Crib Chatter

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom Sheperd’s Cottage at 2235 W. Homer in Bucktown in February 2011. See our February chatter here. We’ve chattered about this house several times, especially when there was another Sheperd’s Cottage on the market on the same block, at 2233 W. Homer, in 2011. The other house was a 3-bedroom (not […]

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom single family home at 304 W. Willow in the heart of Old Town in May 2011. See our prior chatter here. Many of you thought the taxes were too high (looks like they have been reassessed since then as they’re now $7,000 lower) and that the price was too […]

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom single family home at 3625 N. Springfield in the historic Villa neighborhood of Irving Park in September 2011. See our prior chatter here. Back then, we chattered about whether a house in the Villa neighborhood could command over $1 million. Since then, the house has reduced $149,000 to $1,050,000. […]

This 3-bedroom single family home at 1748 W. Cortland in Bucktown has been on the market since July 2010. In that time it has been reduced just $26,000. The listing says it was custom built by renowned archiect Joe Valerio. The house, on a 24×125 lot, has a 2-story living room with a lofted bedroom. […]

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom Keck & Keck mid-century modern single family home at 2939 W. Catalpa in Budlong Woods (which is just north of Lincoln Square) in September 2009. See our prior chatter here. Since that time, the house has been on and off the market. It has been reduced about $300,000 in […]

This 5-bedroom single family home at 2140 W. Montrose in Lincoln Square has been on the market since November 2011. In that time, it has been reduced once by $30,000 to $499,000. Built in 1929, it is on an oversized 37×125 lot. And no- there is NO El in the backyard (like we’ve seen with […]

We last chattered about this 6-bedroom single family home at 1339 W. Webster in Lincoln Park all the way back in July 2009. See our prior chatter here. Back in 2009, it was listed at $4.2 million. It has since been reduced to $2.995 million. Built in 1896 and renovated sometime after 1996 by architects Burns & Beyerl, the […]

This 3-bedroom single family home at 2917 N. Rockwell in Avondale just came on the market. The listing said it was renovated in 2006. Built on a standard Chicago lot of 25×125, it has central air and a 2-car garage. All three bedrooms are upstairs. There is also a main level family room and a […]

We’ve chattered about this 3-bedroom house at 3352 N. Marshfield in Lakeview several times since it came on the market in March 2011. See our July 1, 2011 chatter here. In July, the house had reduced $30,000 to $469,900 but most of you thought it was still overpriced. Most of the guesses were around $375,000 […]

This 4-bedroom single family home at 579 W. Hawthorne in Lakeview is located on the landmarked “Hawthorne Place District” which consists of a block of single family mansions on large lots. Here’s more from the Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce: Hawthorne Place is one of the few streets along the city’s north shore that was developed for-and […]