Wildwood Tudor Reduces $40K: 6759 N. Wildwood
We last chattered about this 4-bedroom Tudor style single family home at 6759 N. Wildwood in the Wildwood neighborhood in June 2009.
See our prior chatter and pictures here.
It is still available and has been reduced by $40,000.
It has a new kitchen and addition at the back of the house for a more open living concept.
The listing also states that it has a new brick patio and is steps away from the forest preserve.
Ann Boyle at Koenig & Strey has the listing. See more pictures here.
6759 N. Wildwood: 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, no square footage listed, 1 car garage
- Sold in September 1989 for $205,000
- Originally listed in March 2009 for $899,000
- Reduced
- Was listed in June 2009 for $869,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $829,000
- Taxes of $9781
- Central Air
- Family room: 27×13
- Bedroom #1: 18×15
- Bedroom #2: 15×15
- Bedroom #3: 15×15
- Bedroom #4: 14×13
to nitpick, omniscient Google says that this house was once listed @ $1.075MM.
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=16462428391146797554&q=6759+N.+Wildwood+chicago&gl=us&cd=1&cad=src:pplink&ei=9nAmS_THEozYNon9yJoJ
chicago doesnt get any more suburban than wildwood. and i mean that in a “good suburban” way.
I’ve lived in town my whole life, and this is the first I’ve ever heard of the Wildwood neighborhood. I looked it up and found out that it is right next to Edgebrook.
“I’ve lived in town my whole life”
i thought you came from Alabama?
I know a guy who lives a block from here, he makes like 500k a year easy… I’m sure its a nice family friendly hood.
Sonies, tell your buddy who makes $500k a year to buy this house.
If he doesn’t buy it some $500k a year earning power couple will.
Why would he buy this house when he has a nicer one a block away?
And someone who makes 250k could afford this place, not that they would want to, but just sayin…
Pretty place for when I’m ready to move to the burbs but still have a Chicago address & taxes.
This house has a suburban look but the city address is key. I’d much rather commute downtown or into the city in general from here rather than for example, Naperville or Schaumburg. Those are suburbs. This area is suburban like but its no suburb.
Like “no suburb”. People in Oak Park or Evanston might disagree with you. Actually, a similar house in Oak Park is probably closer to downtown than this house, even the 1940s “suburban” ones in northwest Oak Park.
I think the goofy family room addition is still a major detriment. That one sided room was very poorly designed.
“I think the goofy family room addition is still a major detriment. That one sided room was very poorly designed.”
Seriously. Either it should have fit the style of the house better (esp. the exterior) or it should have created a more usable space. I can deal with ugly, if it’s exceedingly functional, or awkward and ugly if it’s cheap enough. That addition is awkward *and* ugly and the house aint cheap. Pretty unforgivable at the price point.
“Like “no suburb”. People in Oak Park or Evanston might disagree with you. Actually, a similar house in Oak Park is probably closer to downtown than this house, even the 1940s “suburban” ones in northwest Oak Park.”
You don’t have to worry about getting shot at on your commute from wildwood, perhaps that explains the difference?
Nor will some thug steal your iphone from your hands on the Green Line.
“You don’t have to worry about getting shot at on your commute from wildwood, perhaps that explains the difference?”
you beat me too it!!!!!!! or get your iphone stolen on the green line.
Price is a bit high if it was edgebrook school dist i wouldnt say a peep about the price or “addition” that doesnt match.
one good thing is your close to a good irish bar with good irish eats…Moher’s (sp) is a pretty darn good place.
830k and only 1 car garage?
Wait for it…
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epic fail.
And given the castle turret does this home include a chainmail vest and a 20 sided die?
“This house has a suburban look but the city address is key. I’d much rather commute downtown or into the city in general from here rather than for example, Naperville or Schaumburg. Those are suburbs. This area is suburban like but its no suburb.”
Stop being stupid. You can get a Fing golden mansion in those burbs for 830k. Oh yeah and at least a 3-car garage.
HD I dunno if you know this yet but eventually having a CITAYYY address to impress your friends back in Downers Grove or Iowa or (insert other lame Chicagoland burb or yokel MW state) is outweighed by the more practical considerations of decent schools, etc.
You guys are idiots and you fail to recognize the forest for the trees. Of course the price is ridiculous. The entire neighborhood pricing is out of control. But that doesn’t affect the fact that this home is in a decent area.
5 minute walk to Metra (clean, no urine smell) with a 24 minute ride downtown to Union Station.
3 minute drive on Peterson to 94-S; from there it’s a 14 min drive downtown. Near a public golf course, forest preserve, etc.
Decent housing stock, wealthier upscale crowd, short drive to evanston, edison park, park ridge, old orchard, or head downtown. Decent elementary school but I”m not too sure about the high school.
Again, pricing is ridiculous. Then again, you couldn’t pay me to live in a block by block neighborhood like west town or logan sq, when there are areas like this where every block is nice and leafy and safe.
This is like the Beverly of the northside except it ain’t surround by ghetto.
“Stop being stupid. You can get a Fing golden mansion in those burbs for 830k. Oh yeah and at least a 3-car garage.
HD I dunno if you know this yet but eventually having a CITAYYY address to impress your friends back in Downers Grove or Iowa or (insert other lame Chicagoland burb or yokel MW state) is outweighed by the more practical considerations of decent schools, etc.”
Guess what HD? If I can afford an 830k house you better be damn sure I’m not slumming it on the El OR Metra. I’ll be driving my M5 into a garage near where I work.
Thats these idiots forgot during the bubble: people that can really afford places like these don’t slum it near middle class folk or hipsters on the RTA or CTA, respectively.
Its a completely laughable price premium for places like this– people thought the premium for proximity to public transit extends to even properties like this. LMAO!
Sorry dude this ain’t a 250k LP or LV condo or even a place where middle class folk desire the ease of the commute on public transport.
This is priced as an 830k property. And if I had the legitimate means to really afford an almost million dollar property you’d best be sure I wouldn’t be on public transit and I’d consider anyone who was stupid or insane.
This is a 450k house at best, which is what it would be if it were in Park Ridge. City premium should equal zero (or even negative) out here. Next.
Also given that the owner is obviously in fairy tale land with that ask price and given the castle turret on the place, maybe they are hoping for a Dungeons & Dragons goblin to come in a snap this place up. bwahaha!
Seriously? Just because a person can afford a $4-5k monthly housing payment immediately disqualifies them from using public trans? Bob, stop projecting so much – especially when the public option here is Metra.
I don’t disagree with *everything* that you or HD state, but I’ll pick on this point as simply silly. I’ll back up that assertion with looking at income and home values along the Metra lines. Oak Park? Hinsdale? Naperville? St. Charles? You are saying that not a single household in one of these collar suburbs by extension took into account the proximity to the Metra in their purchase?
Just as this house is in a suburb – like setting (and as already pointed out nearly as far) my comparison holds.
Yes the house price is in la-la land but somebody will pay a lot more than 450k for this house.
Perhaps if they offer 2 years of Metra vouchers (or whatever folk call them) this place will move. Old Town strategy – let’s see if it works here!
“Perhaps if they offer 2 years of Metra vouchers (or whatever folk call them) this place will move. Old Town strategy – let’s see if it works here”
Its now official, it took a bit, but Jon now is a full-on Jaded and sarcastic cribchattererer. It was like just yesterday Jon was upbeat and positive on CC posted properties. he is now part of the Dark Side.
“I’ll back up that assertion with looking at income and home values along the Metra lines. Oak Park? Hinsdale? Naperville? St. Charles? You are saying that not a single household in one of these collar suburbs by extension took into account the proximity to the Metra in their purchase?”
And all of New Trier township and Highland Park, etc., etc., etc. up the north lakefront. I know lots of people* who could easily afford a $1mm home who take Metra regularly from the North Shore. True, most of them drive to the train**, but wouldn’t if their walk were 3 blocks instead of 1 mile+.
*yeah, more than 2.
**and many of them do drive downtown sometimes.
Its too bad the RTA ditched the booze car cuz methinks the new owner will need it to deal with their outsized mortgage payment.
“Its now official, it took a bit, but Jon now is a full-on Jaded and sarcastic cribchattererer. It was like just yesterday Jon was upbeat and positive on CC posted properties. he is now part of the Dark Side.”
I’m still the same Jon! Just have to laugh a little when I see things like the expectation that a power couple will move to the nearly-burbs and settle for a one car garage… Or that a family will live in an uber-home in Old Town with rented parking. I just don’t see it. You know my hangups. Must love dogs and must have parking. Oh, and outdoor space in the city. And an agent that earns his or her keep. And central air. And stainless steel appliances. (this is just the beginning of the list) See — I have very few requirements!
I’m getting jaded about the listings because it really is a buyer’s markets and sellers are putting crap on the market at silly prices.
Wildwood is a great hood, beautiful quiet streets, good neighbors, very close to shopping (still have to drive), if it hasnt rained Edgebrook golf course is a good public course, forest preserve is a short walk away.
but at 800k for me is hard to swallow, that price and 3k more in taxes i can be in winnetka or wilmette on a bigger lot and way better schools. or if me or the wife were city workers but wanted suburb feel then why wouldnt i buy in neighbor edgebrook(for a better school), Edison Park/Norwood Park(better schools Park ridge amenities close), Beverly(get same size house half the price), Bridgeport(close to downtown)?
its, well at 800k you have many options no matter your circumstance.
“I have very few requirements”
thats what my wife said when we met. man that was a lie 🙂
“Just have to laugh a little when I see things like the expectation that a power couple will move to the nearly-burbs and settle for a one car garage”.
I luagh every day thanks to sabrina and the crib chatterererers. CC is my daytime entertainment.
one positive it i can bet this garage is not used for a car. there will be one day out of the year that you wont get a parking spot right in front of your house in wildwood.
$850k is ridiculous like a lot of prices on CC but the neighborhood isn’t half bad. It’s a decent middle ground between the suburbs and the city, without being in war zone in west logan square and being in some gated community in lake zurich. Just because some of you don’t find it to be desirable doesn’t mean that it’s not a decent area to live. Here’s a map of all sold properties in the vicinity over the last six months. I think you’ll be surprised how well the area has held it’s value. No way will this house sell in the 800’s! That’s a joke! But it seems to have comps in the $500’s or $600’s.
http://www.redfin.com/search#lat=42.00207919255764&long=-87.76179313659668&market=chicago&sf=&sold_within_days=180&v=5&zoomLevel=15
Really great neighborhood. Top Rated Wildwood School District.
But, I think at 800K you have a lot of options including probably new construction in Park Ridge etc.
To the guy who said he would “Guess what HD? If I can afford an 830k house you better be damn sure I’m not slumming it on the El OR Metra. I’ll be driving my M5 into a garage near where I work.”
Man you really should get a clue. Walking dist to a Metra in North Shore, NW Burbs is a huge upside. Gas at $2.69 won’t last forever.
24 minute metra ride in comfort reading the newspaper for $3.00 vs. sitting in traffic for 45-60 minutes paying $5.00 in gas….
The choice is obvious for me.
“Top Rated Wildwood School District”
i will differ on that opinion, in this area Edgebrook is the good rated schools. and even sauganash school is above wildwood.
I guess wildwood is in top 30 for CPS schools (not saying a lot) but state wide it doesnt break the top 100.
Gocubs, how is your new house on nina :)? (i am speculating it was you who bought it)
“24 minute metra ride in comfort reading the newspaper for $3.00 vs. sitting in traffic for 45-60 minutes paying $5.00 in gas….
The choice is obvious for me.”
Oh HD you are so clueless, don’t you know only big shots and cool people drive to work, you are so poor, and stupid, you just have no idea how everyone else in their metal coffins (or awesome machines) are laughing at you while you sleep, read, drink, on your way to work while they are busy honking and screaming at the cab that just cut them off. What a boob you really are.
“I guess wildwood is in top 30 for CPS schools (not saying a lot) but state wide it doesnt break the top 100.”
27th in CPS, 367th in the state, based on the Sun-Times Oct-09 ranking.
“24 minute metra ride in comfort reading the newspaper for $3.00 vs. sitting in traffic for 45-60 minutes paying $5.00 in gas….”
You get free parking at work w/in walking distance of the Metra? Excellent!
“27th in CPS, 367th in the state, based on the Sun-Times Oct-09 ranking”
thank you anon, wow i wasnt even close to the state number. makes this house even more HUH.
Yeah, I forgot about the cost of parking. It’s been one of those days!
“Gocubs, how is your new house on nina :)? (i am speculating it was you who bought it)”
Nope it wasn’t me. I should have for 850K but I think it was an all cash offer from what I’ve heard.
“thank you anon, wow i wasnt even close to the state number. makes this house even more HUH.”
But on the S-T “score” #367 is about as far behind #100 as #100 is behind #6, and is the same amount ahead of #750. So the ranking makes it look relatively worse than it (likely–don’t trust the lists except as a guide and for trend) is.
Ogden, Edison Park, Sauganash, Disney(!-#685), and Nettlehorst are among the CPS schools ranked behind Wildwood on the S-T scale.
I think Wildwood has a magnet school that any kid in the neighborhood can get into. I might be missing something but that was what my assumption was.
“Ogden, Edison Park, Sauganash, Disney(!-#685), and Nettlehorst are among the CPS schools ranked behind Wildwood on the S-T scale.”
I thought Edison was gifted until this year? and over flow from Oriole and ebinger were going there? surprised its didnt do well.
Edison Gifted shutdown this year and is now open to any neighborhood kid. Good decision considering how many kids are in 60631 now
Whats the link for the school ratings?
Thanks
“Whats the link for the school ratings?”
This is what I was looking at, but only b/c it was quick and easy to find. There are more comprehenisve lists, but I don’t have them bookmarked.
http://labs.suntimes.com/reportcards/
“There are more comprehenisve lists, but I don’t have them bookmarked.”
mine are book marked on my home laptop. Suntimes does a good job of getting a list together with the test scores. but there are so many other variables that go into a schools success. (i am a big beliver of smaller class sizes, oriole park deflates that theroy with its 40 kids per class).
I remember chicagoMag did a school comparison back in 2007,
and anon forwarded this website once http://www.illinoisloop.org/spending.html
Tip: when you see those cheap generic wood spindles (railing btwn kitchen and supposed “family room” space) you know that it’s an inexpensively constructed remodeling project sourced out of Home Depot. Sub-Zero doesn’t mask cheap-o addition.
Wildwood has pretensions of being Winnetka/Wilmette of Chicago, it has some beautiful streetscapes of mature tree canopies. But housing stock tends to be over-remodeled small homes (and now pick-up truck tract houses on teardown parcels), prettiness disappears as you go further westward and northward, and prices outstrip real market-value of property. Not a good buy, but ok if you promise to stay forever – like many Wildwood lifers. Taxes are relatively low given nice lots and upper-middle-class pretentions, but factor in the Loyola, Regina, or Ignatius HS tuition, because not everyone gets into Northside Prep (unless you’re clouted-up, was common enough here in Wildwood, Edgebrook, and Saugnash). Public HS is unacceptable, even if your kid has been expelled from Catholic school.
Edison is still gifted but it moved to Albany Park and shares space with a middle school. I think it is in its second year at the new location. The old school reverted to being a neighborhood school.
“24 minute metra ride in comfort reading the newspaper for $3.00 vs. sitting in traffic for 45-60 minutes paying $5.00 in gas….
The choice is obvious for me.
…
Yeah, I forgot about the cost of parking. It’s been one of those days!”
What part of saving a couple hundred bucks a month is inconsequential to those who can realistically afford an 830k pad do you not understand?
Seriously all those who chastised me for dissing public transit (aside from anon) are living in fantasyland.
Driving to work in a nice car and paying for garage parking is inconsequential to someone who can realistically afford an 830k place. Its peanuts.
You plebs with no context (and I’m a pleb too, but at least with context), fail to realize that someone who actually pays a fair price for this (ie: 450-550k) can easily afford a luxury car and lifetime parking downtown.
Don’t forget these fiscally fat idiots are counting on another idiot to deliver them outsized appreciation from their investment 20 years prior. HD believes they are entitled to at least 150%. I think that at MOST, and only if they’re lucky.
Also, Wicker, get a darn clue. Shouldn’t you be in Copenhagen right now throwing eggs at politicos? I take the same public transit you do likely but its more by necessity than choice. The bus and the El both suck and with the Metra you’re a slave to their schedule. Its so true and you know it.
“someone who actually pays a fair price for this (ie: 450-550k) can easily afford a luxury car and lifetime parking downtown.”
Err someone who could afford ask but instead pays a fair price and uses the difference for this. Actually a FRACTION of the difference for this.
“It’s a decent middle ground between the suburbs and the city”
Worst of both worlds IMO. The 850k ask just makes it all the more laughable, hysterical actually. Know what 850k buys in Park Ridge? This place is a medieval joke.
“or if me or the wife were city workers but wanted suburb feel then why wouldnt i buy in neighbor edgebrook(for a better school), Edison Park/Norwood Park(better schools Park ridge amenities close), Beverly(get same size house half the price), Bridgeport(close to downtown)?”
Groove please treat these pockets like some sort of masonic secret and minimize mention on here, at least until the FHA goes under or stops offering under 10% down loans to the “howmuchamonth?” crowd. Do you really want 130k income not quite power couples bidding up the price of these remaining pockets to 500k/SFH like the rest of the nicer parts of the city due to their ability to secure a 25k down payment from their savings and parents and belief that RE “always goes up”?
Afterall they’re just going to sell when their kids hit school age anyway as Architect eloquently stated–they can’t afford the private school tuition in any case.
Generally speaking, people in this income bracket take public transit is because it is faster, not because it is cheaper. The problem here is that you still have to drive to the metra stop. Might as well move to the burbs.
Note that though home prices are high in certain parts of nicer Wildwood, Edgebrook, and Saugnash, the median income level doesn’t support those high($500,000+) price-points – meaning that many local homeowners have lived in neighborhood for years, often for two plus generations, and their “asking prices” for homes have outstripped most residents’ ability to “purchase” their own homes. Median household incomes for these neighborhoods are more alligned with range for white-collar managerial and supervisory blue-collar City of Chicago wage-scales.
This is not a $800,000+ house, whether located in Wildwood or Wilmette. In Wilmette, it probably would be “right-priced” now at $700,000, to reflect its addition and new kitchen. In Wildwood, it’ll sit on market for another year unless price is reduced to $625,000 – IF seller gets lucky enough to find buyers who have a $300,000 household income and are desparate for Wildwood for some reason (likely extended family ties to neighborhood).
Upon 2nd thought, the proximity to the metra, the highway, the north branch trail, a decent cps elementary school, and, being surrounded by upper-middle class neighbors in Chicago isn’t worth anything. This is a crapshack worth no more than the 1989 price. I’d rather live in a logan square war zone fAr from the el with no reliable public school options at 500k or more. How stupid of me for ever considering wildwood for my family. I may as well move to Aurora bc it may be even better than wildwood.
No one disputes this house is overpriced. The question is whether this is a livable neighborhood for cribchatterers. Apparently not at any price.
“Groove please treat these pockets like some sort of masonic secret and minimize mention on here, at least until the FHA goes under or stops offering under 10% down loans to the “howmuchamonth?” crowd”
noted Bob, i will keep it on the hush hush. Still think beverly need more exposure and pull in some yuppies to restore those beautiful historic homes there.
HD,
i have been Pro-wildwood i said above “Wildwood is a great hood, beautiful quiet streets, good neighbors, very close to shopping (still have to drive), if it hasnt rained Edgebrook golf course is a good public course, forest preserve is a short walk away”
I just cant swallow that price with so much more out there. And with nice homes in the neighboring community (cant say the name cause of bob) for cheaper and closer to happy foods, moher’s, and the discount toy shop, i am not anti-wildwood and i am not saying this house isnt worth the 800k, i am just saying 800k will take you pretty far and next summer even farther.
“The problem here is that you still have to drive to the metra stop. Might as well move to the burbs.”
It’s about 3/4 of a mile. I walked about that far last night–not recommended for fun, but hardly awful–it’s certainly *not* a *must* drive distance, for an able-bodied person, in any except the worst weather (downpours + ~10 days a year–some of those falling on weekends).
Park Ridge sucks bob, you better be getting a frickin 10k sqft mansion there for 850k. Wildwood is about a million times better. Then again you’re from Kentucky or Ohio or some other shithole so maybe proximity to other wealthy people isn’t a priority for you.
What exactly do you know about Park Ridge Sonies other than it sucks?
About as much as bob seems to know about Wildwood
hahahaha nice answer.
“homedelete on December 16th, 2009 at 6:58 am Upon 2nd thought, the proximity to the metra, the highway, the north branch trail, a decent cps elementary school, and, being surrounded by upper-middle class neighbors in Chicago isn’t worth anything. This is a crapshack worth no more than the 1989 price. I’d rather live in a logan square war zone fAr from the el with no reliable public school options at 500k or more. How stupid of me for ever considering wildwood for my family. I may as well move to Aurora bc it may be even better than wildwood.”
Im guessing your being sarcastic?
I agree its not worth 850K but its a real nice area.
“Sonies on December 16th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Park Ridge sucks bob, you better be getting a frickin 10k sqft mansion there for 850k. Wildwood is about a million times better. Then again you’re from Kentucky or Ohio or some other shithole so maybe proximity to other wealthy people isn’t a priority for you.”
Your being sarcastic right?
“Im guessing your being sarcastic?”
When reading HD lately, one is better off first assuming sarcasm until something indicates otherwise.
Kind of a new guy here so thanks for clearing it up.
Guys,
I have a randomn and probably dumb question. Do the majority of large banks (Chase,BOA) go thru Fannie Mae/Freddit Mac to get their financing? The reason I’m asking is b/c I’m having trouble closing due to a Fannie Mae issue.
Thanks
“I have a randomn and probably dumb question. Do the majority of large banks (Chase,BOA) go thru Fannie Mae/Freddit Mac to get their financing? The reason I’m asking is b/c I’m having trouble closing due to a Fannie Mae issue”
Call Russ, Russ is the bank guru i have noticed. his website is callruss.com and there is a link to ask him question that is a perlmortgage.com address.
sorry its not a quick answer to your question
Tom,
did you get your question answered?
Groove,
Yes I did, thank you for your help.
Sold 4/29 770k
This house is so good it needs not one but two mortgages
Executed Recorded Document Type Case No. Amount
1012447067 04/28/2010 05/04/2010 MORTGAGE $417,000.00
Executed Recorded Document Type Case No. Amount
1012447068 04/28/2010 05/04/2010 MORTGAGE $199,000.00
HD:
It was likely to get the best financing terms. If they paid 770k for it and only financed 616k, that’s a 154k downpayment, or 20%. These days it’s my understanding the jumbo spread has come down quite a bit so they could probably do it with one jumbo.