Crib Chatter

We last chattered about this 3-bedroom vintage bungalow at 4054 N. Lawler in Portage Park in August 2011. See our prior chatter here. No surprise, but most of you thought the house was overpriced for a property that still needed some work (especially going up against rehabbed foreclosures with everything “new.”) Many thought it should […]

This 4-bedroom Victorian at 1805 W. Cornelia in Roscoe Village in North Center just came on the market. It is built on a double Chicago lot of 50×125. The house has a koi pond, a pergola with fire pit and a dog run. However, there doesn’t appear to be a garage or any off street parking. Two […]

  This 3-bedroom brick bungalow at 844 N. Damen in West Town just came on the market listed at $178,900. It is a Freddie Mac Homesteps property. The listing says “property needs repairs.” Built in 1900, it is on a smaller than standard 25×104 lot. It doesn’t have a garage but the listing says there […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 850 W. Willow in Lincoln Park has a secret you rarely see in the dense neighborhoods near the lake. It has a heated in-the-ground pool in the backyard. It’s able to have that because the house is built on a double lot measuring 50×99.56. As you can see from […]

This 5-bedroom vintage Victorian at 2666 N. Orchard in Lincoln Park recently came on the market. It is being marketed as a teardown as the listing says: “Developers: Build a dream home or condos.” It’s being sold “as-is”. But the house, built in 1891, has some unique features including knotty pine wood paneling and stained […]

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom single family home at 4315 N. Hazel in the Buena Park neighborhood of Uptown in September 2011. See our prior chatter here. The house had sold in 2006 for $850,000. Many of you questioned why anyone would pay that price in Uptown (even if it was the boom.) You […]

We last chattered about this 3-bedroom Tudor at 5761 N. Virginia in the Peterson Woods neighborhood of West Ridge in October 2011. See our October 2011 chatter here. Many of you liked this house but thought it was priced too high for only being a 3/1.5 (especially when it was originally listed over $500,000). Some […]

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom single family home at 1253 W. Wellington in Lakeview a year ago. See our April 2011 chatter here. Back then, many of you thought it was overpriced given its layout and lack of much of a backyard. Since then, it has been reduced another $145,000 to just $850,000. If […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 4443 N. Mozart in Ravenswood Manor has been on the market for 11 months. We last chattered about it in October 2011, when former Governor Blagojevich’s house came on the market just two blocks away. See our chatter here. Some of you thought at $1.235 million that that was too […]

I didn’t even get a chance to go to Kenwood to get a picture of this 4-bedroom one story home at 4933 S. Ellis before it went under contract. (If I even could- as I don’t know how close this is to the President’s house.) It went under contract in just 3 days. Built in […]