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…
List Price: $749,000
The Property: At the Century of Progress World’s Fair held on Chicago’s lakefront from 1933 to 1934, the Federal Housing Administration exhibited a model for a house it hoped to see spring up all over the country. It’s believed that this River Forest residence is that house, rebuilt on a corner lot after the fair…
List Price: $3.265 million
The Property: Everybody likes to bring home souvenirs of their travels. From a trip to Scotland, you might bring back a kilt (like the one I’m wearing in today’s video) or an entire house…
When Zillow announced last week that Chicago is the country’s number one market for homebuyers, I snarkily replied on Twitter that, by the same token, Chicago is the number one place where sellers are taking it in the shorts. Two reports out that same week backed me up…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Nicole from Burr Ridge asks for advice on how to determine the price of their home in a neighborhood where nothing has traded in several years.
List Price: $1.08 million
Sale Price: $975,000
The Property: From the street, this house, built in 1886 in Old Town, is unassuming. It’s no visual competition for its neighbors on the block, including the zany and eccentric Carl Street Studios or the suave riff on Art Deco at Theophil Studios…
List Price: $1.45 million
The Property: The best of Lincoln Park comes together along Fullerton Parkway east of Clark Street, with the beautiful park, the lakefront, the zoo, the Caldwell Lily Pool, and the Notebaert Nature Museum all close at hand…
The web of assistance for struggling Illinois homeowners got a little stronger after a pair of announcements from the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) last week…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Donna from Ravenswood asks which South Side neighborhood she should choose to buy a single-family home in the $300,000 to $350,000 range.
List Price: $1.199 million
Sale Price: $1.05 million
The Property: This 16-room house on the far western edge of Naperville sold in November for $1.05 million. That’s 38 percent of what it cost to build…
