Crib Chatter

This 4-bedroom Cape Cod at 9524 S. Claremont in Beverly has been on the market since May 2012. It originally sold last November as an estate sale. Back then, it was just a 2 bedroom, 1 bath at 1282 square feet. Now, after a rehab that included new windows, new roof, mechanicals, plumbing and electrical, the […]

This 4-bedroom Prairie style single family home at 1310 W. Glenlake in the Edgewater Glen neighborhood of Edgewater just came on the market. Built in 1916 on a 31×124.6 lot, it has a large front porch with a porch swing. It also has the features buyers look for including 3 bedrooms on one level, central air and […]

  This 3-bedroom brick ranch at 546 W. 33rd in Bridgeport came on the market in May 2012. It was built in 1972 on a standard 25×125 lot. The listing says it was “renovated” 5 years ago. The kitchen has maple cabinets, stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops. It has a full basement with an oak […]

This 7-bedroom mansion at 10200 S. Longwood in Beverly came on the market in April 2012. It is known as the “Horton Mansion.” According to Curbed Chicago it was built for Horace Horton, the founder of Chicago Bridge & Iron, in 1890. It sits on a huge lot measuring about a half an acre on […]

We last chattered about this 2-bedroom brick ranch at 5646 N. Nottingham in Old Norwood Park in March 2012. See our prior chatter here. Back in March, it was priced at $220,ooo and most, if not all of you, thought that was a decent price for a house in a neighborhood considered safe and with […]

We last chattered about this 5-bedroom modern construction single family home at 336 W. Wisconsin in Lincoln Park in March 2012. See our prior chatter here. It’s one of the “movie houses” which got a lot of publicity because The Fugitive, with Harrison Ford, was filmed in it. Yet 13 months later, it’s still on the […]

We’ve chattered about this 6-bedroom single family home at 1418 W. Fulton in the Fulton Market neighborhood of the Near West Side several times over the years, with the last time being in December 2009. See our December 2009 chatter here. Back then, some of you thought the neighborhood was too under developed to take […]

We last chattered about this 5-bedroom new(er) construction single family home at 3251 N. Lakewood in the Southport neighborhood of Lakeview in November 2011. See our prior chatter here. The house has an interesting prior sales history. The house was new construction built in 2009 on a standard 25×125 Chicago lot. It was on the […]

We’ve chattered about “The Pratt Mansion”, as I’m calling it, at 2100 W. Pratt Boulevard in West Ridge several times over the last couple of years. See our January 2012 chatter here. It was in distress as the bank had filed a lis pendens foreclosure all the way back in 2010. The house had been […]

We’ve chattered about this new(er) construction 7-bedroom single family home at 1111 W. Wrightwood in Lincoln Park several times over the past few years including last July when it was listed as a short sale. See our July 2011 chatter here. After a lis pendens was filed all the way back in April 2009 (that […]