Sale of the Week

11/5/12

Wilmette Mansion Sells for 37 Percent Below Its 2010 Sale Price

List Price: $2.9 million
Sale Price: $3 million
The Property: After a big markdown designed to get this 16-room mansion on the Wilmette lakefront sold, the highest bidder got it for $3 million on October 30...

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10/29/12

Beachy Keen in Edgewater

List Price: $1.495 million
Sale Price: $1.2 million
The Property: Behind the crazy glass, steel, and brick geometry of this Edgewater townhouse lies a distinctive space: a 10-room home from which residents can walk right out onto the northernmost tip of Lincoln Park and the park’s farthest-north beach Kathy Osterman Beach...

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10/22/12

Glencoe House Joins Neighbor in $4 Million-Plus Club

List Price: $4.5 million
Sale Price: $4.5 million
The Property: When it sold October 11, this home on the bluff above Lake Michigan in Glencoe was the second on its block to go for over $4 million in the past few months...

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10/15/12

Fisher Condo Finally Reels in a Buyer

List Price: $1,095,000
Sale Price: $1,159,000
The Property: The largest and most lavishly ornamented condo in the landmark art moderne Fisher Studio Houses sold October 9 after more than three and a half years on the market...

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10/8/12

Maybe Third Time’s the Charm in Kenilworth

List Price: $3.795 million
Sale Price: $3.25 million
The Property: At the end of September, this Kenilworth mansion sold at a steep discount for the third time in three and a half years...

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10/1/12

Mr. Big Stuff Eats Crow

List Price: $749,900
Sale Price: $685,000
The Property: In June, Scott Sasse, a real-estate agent who specializes in the West Loop, e-mailed me the listing for his own condo, which he had just put on the market...

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9/24/12

Odd Façades: E is for Erie, F is for Fish

The Properties: The façades of two recently sold new houses in the city feature big, playful visual puns—and each of them is part of a different builder’s long-range game plan...

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9/17/12

Why Another Homeowner Converted to Renting

List Price: $1.2 million
Sale Price: $1.07 million
The Property: Kathy Posner, the longtime Chicago PR exec and civic volunteer, sold her 2,900-square-foot North Michigan Avenue condo for $1.07 million...

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9/10/12

Unfinished Business at the Former Elysian

List Price: $4.795 million
Sale Price: $4.3 million
The Property: A healthcare executive who never got around to finishing the 4,000-square-foot condo he bought in 2010 at the Elysian sold it last Thursday for $4.3 million...

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9/3/12

A Shell Off the Shelf in Lincoln Park

List Price: $2.3 million
Sale Price: $1.73 million
The Property: In early August, buyers picked up a shell of a home left unfinished since early 2009. Situated in a quiet, pedestrian-only enclave of new, large homes...