504 South Loop Condos Get a Reboot
Three South Loop condo buildings, left with so many unsold units in the bust years that they were vertical ghost towns, are being brought back to life together by a...
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Bucktown Contemporary Sells After Nearly Seven Years
List Price: $1.899 million Sale Price: $1.6 million The Property: Two months shy of its seventh anniversary of going on the market, this 12-room house in Bucktown finally sold...
A Helmut Jahn Valentine to Chicago’s Nighttime Lights
List Price: $1.575 million The Property: You may recognize 600 North Fairbanks by its glassy curved corner or the cantilever on its north side that makes it appear the building...
Cook County Land Bank Gets Underway
Vacant foreclosed properties dot the map of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. So think of the new Cook County land bank as housing’s Georges Seurat; it’s trying to arrange all...
Realty Exec’s Strategic Default Ends With $2.1 Million Old Town Sale
List Price: $2.149 million Sale Price: $2.105 million The Property: Chris Feurer, the CEO of the Chicago real-estate brokerage Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty, sold his 7,000-square-foot house in Old Town on February 4...
Peddling a Pedal-Friendly Co-Op in Marshall Square
List Price: See Price Points below The Property: In a part of Little Village known as Marshall Square, a vintage, seven-unit greystone is cooperatively owned by a bicyclist-friendly group...
Battling over a Moldy Oldie in Beverly
Last August, David McClain and Sanaa Hachem paid $475,000 for a 106-year-old house in Beverly. They knew the place was in bad condition, but they expected to spend about $175,000...
Discounted Foreclosure in Hot Blaine School Neighborhood
List Price: $1.849 million Sale Price: $1.7 million The Property: This 13-room house is across the street from Blaine Elementary, one of the city’s best-performing grade schools and an anchor...
A Buyer’s Guide to Pullman
In the 1880s, the railroad-car magnate George Pullman built a factory and a company town for his employees on what’s now Chicago’s Far South Side. The industrial works have largely...
Chicago Fares Poorly in National Real-Estate News
If your Twitter feed is anything like mine, it seemed to be in two moods on Tuesday morning. Shortly after the release of the latest monthly data from the S&P/Case...