Last year, Chris Thompson, a 29-year-old IT consultant based in the south suburbs, told his grandfather, Don Clinkert, he was thinking of getting in on the foreclosure-to-rental investment scene. Clinkert said he’d been considering doing the same…
List Price: $1.995 million
Sale Price: $1.775 million
The Property: Previously priced by the builder at $4.8 million, this 11,400-square-foot house in St. Charles may seem awfully big to be considered eco-friendly…
List Price: $375,000
The Property: While working for two top Chicago architectural firms in the 1950s and ’60s, Gertrude Lempp Kerbis made contributions to design elements at O’Hare International Airport and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. Today’s tour is at a building that was a benchmark project for her, one that she has said was among the first places where she worked on her own…
Chicago’s Pilsen and Bronzeville neighborhoods have a lot in common. They are both near the Loop, have lots of public transportation, and, after decades of disinvestment, offer plenty of residential and commercial buildings ripe for renewal…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Connie from Humboldt Park asks if her neighbor—who is putting a similar condo on the market for a higher price—is correct in suggesting that they should raise their asking price.
List Price: $1.595 million
Sale Price: $1.46 million
The Property: Ed Zander, the former chairman and CEO of Motorola, and his wife, Mona, have sold their 67th-floor condo at Water Tower Place…
List Price: $3.45 million
The Property: Today’s property is a handsome brick home, once the coach house of a large estate, built in Lake View in 1913. And today’s property is a slick contemporary clad in metal shingles and horizontal-laid wood siding built in the past six years in Lake View…
Sold: From Courthouse to Condos WHEATON At the historic former DuPage County Courthouse, a duplex condominium with three bedrooms and a dramatic patio in an open-air section of the clock tower has sold for $862,500. That’s 45 percent of the $1.9 million that Focus Development initially wanted for the condo when it began converting the … Read more
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Reilly from Lindenhurst asks how to show off the home’s best feature—a porch—to potential buyers when the area isn’t being used during the winter.
Houses and condos that lenders take over in foreclosure often need a lot of help getting turned around into habitable places again. For one Skokie-based not-for-profit, cleaning those homes provides an opportunity to repair something else at the same time: the lives of its employees…
