A Highland Fling in Wheaton
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…
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Chicago’s Midrange Homeowners Taking the Hardest Hits
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…
Rodkin on Pricing a Home with No Comparable Data
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.
Old Town Stunner Sells After Three 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…
A Classic Co-op with Lincoln Park Amenities Close By
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…
Hard-Hit Homeowners Getting More Aid from Illinois
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…
Rodkin on Where to Buy a Single-Family Home—Hyde Park or Bridgeport?
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.
Bank Eats Over $1 Million on Naperville Short Sale
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…
A Spruced-Up Sears Home in Rogers Park
List Price: $479,000
The Property: There’s a quiet block of classic houses and apartment buildings in Rogers Park where you can tell what a rooted part of the neighborhood it is just by looking at all the well-designed front gardens—several of which still look nice in late fall…
Winnetka’s Maverick House Back on the Market
One of the quirkiest houses on the North Shore—with light fixtures carved from wooden salad bowls, a Western-themed mural above the living room, and a distinctly offbeat fence—came back on the market this month, five years after it went up for sale for the first time since it was built more than 90 years ago…