A feed from Deal Estate 2009-11-06T10:36:45-06:00 tag:www.chicagomag.com,2009-11-06:420 Copyright (c) 2009, Chicago Magazine Chicago Magazine Rivista tag:www.chicagomag.com,2009-11-06:63462009-11-06T10:36:45-06:002009-11-06T10:36:45-06:00Dennis Rodkin

tag:www.chicagomag.com,2009-11-05:63392009-11-05T09:56:00-06:002009-11-05T10:02:25-06:00Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $990,000
The Property: The west-suburban couple who bought this three-bedroom condo on the 27th floor of the new One Museum Park East tower in 2008 were counting on using it as a second home for city getaways. They also hoped to live in it full-time...]]>

tag:www.chicagomag.com,2009-11-04:63272009-11-04T03:05:05-06:002009-11-04T03:05:06-06:00Dennis Rodkin

@Properties went live with its upgraded site, and Dream Town Realty followed suit on November 3rd. Last week, both companies gave me a prelaunch look at their new sites, and I was impressed...]]>

tag:www.chicagomag.com,2009-11-02:63102009-11-02T08:07:00-06:002009-11-02T02:05:55-06:00Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $7.95 million
Sale Price: $5.2 million
The Property: The software entrepreneur Marc Ewing and his wife, Lisa Lee, last week sold their 26-room Sheridan Road mansion in Glencoe for just three-quarters of the price that they had paid for the gated estate nine years earlier.]]>

tag:www.chicagomag.com,2009-10-29:63002009-10-29T08:38:06-06:002009-10-29T08:38:06-06:00Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $1.499 million
The Property: It’s a view property, but what you see from this two-story townhouse at the base of a River North condo tower isn’t the usual grand sweep of skyline or lake. Instead, you get a human-scale view of a quieter stretch of the Chicago River and tranquil Erie Park, with the handsome old]]>

tag:www.chicagomag.com,2009-10-28:62962009-10-28T09:08:00-06:002009-10-28T03:57:38-06:00Dennis Rodkin

Wasik—a personal finance columnist for Bloomberg News and the author of a dozen books—was working on a book arguing that...]]>

tag:www.chicagomag.com,2009-10-26:62852009-10-26T08:13:00-06:002009-10-26T10:09:58-06:00Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $919,000
Sale Price: $916,000
The Property: At a time when Chicago appears to have the nation’s biggest logjam of unsold homes—enough to supply 19 months worth of sales, according to a recent Wall Street Journal survey of 28 major metro areas—a savvy investor has done his part to advance the...]]>

tag:www.chicagomag.com,2009-10-22:62752009-10-22T09:27:10-06:002009-10-22T09:27:11-06:00Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $1,175,000
The Property: This two-level penthouse unit is at Aspen 6, a Bucktown building. Its distinguishing feature (not visible from the street) is an enclosed second-story courtyard, shaped approximately like an eye, that all the condos look into.]]>

tag:www.chicagomag.com,2009-10-21:62592009-10-21T07:55:00-06:002009-10-22T04:34:18-06:00Dennis Rodkin

the old main post office and a Burr Ridge mansion—have been getting lots of press lately, but there are many other, less pricey properties up for auction in Chicago and the suburbs. By my count, auction houses will...]]>

tag:www.chicagomag.com,2009-10-18:62502009-10-18T03:46:42-06:002009-10-18T03:46:42-06:00Dennis Rodkin

List Price: N/A
Sale Price: $2.85 million
The Property: Jim McMahon, the quarterback who led the Chicago Bears to victory in Super Bowl XX, has quietly sold his Northbrook home of more than 20 years to a neighbor. McMahon and his wife, Nancy, raised their four kids in the house; the youngest, Zach, was a senior at Glenbrook North High School last year.]]>