Your Dream Walk-in Closet Awaits: A 2-Bedroom at 30 W. Oak in the Gold Coast
This 2-bedroom at 30 W. Oak in the Gold Coast came on the market in August 2015.
It went under contract almost immediately but then came back on the market.
30 W. Oak is one of the most popular buildings in the Gold Coast with units re-selling quickly and at high price points. Most of the units are large and face south.
But this unit is one of the rare smaller units.
At 1500 square feet, it faces north and west.
It has 11 foot ceilings and a Poggenpohl kitchen with Meile, Thermador and Subzero appliances.
The unit has honed Bianca White marble floors in the living/dining/kitchen area and espresso hardwood floors in the master bedroom.
The listing indicates the second bedroom is more like a den/office.
The unit, however, has one unique feature: the master bedroom’s walk-in closet is bigger than the second bedroom/den.
It has central air, washer/dryer in the unit and heated garage parking is available in the building.
The listing says “it’s a lifestyle” about the building.
Why hasn’t this sold yet?
Lisa Allegra at Coldwell Banker has the listing. See the pictures and the floor plan here.
Unit #5E: 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, 1500 square feet
- Sold in October 2006 for $722,500
- Originally listed in August 2015 for $750,000
- Was under contract in August
- Currently still listed at $750,000
- Assessments of $829 a month (includes heat, a/c, gas, doorman, cable, internet, exterior maintenance, scavenger, and snow removal)
- Taxes of $11866
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 15×13
- Bedroom #2: 8×11
- Laundry room: 5×5
- Walk-in closet: 15×12
One of my favorite buildings. The living area is gorgeous. My guess is that it isn’t selling as the market for $750k 1 bedrooms (which is all this really is when you look at the size of the 2nd bedroom) is relatively small.
Your typically 30 something professional couple can get more for their money elsewhere. The buyer of this will be an older empty nester couple or mid 40s/50s divorcee.
The view is also suspect since there are no pictures.
acrylic cabinets and stainless steel tile backsplash, now theres something DIFFERENT, and no microwave over the stove! True luxury!
Nice place though but the no outdoorspace, no view and only 1.5 baths might hold it back a little. Not sure if the empty nester buyers of this place will care.
I don’t like this place at all.
There are too many different types of flooring and I also hate tiled living areas. If they were going to tile it, they should have at least chosen a larger size tile.
Then, the bedroom floor looks like is manufactured hardwood. They should have gone with real wood planks.
The bathroom is marble overload. I hate when marble is tiled. Why couldn’t they use large slabs?
The walk-in closet is nice, but I would prefer a second full bathroom to a large closet.
I can’t tell, but is the wood a different color in the closet than in the bedroom? Also, why did the stager put random baby clothes in the closet?
Why wouldn’t they go with one brand of appliance in the kitchen?
At this price, I would have expected a more cohesive design and a parking space.
“acrylic cabinets” most likely lacquer. this developer put in some high end finishes. i believe they’re Poggenpohl.
I don’t get the tile floors.
“the bedroom floor looks like is manufactured hardwood. They should have gone with real wood planks.”
there’s reasons why you always see engineered floors in high rises. if a quality product is installed, they are more stable and less likely to warp due to the temperature changes and movement in high rises. you also can’t nail down solid wood to concrete subfloors. many engineered floors are glued down.
I have engineered hardwood in my unit and would love to switch to real hardwood. In a home at this price point, they should be able to figure out a way to use real hardwood. If they can’t use real hardwood, they need to do a better job making the engineered wood look like real hardwood.
Terrible use of space – a walk in closet larger than the “2nd bedroom”? Also no outdoor space is a negative, but not as much as the first point. I agree with the other posts on the tile, one big head-scratcher for most (if not all) of the units in this building.
Looks a bit like an ikea showroom; I suspect in 5 years you’ll be redoing essentially all of it as it will look quite dated.
“Looks a bit like an ikea showroom;”
Ikea is the most successful décor company in the world. I guess they’re doing something right.
This unit just went under contract again.
Ikea is crap, after accumulating too much of it in my poorer days I’ve been getting rid of the junk the past few years and am down to a single table. Ikea’s success is a bigger indictment of society’s disposable, not-built-to-last, whatever’s cheap expectations around consumer goods these days than it is testament to Ikea’s design skills.
I’m tellin ya, when building ikea furinture seal every single seam and junction you put together with gorilla glue, it increases the build quality 100% or more
I don’t understand the love for Ikea. I’ve been to an Ikea store exactly twice (the one in Schaumburg) and I just found it horribly depressing. If you want inexpensive furniture, go to Goodwill or garage sales or browse Craigslist.
The swarms of humanity in the Ikea and the clamoring over cheap furniture and those disgusting, horse meat meatballs would be enough to make any space alien hate the human race.
” Ikea’s success is a bigger indictment of society’s disposable, not-built-to-last, whatever’s cheap ”
I have much 10+ y.o. Ikea stuff that’s still in great functional and aesthetic (such as it is) shape. People (not necessarily you) either buy the crappiest Ikea thing, don’t actually like “Scandinavian” design, are bozos when they put it together, or all 3. And maybe they then move it from one apartment to another 6 times, which does *no* furniture any good, and especially not poorly assembled stuff.
“when building ikea furinture seal every single seam and junction you put together with gorilla glue”
Yeah, duh. When you put together wood *anything* that you don’t intend to dismantle, use glue. Doesn’t even have to be Gorilla–even Elmer’s School glue is a dramatic improvement.
“those disgusting, horse meat meatballs”
The US meatball are made in North America. The horsemeat is an Euro thing.
Here they’re made from Mexican Burros.
Damn, Jenny makes Ikea sound as bad as the CTA, just substitute chicken wings for horse meatballs.
Hah. At least CTA riders are generally doing something productive (going to work) and not racing each other to see who can get to the meatballs first or fighting for a parking space to load up on furniture.
Chicken wings
Why do people want to gnaw on things like gerbils? They eat their corn straight from the cob and gnaw on chicken wings and ribs.
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