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….
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Don from Streeterville asks if he and his sister should invest in foreclosures despite their concerns about undesirable tenants and high maintenance costs.
A Frank Lloyd Wright short sale and other updates from the real estate front
List Price: $1.849 million
Sale Price: $1.7 million
The Property: This 13-room house is across the street from Blaine Elementary, one of the city’s best-performing grade schools and an anchor for families who want to be in the Southport Corridor zone of hipness…
In the 1880s, the railroad-car magnate George Pullman built a factory and a company town for his employees on what’s now Chicago’s Far South Side. The industrial works have largely disappeared…
If your Twitter feed is anything like mine, it seemed to be in two moods on Tuesday morning. Shortly after the release of the latest monthly data from the S&P/Case Shiller Index, the tweeting started—“Home Prices Continue to Rise: Housing is Now Economic ‘Bright Spot’” was the tone of the national news…
