List Price: $4.954 million
The Property: On an elite wooded street in east Northbrook stands a substantial house with exterior details that you might find on some historical country homes in England…
INSIDER’S GUIDE: New spots like the Emporium Arcade Bar and the Purple Cow preserve the neighborhood’s trendy rep
At the base of Lincoln Park 2550, a posh condo tower nearing completion at Lakeview Avenue and St. James Place, a modest set of classical columns flanks the project’s southeast corner…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Todd from Naperville asks about doing a refinance to “claw back” the equity in a home.
The Properties: The façades of two recently sold new houses in the city feature big, playful visual puns—and each of them is part of a different builder’s long-range game plan…
List Price: $850,000
The Property: From first sight, it’s obvious that this Normandy-style home has a lot of history in Elmhurst. Built in 1930 as part of a subdivision…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Larry, a commercial real estate executive, asks if the number of new businesses—restaurants, coffee shops, and more—in Logan Square would affect how quickly the neighborhood recovers from the recession.
After a few months of declines, sales of Chicago-area homes that were either foreclosed or sold for less than the value of the mortgage increased in both July and August.
List Price: $1.2 million
Sale Price: $1.07 million
The Property: Kathy Posner, the longtime Chicago PR exec and civic volunteer, sold her 2,900-square-foot North Michigan Avenue condo for $1.07 million…
List Price: $975,000
The Property: One section of River North could be called the town that Montgomery Ward built. Over several decades, the now-defunct retailer built…
