List Price: $2.9 million
Sale Price: $3 million
The Property: After a big markdown designed to get this 16-room mansion on the Wilmette lakefront sold, the highest bidder got it for $3 million on October 30…
List Price: $1,999,000
The Property: No matter what the temperature is outside, it’s always the fifties inside this Glencoe home. Built in 1955, the house has one entire side of glass, facing the steep ravine at the edge of the lot…
A little over a year ago, almost ten percent of the 2,100 public-housing units owned by the Housing Authority of Cook County had stood empty for two years or more. That meant the county was failing to house about 200 needy households, even though it had spaces for them. But after an aggressive round of rehab—and a shakeup of the agency—those 200 units have been put back in use…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Brittani from Romeoville asks for tips on selling her home quickly.
List Price: $1.495 million
Sale Price: $1.2 million
The Property: Behind the crazy glass, steel, and brick geometry of this Edgewater townhouse lies a distinctive space: a 10-room home from which residents can walk right out onto the northernmost tip of Lincoln Park and the park’s farthest-north beach Kathy Osterman Beach…
List Price: $5.7 million
The Property: Over the past ten years, this perfectly nice vintage home in Old Town has bloomed. Opened up with the addition of a second lot next door, the house, thanks to its present seller, Kemery Bloom, has come to life, inside and out…
Soon after T. J. Rubin got into the apartment leasing business in late 2008, the market had some news for him: He was mostly going to be in the condo leasing business instead…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Annette from Lincolnwood asks which home appraisal is more accurate: The appraisal she and her husband got initially as part of their divorce, or the much lower one paid for by her husband.
Home sales, news, and trends
List Price: $4.5 million
Sale Price: $4.5 million
The Property: When it sold October 11, this home on the bluff above Lake Michigan in Glencoe was the second on its block to go for over $4 million in the past few months…
