Deal Estate - Chicago

07/02/09

On the Market: A Keck House in its Retro Prime—Budlong Woods

List Price: $1.399 million
The Property: Typical of the mid-century modern houses designed by Keck & Keck, this house in Budlong Woods presents to the street a low, somewhat inscrutable profile and then opens big inside: the L-shaped, 1,000-square-foot living and dining area has a 38-foot-long south wall that is virtually all windows...

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07/01/09

Housing Bulletin: Bill Rancic Buys and Sells—and Other Celebrity News

Bill Rancic, the Chicagoan who first won Donald Trump’s TV reality show The Apprentice, has turned out to be the buyer of a foreclosed condo at the Park Tower that I wrote about here in early June. Rancic had also shown up in the July issue of Chicago after he and his wife sold a Gold Coast graystone for...

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06/29/09

Sale of the Week: Off the Ice — Lincoln Park

List Price: $3.125 million
Sale Price: $2.725 million
The Property: Although he hasn’t skated for the Chicago Blackhawks since 2004, Alexei Zhamnov held on to his 11-room Lincoln Park home until last week, closing on its sale on June 24th...

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06/25/09

On the Market: Hiding in Plain Sight on the Gold Coast

List Price: $4.975 million
The Property: You could prowl the streets of the Gold Coast for a long time (as I have) and hardly notice this 4,000-square-foot home. Originally built in 1888 as the coach house for two Astor Street houses, this residence now conceals itself behind draping vines and an almost invisible charcoal-colored brick façade...

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06/24/09

Housing Bulletin: Dreaming Big near Winnetka

Earlier this month, Vince Gerasole of CBS2 Chicago reported that a 35,000-square-foot mansion in Burr Ridge with a $25-million price tag was the most expensive home on the market in Illinois. Apparently Gerasole didn’t know about this super-lavish Winnetka mansion that is priced at $32 million...

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06/22/09

Sale of the Week: Moskow’s Retreat — Winnetka

List Price: $2.195 million
Sale Price: $1.8 million
The Property: This handsome Georgian with 14 rooms stands on a lush two thirds of an acre on Sheridan Road in Winnetka. Michael Moskow, who was the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago until retiring in 2007, owned the house for 32 years before selling it...

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06/18/09

On the Market: All That Jazz — Lake View

List Price: $849,000
The Property: I felt an urge to ring for the butler and have him fetch my tuxedo as I toured this elegant four-bedroom home in a 1926 co-op building near Belmont Harbor. The expansive floor plan takes you back to the glamour of the Jazz Age, and a recent renovation updated the home’s mechanicals while polishing up its vintage...

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06/17/09

Housing Bulletin: More Park for Forest Park?

UPDATED Municipal leaders in Forest Park are eying a failed condo and townhouse development as an ideal place to expand the village’s 12-acre Station Park. But first voters must approve the plan in a referendum scheduled for next spring...

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06/15/09

Sale of the Week: A Tale of Four Houses—North Shore

List Price: $1.9 million
Sale Price: $1 million
The Property: Today’s house, situated in an unincorporated area near Winnetka, once carried a price tag of $5.1 million. But that price was for a finished home—and not only was this house never finished, but the company that built it ended up handing the home back to its lender, Mutual Bank, last October. On May 26th, the bank...

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06/11/09

On the Market: Heart of Glass, Old Town

It must be nice to have an architect like Rodrigo del Canto for a father. When his two daughters were young, del Canto built them a rooftop pool above the garage of the family’s Lincoln Park home. A few years ago, designing a new home in Old Town for himself and the two girls—teenagers by...

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