Crib Chatter

This 1-bedroom brick and timber loft in the Block Y development at 1330 W. Monroe in the West Loop has been on the market since May 2010. At 852 square feet, it has a balcony with downtown views as well as views of the courtyard with its trees, gardens and a small pond. The unit […]

This 2-bedroom loft in One River Place, at 758 N. Larrabee, in River North has been on the market since October 2010. In that time period, it has been reduced $80,100. Now a short sale, and listed $77,600 under the 2006 purchase price, the listing says “this won’t last long!” It is a concrete loft with […]

It’s been over 3 years since we’ve chattered about the Market Square Lofts at 161 W. Harrison in Printers Row. One of the few buildings in Printers Row with central air, in-unit washer/dryers and deeded onsite parking, the units have high ceilings and big windows but lack exposed brick, timber, exposed beams or other authentic […]

This 1-bedroom loft in the China Club Lofts at 616 W. Fulton in the West Loop is one of the large authentic one bedroom lofts that were built in the 1990s. At 1000 square feet, it has both exposed brick, 14 foot high timber ceilings and diagonal wood floors. The kitchen has stainless steel appliances […]

This 2-bedroom top floor loft at 4745 N. Ravenswood in Lincoln Square has been on and off the market since March 2010. It is now a short sale and is listed $5500 under the 2002 purchase price. At 1900 square feet, it has all the open space of authentic lofts. It also has exposed brick […]

This 2-bedroom brick loft in the Manchester Lofts at 2035 W. Charleston in Bucktown has been on the market since January of 2010. It has been reduced $51,000 in that time, including a recent $10k reduction. The loft is now listed for $76,000 under the 2005 purchase price. This loft has many authentic features including […]

This 2-bedroom loft at Metropolitan Place, at 130 S. Canal, in the Loop has been on and off the market since March 2010. We originally chattered about it in April, when it was a short sale and listed below the 1999 purchase price. See our April 2010 chatter here. It quickly went under contract (so […]

This 1-bedroom loft at 843 W. Adams, the Olympia Lofts, in the West Loop has been on and off the market since October 2009. Since that time it has been reduced $130,000. It is now listed $104,500 under the 2004 purchase price. The loft has 14 foot ceilings, exposed brick and concrete ceilings. It has many attributes buyers […]

This 3-bedroom loft-like duplex up at 1043 W. School in Lakeview was listed in October 2010. Located in the School Street Lofts, the living area has vaulted ceilings. There is also a large second floor 24×14 master suite while the other two bedrooms are on the main floor. The unit has its own private roofdeck. The […]

It’s been over a year since we last chattered about a loft in 1000 W. Washington in the West Loop. This is a popular loft building because of its location across the street from the Wishbone restaurant and Harpo Studios not to mention the string of restaurants on Randolph Street. It also is well known for […]