Crib Chatter

This 4-bedroom single family home at 4142 N. Maplewood in North Center has been on the market since March 2009. Last purchased in 1996, the listing says it “requires bank approval.” I couldn’t find an original listing price but at one point it was listed at just $540,000 (per this virtual tour with music.) But in […]

We last chattered about this 4-bedroom new construction home at 2628 W. Homer in Logan Square in September 2011. See our prior chatter here. Listed at $699,000, many of you wondered who would pay that much west of Western even though you liked the contemporary style of the home. The house recently sold for $680,000. […]

Thanks to the tipster who pointed out to me that the 5-bedroom single family home at 3251 N. Lakewood in Lakeview that we chattered about several times, which sold in September, came BACK on the market just weeks later. You can see our last chatter in July 2011 here. The house was new construction built in 2009 on […]

We last chattered about this 5-bedroom single family home at 4117 N. Western in North Center in April 2011. See our prior chatter here. Back then, the house was bank owned and was going to auction with an opening bid of $149,000. It was a cash only transaction. From the pictures in the prior listing, […]

We last chattered about this 3-bedroom Tudor at 5761 N. Virginia in the Peterson Woods neighborhood of West Ridge in August 2011. See our prior chatter here. Many of you liked this house but given that it was priced over $500,000 and was only a 3/1.5, most of you didn’t think they would get that […]

The Claude Seymour House, a 6-bedroom historic mansion at 817 W. Hutchinson in the Buena Park neighborhood of Uptown returned to the market recently after briefly being listed last March. Originally listed for just 2 weeks in March 2011 at $5.195 million, it came back on the market reduced to $4.995 million. The Elite Street […]

This 5-bedroom single family home at 2027 W. Leland in Lincoln Square has been on the market since April 2011. In that time, it has beenreduced $54,001 to $674,999. The house is on an oversized 37.5×122 lot. It has a front porch and a back porch as well as a rare 3-car garage. The kitchen has […]

We last chattered about this 6-bedroom bank owned greystone at 1111 N. Hoyne in the Ukranian Village neighborhood of West Town in May 2011. See our prior chatter here. If you recall, the greystone was originally built in 1905, but none of its interior vintage features remain. The house now spans 3 lots measuring 75×105 and […]

We last chattered about this 5-bedroom contemporary at 838 W. Webster in Lincoln Park in April 2011. See our prior chatter here. If you remember, the house is an AIA design interior architecture award winner. Built in 2004 on an oversized 48×115 lot, the living room has 20 foot high ceilings and a wall of windows […]

This 5-bedroom American 4-Square at 1530 W. Touhy in Rogers Park just came on the market. It is bank owned. Built in 1916 on an oversized 50×164 lot, 3 bedrooms are on the second floor and 2 are on the third. It also has an unfinished basement and a 2 car garage. Unfortunately, the listing […]