Buyers Get Bargain on Barrington Hills Estate
List Price: $8.9 million Sale Price: $7.5 million The Property: A Barrington Hills estate that encompasses two golf holes, a pond stocked with fish, and more than a thousand trees—not...
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A Green Home Grows in Bucktown
List Price: $1.79 million The Property: Some of the greenest buildings are old ones that get reused rather than torn down. That was the philosophy behind this single-family home in...
Can Two Historical North Shore Houses Be Saved?
Two historical North Shore homes, both on the market, were built according to very different aesthetics and are at price points far removed from one another. But they do have...
Sambolin Sells Maher-Designed Home in Oak Park
List Price: $1.65 million Sale Price: $1.34 million The Property: The television journalist Zoraida Sambolin and her husband, John Hobbs, have sold their six-bedroom Prairie-style home in Oak Park...
How Foreclosures and Land Banking Could Transform Midwestern Cities
We’ve known for a few years that the foreclosure crisis has led banks to offer some seized homes at bargain-basement prices. Now an executive with a real-estate company that focuses...
In Winnetka, a Tudor for the 21st Century
List Price: $3.1 million The Property: When it was built in 1903, this Tudor-style home in Winnetka was more of a country house, with just one large estate between it...
Riding High at the Bristol
List Price: $6.795 million Sale Price: $6 million The Property: A two-story penthouse at the top of the Bristol, a condominium building at 57 East Delaware Place, sold Tuesday for...
Former Chapel Now a Heavenly House in LaGrange
List Price: $699,900 The Property: As you will see in today’s video, the old informs the new in this century-old Swedish Evangelical chapel in LaGrange that’s now a three-bedroom house....
Finding an Affordable Home Near a Good School
There are many nice homes for sale or rent in Chicago, and there are some high-performing schools. But finding a home in the district of a good CPS school was...
In Oak Brook, a Dance of the Seven Veils Pricing Strategy
List Price: $2.499 million Sale Price: $2.3 million The Property: In the three years between going on the market at $3.595 million in June 2009 and being sold for $2.3...