Down (20 Percent) by the Riverside
List Price: $899,000
Sale Price: $795,000
The Property: In December 2003, fresh off an extensive restoration, this house in a picturesque section of Riverside sold for $1 million…
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From Party Pad to Family Place, in Bucktown
List Price: $1.999 million
The Property: Bucktown has matured nicely over the past decade, as has this neighborhood house—though en route from party pad to high-end family home, it took a detour into foreclosure…
A Guide to Chinatown: Where to Eat, Shop, and Play
Celebrate the new year all over again on the South Side
Are Chicago Sellers Just Tired of Losing?
The year-end real-estate data has been rolling in for the past week or so, and much of it is encouraging. But there’s something that bugs me—and, I believe, a lot of sellers or potential sellers…
A Guide to Andersonville: Where to Eat, Shop, and Play
INSIDER’S GUIDE: Cozy up to this homey North Side neighborhood
Rodkin on Whether We’re Out of the Danger Zone
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Stefan from the West Loop asks if the Chicago housing market is out of the woods finally.
Nate Berkus’s Slow-to-Sell Condo Suddenly Sells Fast
List Price: $1.89 million
Sale Price: $1.6 million
The Property: An Astor Street condominium that the interior designer and TV host Nate Berkus first put on the market in March 2011 was sold last Wednesday—just three days after the listing agent marked it as having a contract pending…
In Wrightwood, Welcome to the 1990s
List Price: $777,000
The Property: This house, in a part of Chicago called Wrightwood Neighbors, is a classic type of urban residence in its resemblance to a milk carton: tall and slender, with a peaked roof. And in this case, some of the contents are beyond their expiration date…
Rodkin on the New Rules from the CFPB
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, many readers are asking about the possible changes we should expect when buying a home next year following the new rules recently instituted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
First-Time Landlords Provide a Lesson for Other Would-Be Investors
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…