Top 20 Chicago-Area Train Towns Tallied
A new DePaul study picks the best suburbs for transit commuters, choosing places with walkable downtowns, comfortable stations, and reliable service that “dignify the experience of commuting by train.”
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Rodkin: Too Much Optimism Threatens Housing Market Recovery
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Ryan from Printer’s Row asks if there’s too much optimism about improvements we see in the housing market.
Yet Another Chicago Condo Sale at $6 Million or More
List Price: $7.25 million
Sale Price: $6.55 million
The Property: An extensively restored and modernized nine room co-op condo at 209 E. Lake Shore Drive is the third downtown condo to have sold for $6 million or more since late June.
Ben Hecht’s Hyde Park Home
List Price: $699,000
The Property: Of Ben Hecht’s thousand and one afternoons in Chicago, it’s likely that some were spent at this Queen Anne-style Hyde Park house where he lived in the early 1920s…
At Long Last: An Uptick
There’s a long-overdue ray of hope in the data that Redfin released Thursday: Chicago home prices inched up 0.8 percent from June 2011 to June 2012…
Rodkin on Banks’ Free and Easy Refinancing—What’s the Catch?
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Janet from Rogers Park asks if her mortgage lender’s offer for streamlined refinancing—without an appraisal—is legit.
Buyers Get Bargain on Barrington Hills Estate
List Price: $8.9 million
Sale Price: $7.5 million
The Property: A Barrington Hills estate that encompasses two golf holes, a pond stocked with fish, and more than a thousand trees—not to mention a 30,000-square-foot house—sold Thursday after being on the market just shy of three years…
A Green Home Grows in Bucktown
List Price: $1.79 million
The Property: Some of the greenest buildings are old ones that get reused rather than torn down. That was the philosophy behind this single-family home in Bucktown, which was built into and atop an old two-flat…
Chicago Foreclosures by the Numbers
One in 107 housing units faced foreclosure in early 2012
Deal of the Month: Roscoe Village Four-Bedroom
COMPARISON SHOPPING: At less than a million, it’s a steal for the size