spiral staircase leading to the second and […]

This 2-bedroom loft in the Haberdasher Square Lofts at 728 W. Jackson in the West Loop has been on the market since October 2010. The Haberdasher Square Lofts is one of those loft buildings that has some concrete lofts and some timber lofts depending on the location in the building. This unit is on the concrete side. Those […]

This 2-bedroom loft at 375 W. Erie in River North has been on and off the market since August 2008. It is a 1500 square foot end unit with authentic loft features such as exposed brick and a timber ceiling. The listing doesn’t say if it is north or south facing (north faces the street […]

We last chattered about this big 2-bedroom loft at 3024 N. Lincoln in Lakeview in September 2010. See our prior chatter here. It recently sold for just $5,000 over the 1999 purchase price. That was $125,000 under the 2005 purchase price. The loft had a lot of authentic loft features including few walls, 17 to […]

This 1-bedroom loft at 1601 S. Michigan in the South Loop was recently reduced to $100,000. It is a short sale. We’ve seen a bunch of one-bedrooms in the South Loop reduce to $100,000 in just the past few weeks in other buildings. The list price is now just $7,000 above the 1999 purchase price […]

We last chattered about this 2-bedroom loft in The Sexton, the large timber and concrete loft building at 360 W. Illinois across from the East Bank Club in River North, in December 2010. See our December 2010 chatter here. I asked if the 2001 price wasn’t now the current market for this property. Some of […]

We’ve chattered about this 2-bedroom authentic loft at 154 W. Hubbard in River North several times before. See our December 2010 chatter here. Since it was first listed for sale in November 2008, it has been reduced $100,000. It is now listed $34,000 under the 2007 purchase price. This building was a Studio Dwell loft conversion […]