Uptown Vintage Rowhouse Now Reduced $50K: 822 W. Windsor
We last chattered about this 3-bedroom vintage rowhouse at 822 W. Windsor in Uptown in January 2010.
See our prior chatter and pictures here.
Since then, the property went under contract before falling out and coming back on the market at a reduced price of $399,000.
It has since recently been reduced another $20,000.
The rowhouse has some of its vintage features still intact including a fabulous oak staircase.
All 3-bedrooms are on the second level.
The listing says there is a newer kitchen, baths and windows.
The rowhouse does not have air conditioning or parking, which the listing says is available across the street for $75 a month.
Is this now a deal at this price?
Joe Siciliano at Coldwell Banker still has the listing. See more pictures here.
(For some reason Coldwell Banker’s website isn’t working correctly and isn’t giving me the listings so I’m linking to redfin instead. Sorry CDW!)
822 W. Windsor: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, no square footage listed
- Sold in November 1993 for $95,000
- Sold in December 1995 for $110,500
- Sold in February 1997 for $136,000
- Originally listed in September 2009
- Re-listed in January 2010 for $429,000
- Under Contract
- Back on the market in June 2010 for $399,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $379,000
- Taxes of $5497
- No central air
- No parking
- Bedroom #1: 17×16
- Bedroom #2: 12×11
- Bedroom #3: 11×10
If I had to have a rowhouse, I’d want to be at the end. Being surrounding on two sides makes me feel boxed in. A dwelling needs proper airflow.
I would want to be surrounded by brick walls on all 5 sides of this house… its in uptown
We’ve established that this is a terrible part of Uptown, but I mean, once you start going below 350 even I would take it!
Staircase still stunning…
I’m wondering what “small details” remain, and also why it fell out of contract. Speaking of which, is one of our resident data-crunchers looking at the rate of closings for contracts signed in April before the tax credit expiration? And the rate of new listings coming on?
Market seems awfully dead right now – gotta be some of the slowest Junes and Julys on record, right?
What good is cheap, across the street parking when you have a high chance of getting mugged between your car and your front door?
Is this hood really that bad? This place has me tempted. This is a terrific interior with excellent vintage features and a tasteful kitchen reno. I’m not that put off by “no a/c” but do wonder if it could be installed.
No, it’s not that bad. I’ve lived there for 6 years and never been mugged or even harassed. Sure there is riff raff hanging around but it will only bother you if you let it. Most people keep to them selves. Target opens this weekend which will hopefully bring much needed foot traffic to the area!
“Is this hood really that bad? This place has me tempted.”
Take a look at the streetview before you take the time to call.
“Target opens this weekend which will hopefully bring much needed foot traffic to the area!”
LOL if anything this area needs less foot traffic
People don’t like crazies, bums and addicts walking around their house they just dropped 350k on…
Do you think that it’s possible to put even a cement paver in the backyard? That could solve the lack of parking issue.
Any body know the general cost of getting central air put in?
Parking across the street? It’s attached to a whole damn parking deck!
We used to have a betting pool during the undergrad years about which red line stop was the most “ghetto” on a particular trip downtown from Evanston.
The Wilson stop almost always won.
JMM is a northwestern snob.
But I agree that Wilson was the most ghetto, with Howard running a close second.
“But I agree that Wilson was the most ghetto, with Howard running a close second.”
Argyle’s no prize pig.
Try Kendall College.
This is located on a lousy block. Too bad, since the home itself has a lot going for it. Uptown baffles me. It’s sandwiched between such beautiful neighborhoods, with Andersonville, Ravenswood, Lakeview, etc. surrounding it. Will it ever improve?
Ask the aldercreature!
“Will it ever improve?”
Sorry JMM. I’ve got a good friend from Kendall. That school is hard work. Especially when you have to awake at 4:00 a.m. for pastries everyday when everybody in the dorm is partying like hell.
I’m not kidding, my buddy busted his ass there. He learned a ton.
So what is your point?
maybe you two are buddies and you don’t even know it
HD is sour grapes because he got rejected from Northwestern twice. Once for undergrad and then again for law school. And because he is still renting.
Alls I was illustrating is that there is more than one college in Evanston and certainly the north shore. Personally, I got out of town for college, but that is another talkshow.
“Take a look at the streetview before you take the time to call.”
anon (tfo): I had done so before writing; doesn’t look bad to me. There’s no consensus on this site as to whether this is a “bad neighborhood.” Nor is it the Gold Coast.
That said — I am used to Houston, where there’s no zoning and you can find an auto repair shop across from a house that appeared in Dwell. I am not making up that particular example.
“anon (tfo): I had done so before writing; doesn’t look bad to me. There’s no consensus on this site as to whether this is a “bad neighborhood.””
Wasn’t talking about the ‘hood, which I find marginal and a little too close to the insanity that is Leland east of Broadway.
I was talking *very* specifically about the frickin enormous driveway right outside your one full open wall. Sure, there aren’t a ton of window, but that sux.
tfo, Yeah, I did see that. It kind of defeats the entire purpose of being on the end and having proper air flow, which someone mentioned — you just have a brick wall on that whole side of the house.
I’m with ALT on this one. Its a beautiful building and the neighborhood isn’t bad. But you can get a townhouse in what others consider a “nicer” neighborhood for 400-420k with parking, maybe CA too.
This is just another owner chasing the market down. Why didn’t they want to sell for 380k when the new buyer could’ve taken advantage of an 8k tax credit? Because they thought they were such an expert on the value of their home and the state of the market and they could get 429k for it?
I don’t know specifics but I’d be willing to bet their buyer’s 429k contract fell thru because…wait for it…their 429k greater fool buyer was…bad with money!
Now its almost a year later and the economy is worse off and they’re still trying to sell.
“We used to have a betting pool during the undergrad years about which red line stop was the most “ghetto” on a particular trip downtown from Evanston.
The Wilson stop almost always won.”
Good thing you restricted the set to those north of downtown.
I was up around Wilson stop for Ribfest–it wasn’t too bad. And a day in the park compared to: 47th, Garfield, 63rd, 69th, 79th, 87th & lets not forget 95th.
“I was up around Wilson stop for Ribfest”
Drank too much and got lost I guess?
“Uptown baffles me. It’s sandwiched between such beautiful neighborhoods, with Andersonville, Ravenswood, Lakeview, etc. surrounding it. Will it ever improve?”
That’s the problem, the riff-raf need somewhere to go – so Uptown it is.
I used to live in the building directly south. Used to be an okay ‘hood, until the city installed a ‘blue light camera’ on the corner of Wilson/Broadway. That sent the people who need to worry about such cameras scurrying into the neighborhood.
That parking deck next door is attached to a section 8 highrise, with another around the corner on Clarendon/Sunnyside. Stereotype, yes, but still…
No had a rooftop afterparty nearby actually. 😛
“Drank too much and got lost I guess?”
I was finishing a night off at the Hangge Uppe a few years back (my first mistake) and was, well, about 12 sheets to the wind. Decided to take the red line back to Fullerton. Got on the train at about 2AM, promptly passed out… woke up at about 63rd St. Got off the train, sat down to wait for another train in the next direction (which came mercifully quick) amidst a bunch of jeering, made it back to Fullerton in one piece. Not one of my finer moments.
“the Hangge Uppe”
lol
Pretty much. Always seems like a good idea, never actually is. That place is a dump and a magnet for shenanigans.
How about next door’s 2/2 penthouse for $334,500?
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/826-W-Windsor-Ave-60640/unit-3E/home/12701272
I seem to remember that the development east of this has section 8.
Wilson sticks out like a sore thumb based on what it is proximate to.
South side isn’t an effective comparison. SFH’s in Englewood cost you 50k, if that. Seller here is asking substantially more than that. So, it is all relative. That whole price to value thing. In this case, price to expected future lifespan.
Englewood is surrounded by, well, West Englewood and Chatam. At least wrigley is only two miles or so south of here.
“Why didn’t they want to sell for 380k when the new buyer could’ve taken advantage of an 8k tax credit?” Sorry, but it still shocks me that first-time home buyers making incomes that qualify for the credit were buying starter homes with ask prices at the $429 mark.
“How about next door’s 2/2 penthouse for $334,500?”
I’d rather live there for sure.
Bob,
100% wilson is by far the most entertaining stop on all lines. i have said this before, i am more scared and on-guard at the wilson stop than any south side stop, and especially once the sun goes down.
btw does it really matter what undergrad school you went to?
When we moved to Chicago and were looking at apartments (and prior to me discovering Everyblock), we looked at a very cute place a few blocks from the Wilson stop. When I asked the tenant why she was leaving she said she didn’t like having to drive everywhere. I asked her why she didn’t take the train and she gave me a weird look. Then we walked to the Wilson stop. We didn’t rent that apartment.
Saw this place this week. The pictures really make it look alot nicer than it is. Needs alot of work, no central air. Water damage in basement, and the lot itself is incredibly tiny. The back yard is also completely enclosed there is no alley so no possibility of puttin in parking
I lived off the Wilson stop in 1994-1995. It was a nightmare. It’s marginally better today, yet the Alderwoman still holds back any progress because it’s gentrification and, as such, it’s bad.
On that note, surprised Target even got through. Arguably, that’s a big box of Generica crap.
The CTA really needs to rebuild the Wilson stop from scratch. Public TIF money should have been included to rebuild this station.
I don’t understand how all of this money and effort went towards the Wilson Yards project without a penny going toward the train station. Mind boggling.