Smith Park Fans: Get a 3-Bedroom SFH Facing The Park For Just $500K: 2544 W. Huron
This 3-bedroom single family home at 2544 W. Huron directly across the street from Smith Park in West Town recently came on the market. (If you’re looking at the map of it on Redfin- that isn’t correct. It literally IS right across from the park.)
Built in 1997 on a 22×125 lot, it has the features homebuyers are looking for including a 2-car garage and central air.
All three bedrooms are on the second floor and the master suite has cathedral ceilings with skylights.
The kitchen has white cabinets, stainless steel appliances, granite counter tops and a marble subway tile backsplash.
There’s a back deck and a bricked patio.
The house is listed $35,000 under the 2004 price.
Is this a deal?
Ivona Kutermankiewicz at Koenig & Strey Real Living has the listing. See the pictures here.
Or you can also see it in person at the Open House, Sunday, June 10 from 1-3 pm.
2544 W. Huron: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, no square footage listed, 2 car garage
- Sold in November 2004 for $535,000
- Originally listed in May 2012 for $500,000
- Currently still listed at $500,000
- Taxes of $6033
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 17×13 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 13×10 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 11×17 (second floor)
- Recreation room: 16×35 (lower level)
I had never heard of Smith Park before it was mentioned in the last West Town home featured here. Don’t know anything about the area other than it is good proximity to downtown. The pictures look good. According to Redfin apparently they tried to sell a few years ago without success.
I know technically rowhouses are SFRs but it’s worth noting that this property shares it’s West wall with its twin directly to the East.
Correction: that this property shares it’s EAST wall with its twin directly to the East.
Good looking interior, but I’m not sure the price fits the location. I don’t know this area at all, but half a million seems a lot to pay.
Isn’t this the Patch? Smith Park is the actual park across the street. I think $500K is steep for the area, but may be representative of the lack of similar inventory. I still think it sells for $40K less.
Price fit’s the location if you are OK with the shared party wall and entrance stairs. 2556 is under contract with $1.3mil list.
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2556-W-Huron-St-60612/home/13260614
Does anyone know what the deal is with the building 2 doors East of this one? It looks like an enormous SFH.
2550 Huron, two doors west, is new construction by RD Precision. It recently had a price cut to $859,900. Sergio & Banks, one of our clients, has the listing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MOBfLRZ-H0
Hats off to Koenig & Strey and this Realtor. Can’t get much better of a listing and virtual tour – very well done. All you other Realtors out there, take note and follow suit please. Earn a little of that commission for a change. This should be standard practice.
Regarding the property, I don’t know anything about this location either, so I can’t comment on price. Looks like a nice place though – layout seems is simple and functional for a small family.
“Sergio & Banks, one of our clients, has the listing”
yet Joey Z you still have not disproved my facts from this thread
http://cribchatter.com/?p=14453#comment-236742
sadly your still guttersnipping like the rest of us.
There’s nothing to disprove, Groove.
You didn’t state any facts. You made a wild allegation, apparently (as best I can guess) about someone who isn’t even my client.
Wtf Joe, is nobody visiting your site so you have to come over here and advertise your “client’s” properties?
Lame dude, LAME!
How do you pronounce this realtor’s name? Eye-vonna-kooter-man-quick? LOL!
Wild allegations make the world go round!
“You didn’t state any facts. You made a wild allegation, apparently (as best I can guess) about someone who isn’t even my client.”
it is your client and we have argued about it before for at least two years back up till today. i provided facts last year and the year before that.
yet still you havent said or provided anything to disprove my facts.
It is a nice enough looking home, but the shared wall kills it for me.
Also, what are people’s opinion on the cathedral ceilings in the bedroom? I assume because of the cathedral ceiling this house has no attic and the basement is finished as well. I’d much rather have an attic for storage purposes than to have high ceilings. What do others think?
Groove77,
I know who my clients are. You clearly can’t think clearly about that.
Who do you think my client is? Spare everyone the oblique garbage and make a simple statement of fact.
Simple statement of fact? You suck!
We already have this thread
cribchatter.com/?p=14453#comment-236742
and this one
http://cribchatter.com/?p=14587
no need for another one…
@Sonies
When you click on a link on this or another website that then takes you to one of Joe’s websites, Joe benefits.
Stock broker, cab driver, sales and marketing are all ways to make a living. I don’t begat Joe trying to make a living.
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Sonies (June 6, 2012, 1:51 pm)
Wtf Joe, is nobody visiting your site so you have to come over here and advertise your “client’s” properties?
Lame dude, LAME!
I’m not a builder. I have a question regarding the side of a building.
Say I starting from scratch. What’s my cost per sq. ft (not sure of unit of measure to be used) for
vinyl vs. wood vs. brick? I’m just trying to figure out the cost difference.
It looks like this house is vinyl?
And what’s up with the red washer and dryer? I’m wondering how many of us have multi coloured washer dryers? Does it liven up the laundry room?
“I don’t begat Joe”
I would hope not. I don’t particularly mind joe posting either, except that it does often create a ruckus (not entirely of joe’s doing but not entirely not of his doing either).
I had thought he’d pledged at one point to only post when he or a client (maybe incl past clients or hypothetical ones) was mentioned directly, which I didn’t think had happened here. Maybe it’s broadened to when any house within the vicinity of any of his clients’ houses is mentioned.
“2550 Huron, two doors west, is new construction by RD Precision. It recently had a price cut to $859,900. Sergio & Banks, one of our clients, has the listing.”
I purposely DIDN’T post on this house simply because I didn’t want Joe going on and on about his clients and yet he STILL came on here even though this property isn’t one of his clients (and is listed for several hundred thousand less just a few doors away.)
Wow. It must not be getting much interest.
“Good looking interior, but I’m not sure the price fits the location. I don’t know this area at all, but half a million seems a lot to pay.”
Surprisingly, there are McMansion houses all around including one massive one down the block that isn’t directly across from the park. I think there was one listed at like $1.5 million on the corner a couple of months ago- if I’m not mistaken. But I don’t think it sold.
There are also four or five ranch houses just to the east of this house that will ultimately sell (in estate sales) and be torn down for new construction. Within 10 years, my guess is that this whole block right across from the park (which is very pleasant, actually) will have mainly newer expensive homes on it.
I think if I was forced to choose between a mcmansion in obscure Smith Park or living in “tony” suburban Riverwoods with the insects, etc., I’d choose Smith Park.
“Eye-vonna-kooter-man-quick?”
I think it’s Eye-von-a Kooter-man-kev-ich
DZ,
Your recollection is correct. My apologies. Won’t do it again.
Actually I kind of miss Zekass’s good old piss and vinegar trolling of the Cribchatter boards.
Smith Park obscure? What planet is everyone from around here? Certainly it’s not Lincoln Park but it’s a huge, gorgeous park right in Ukranian Village. It even has a pool, and it’s own metra stop. Instead of hating on Joe and calling each other names, why not take a drive to Smith Park and see what you are all missing. Or, are you all too busy thinking up your next cut up to your fellow posters.
That’s just stupid because we all know what you mean. If this were posted by anyone else, no one would have any issue with it. But we all know exactly what you mean. Cut it out, it’s so annoying.
“helmethofer (June 6, 2012, 11:12 pm)
I think if I was forced to choose between a mcmansion in obscure Smith Park or living in “tony” suburban Riverwoods with the insects, etc., I’d choose Smith Park.”
“Or, are you all too busy thinking up your next cut up to your fellow posters.”
i spend late nights coming up with the gold i type, and you better dang appreciate it.
you would think that you would be the first one to enjoy great humor, clearly you must because you find smith park a decent area to live, and thats hilarious.
Groove 77, I enjoy great humor. Let me know if you know of anything humorous on this board because so far, it’s just name calling. Maybe “gold” to you is name calling which would make me feel really sorry for you. And while you are dreaming up your next “golden tidbit” please re read my post. I didn’t say anything about whether it was good to live in Smith Park, or not, I just said it wasn’t obscure. I know where Garfield Park is too, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s a nice place to live.
driving to smith park vs thinking up jokes…hmm.
i will admit when it’s a property that I have no opinion on, i am more likely to think of a joke. but if I find myself near smith park (ie my car gets towed) i might look for the place if it is memorable. this one isnt.
I like this place on smith park.
https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&q=smith+park+chicago&fb=1&gl=us&hq=smith+park&hnear=0x880e2c3cd0f4cbed:0xafe0a6ad09c0c000,Chicago,+IL&cid=0,0,3059959228881294167&ei=bO_QT8XJDsLs2gXgsey9DA&oi=local_result&ved=0CFgQ_BIwAQ
the difference in housing density north of grand vs. south of lake is amazing. 4-6 blocks through an industrial is really all the difference in the worth between the haves and have not. All that vacant, empty land, so close to a highly desirable area with expensive homes, all off limits.
The problem with such proximity is criminals are lazy and manys only form of transportation is their feet or a bike. If you’re one of the haves north of Grand I’d suggest parking your car in a garage or elsr that cars gonna get hit soon enough. And I don’t mean by another car.
I’ve always had this dream of reclaiming unused urban land for city use. There’s nowhere on the north or NW side that looks like 6 blocks directly south of smith park. This vacant land could represent millions and millions of dollars if it were 8 blocks to the north
http://goo.gl/maps/NZGK
http://goo.gl/maps/Rkix
On the northside they call this much vacant land a park and name an entire neighborhood after it – in Lawndale it’s called ‘blight’.
HD,
I did that trip out to Oak Park last week on the Green Line via Lake Street.
It was pretty bad. It was one of the days when it was 100 degrees.
I thought Oak Park was boring, but the train ride was memorable.
A guy selling loosies on the train, lots of open fire hydrants, plenty of urban decay, some nice new townhome developments near the United Center which appeared to be for low income families with tons and tons and TONS of children, some poor guy on the train completely covered in boils.
I almost got out at Austin but decided to stay on the train till Ridgeland and then walked to Oak Park.
Milkster, that urban decay is some crazy stuff because even though the area is an awful place to live, the residents consider it *their* awful place to live, so they stay. My cousin the CPD sargeant told me that they want to live there, they could live anywhere, rents are similar on the northside, but they choose to stay. But it’s such an inefficient use of resources and energy to have the commuter trains packed everyday from the far flung suburbs yet there are entire zip codes worth of vacant land just a short public transit ride outside of downtown. quite frankly it makes me angry and it’s basically the fault of segregation – voluntary or otherwise. There are plenty of lower income areas in the suburbs and none of them look like a frick’in bomb hit it.
Incidentally, an acquaintance told me the other day that during the bubble, she and her sister were persuaded to buy a multi-unit building in Garfield Park as an investment property for the Section 8 rents. They would receive the Section 8 voucher portion from the Government, and they would have to collect the balance in cash from the tenants. My friend is a very cute petite blonde lady who lives on the Northside and works in the Loop. I don’t know what she was thinking. Of course she would get the runaround – “I don’t have it this month. I’ll pay you next time.” And there was one tenant she called “Lysol Lady” because when they came around to collect the rent she would spray Lysol all over the place to cover up the smell of her recreational smoking.
I did see some nice urban-pioneering types.
I was pretty surprised.
One family with 2 kids had just been to the beach downtown and got off at Kedzie.
I was kind of worried for them, but they were totally relaxed.
Things are only going to get better if we make a commitment to live in the city instead of the burbs.
I mean, I understand why people make that choice, but I love the city and I think certain areas have the potential to improve with more homeowners who will take a vested interest in their neighborhoods over renters and welfare cases.
“I almost got out at Austin”
that would have been worse.
“It was pretty bad. It was one of the days when it was 100 degrees.”
so you got the see the craziness of the green line, and the mythical invisible border/forcefield austin ave is.
Ha, ha, Groovy.
I remembered you said if I walked east and reached a street called Austin I should run.
So I figured I’d start at Austin and walk west.
Then I reassessed the situation.
“I did that trip out to Oak Park last week on the Green Line via Lake Street.
It was pretty bad. It was one of the days when it was 100 degrees.
I thought Oak Park was boring, but the train ride was memorable.”
A friend of mine rode that line every weekday for work. People would very openly and blatantly make arrangements with drug dealers on their cellphones at some of the stops (and this was DURING rush hour.) So I’m sure your trip was pretty interesting.
The friend moved to the north side of the city after 6 months.
So is the green line worse than in the late 1990’s? I used to take it to op for work and never had any issues.
If you’re commuting from the Loop to Oak Park and you think the Green Line is so awful, why not take the Metra that runs parallel with the GL instead? Or the Blue Line along the Ike?
Smith park is great, beautiful park, plenty of parking, great community of neighbors. 2 doors east (huge building) is the home of photographer / film maker Sandro, he has been featured many times in local Chicago and national publications. The bottom floor is his studio, the top is his home.