In Independence Park, This Chicago Classic Needs A Dog
List Price: $449,900
The Property: There’s a short street in Independence Park lined with bungalows, Victorians, and other classic Chicago homes. New on the market is a farmhouse-style house…
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504 South Loop Condos Get a Reboot
Three South Loop condo buildings, left with so many unsold units in the bust years that they were vertical ghost towns, are being brought back to life together by a company that bought 504 units from their original developer in a “deed in lieu of foreclosure” deal…
Rodkin on Non-Residents Buying Distressed Properties
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Jason from British Columbia, Canada asks if he can find Chicago properties at rock-bottom prices—that are not in bad neighborhoods.
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 market, this 12-room house in Bucktown finally sold…
A Guide to Logan Square: Where to Eat, Shop, and Play
This sprawling, once-bohemian northwest nabe has tipped.
A Helmut Jahn Valentine to Chicago’s Nighttime Lights
List Price: $1.575 million
The Property: You may recognize 600 North Fairbanks by its glassy curved corner or the cantilever on its north side that makes it appear the building was squeezed onto its site…
Cook County Land Bank Gets Underway
Vacant foreclosed properties dot the map of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. So think of the new Cook County land bank as housing’s Georges Seurat; it’s trying to arrange all those individual dots into something new and better…
Rodkin on Converting a Room Back to Its Original Purpose Before Selling
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Amy from Forest Park asks if she should change what’s currently a homework/library/computer room back to a dining room before showing the house to potential buyers.
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 Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty, sold his 7,000-square-foot house in Old Town on February 4…
Peddling a Pedal-Friendly Co-Op in Marshall Square
List Price: See Price Points below
The Property: In a part of Little Village known as Marshall Square, a vintage, seven-unit greystone is cooperatively owned by a bicyclist-friendly group…