Yes, There Are Still Multiple Offers on Properties: 1322 N. Oakley in Wicker Park
Multiple offers haven’t gone away, there are just fewer of them.
This 4-bedroom brick house at 1322 N. Oakley in Wicker Park went under contract within 6 days with multiple offers.
The house, built in 1893, appears to have all the bells and whistles including a two car garage and central air.
It also has not only a backyard but a huge rooftop deck, so you can enjoy two outdoor spaces.
The kitchen has the usual granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances and maple cabinets. Three of the bedrooms are on the second level.
The home is also selling over its 2005 purchase price.
Mario Greco at Prudential Rubloff has the listing. See more pictures and a virtual tour here.
See the property website here.
1322 N. Oakley: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 2 car garage, no square footage listed
- Sold in May 1994 for $105,000
- Sold in March 1996 for $234,500
- Sold in May 2000 for $100,000 (?)
- Sold in October 2001 for $460,000
- Sold in July 2005 for $650,000
- Originally listed in September 2009 for $699,000
- Increased
- Currently listed for $719,000
- Under contract in 6 days
- Taxes of $7057
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 19×12
- Bedroom #2: 16×10
- Bedroom #3: 11×10
- Bedroom #4: 15×11 (lower level)
seems like a nice place. a little far from the el. and i think there is a school on that street.
I remember the first time i saw white people jogging in this area freaked me out, it was on this street, man times have changed!
wonder what affect clemente HS so close will be on the sale?
Jose De Diego is on Claremont, the next street over. And Clemente is, as Groove says, right over on Division. Diego is a feeder for Clemente, and a neighborhood school. Seems not have had any affect on sale price, when compared to its own 05 price. Don’t know about nearby comps, but it would be complicated by neighborhood change anyway.
p.s. those looking for an Olympic boost to the housing market, especially around proposed sites, have gotta be feeling it today.
yeah get ready to scoop up the deals; you can always plan for 2020
Congrats to Ze Car!
Ze is probably already twisting up a celebratory one at Posto Nove!
lived a few blocks east of here 06-08. i wouldn’t call the area dangerous at night but i know people who got mugged and i there were definitely a fair amount of break-ins. if i was to live in Wicker Park (which I’m not sure this actually is?) again i wouldn’t live west of Levitt.
Woke up from my post party heat exhaustion nap…. some day!
I hope a few of you make it down here for the games. You will love it here.
Only confusing thing to me is September is the winter here so how can it be the summer games?
And Roma.. Ze isn’t that stupid. Ze knows better than to twist one up in public in a country where the police see it as financing their enemies! Ze did bust out his homemade bamboo bong for a celebratory one when he got home though 🙂
I can see why it got “snapped up”: its not ridiculously overpriced, is a SFH, has a nice backyard (albeit small but this is the city), a rooftop deck and has a two car garage for both spouses.
This should be a warning to others at this pricepoint that if your property does not have all these things maybe it is overpriced but I bet few will heed it.
In the future, architects and rehabbers should make the front living room much smaller (since nobody uses it), move the kitchen up, and make the rear family room bigger. I always see first floors organized like this one’s, and the living room is just wasted space.
DanL: I actually have an opposite preference. I’d rather ditch the rear family room that’s connected to the kitchen and have a formal dining room. keep the larger front room as long as it the flow of the room allows for conversations after dinner. That is more typical to how I’d use the space.
But, I don’t have kids, and can conceed that the family room in back would make more sense to keep tabs on them while cooking.