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…
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.
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…
This sprawling, once-bohemian northwest nabe has tipped.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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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…
Last August, David McClain and Sanaa Hachem paid $475,000 for a 106-year-old house in Beverly. They knew the place was in bad condition, but they expected to spend about $175,000 and six months restoring the home. “We were excited to do this renovation,” Hachem said….
