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A Pre-Fire Farmhouse in Lincoln Park
List Price: $1,574,900
The Property: Just off the thriving Armitage Avenue shopping strip, on a Lincoln Park street filled with homes from different eras, stands a house that watched them all arrive. Built in 1861 as the farmhouse for a truck farm that delivered its produce into Chicago, the house still has several of its original elements...
Condo Swaps in Itasca
A little over three years after they downsized from a house in Elmhurst to a condo in Itasca, Phil and Connie Mangano are getting ready to move to another new condo—without spending a dollar. With just seven of 70 condos sold at Two Itasca Place, its developer, Don Morris, is converting the building into apartments and moving the Manganos and other buyers there into nearly identical condos next door at One Itasca Place...
Rodkin on Why Sellers Ignore Offers
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Tom from the West Loop asks why a seller would ignore a reasonable offer from a potential homebuyer.
On the Waterfront, Four Big Sales
In the past month, four multimillion-dollar homes on the North Shore lakefront have been sold—more than were sold in any single month in 2011. The quartet ranged in price from $2.325 million to $7.5 million, and they all shared views out over Lake Michigan...
The Queen of Terra Cotta Row
List Price: $2.495 million
The Property: During its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company made Chicago the capital of architectural ornamentation. The company’s officers weren’t shy about using their products on their homes on Terra Cotta Row, a cluster of four homes on the 1000 block of West Oakdale in Lake View...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Heller House Hits the Market Today
After being on sale informally for a couple of weeks, a treasured Frank Lloyd Wright design in Hyde Park, the Isidore H. Heller House, officially hits the market today. Completed in 1897, the residence signaled Wright’s turn away from the richly ornamented style of his boss, Louis Sullivan...
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Where to Buy Now
Here are 14 up-and-coming Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs where prices are relatively low and the promise for future growth is strong.
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Mansion Foreclosure Sells For Less Than LandAn unfinished 15,000-square-foot home goes for less than the cost of the site |
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West Loop Condo Gets HelpDeveloper’s improvements assist him and current condo owners |
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How to Flip a ForeclosureTwo investors recast a boom-years ploy for today’s down market |
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Prize-Winning Woodlawn Condo CompletedNorthbrook builder erects final structure in South Side quartet |
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Condo Prices Fall on Lemont CondosDeveloper tugs down cost of Lemont properties near historic channel |
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Overbuilt West Loop Condo BargainsBelgravia buys project's foreclosed condos, then passes along savings |
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