Magazine archive: Sale of the Week

This Crazy, Wavy-Walled Bucktown House Just Sold for $670,000

This Crazy, Wavy-Walled Bucktown House Just Sold for $670,000

With its off-kilter façade, tilting sides, and pie-shaped rooms, the 1995 house was a bit of an oddball.

This Evanston Classic Just Sold Near its 2002 Price—Despite a Huge Renovation

This Evanston Classic Just Sold Near its 2002 Price—Despite a Huge Renovation

This house was priced at $2.1 million back in 2008. After five years on and off the market, it sold in February for less than half of that. Much, much less.

Idiosyncratic Glencoe Mansion Sells at Fraction of 2007 Asking Price

Idiosyncratic Glencoe Mansion Sells at Fraction of 2007 Asking Price

List Price: $3.299 million
Sale Price: $3.025 million
The Property: When this Glencoe house overlooking Lake Michigan went on the...

Bucktown Contemporary Sells After Nearly Seven Years

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...

Realty Exec’s Strategic Default Ends With $2.1 Million Old Town Sale

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...

Discounted Foreclosure in Hot Blaine School Neighborhood

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...

Down (20 Percent) by the Riverside

Down (20 Percent) by the Riverside

List Price: $899,000
Sale Price: $795,000
The Property: In December 2003, fresh off an extensive restoration, this house in a...

Nate Berkus’s Slow-to-Sell Condo Suddenly Sells Fast

Nate Berkus’s Slow-to-Sell Condo Suddenly Sells Fast

List Price: $1.89 million
Sale Price: $1.6 million
The Property: An Astor Street condominium that the interior designer and TV host...

St. Charles Mansion Sells After Six Years

St. Charles Mansion Sells After Six Years

List Price: $1.995 million
Sale Price: $1.775 million
The Property: Previously priced by the builder at $4.8 million, this...

Former Motorola CEO Sells Water Tower Condo

Former Motorola CEO Sells Water Tower Condo

List Price: $1.595 million
Sale Price: $1.46 million
The Property: Ed Zander, the former chairman and CEO of Motorola, and his wife,...