Two Prairie-style homes about 25 miles apart have undergone significant green upgrades in the past few years. This month, the owners of the Highland Park house, a Frank Lloyd Wright design from 1905, moved in after a year of renovations…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Corey from Chatham asks what his next step should be after his refinance was denied due to a low appraisal.
List Price: $799,900
Sale Price: $799,900
The Property: Its contemporary exterior helps this newly built residence fit into the dynamic mix of old-line homes and dramatic new structures in Ukrainian Village…
List Price: $1.195 million
The Property: The tulips bloomed and faded a little early this year, but at one house in River Forest, they’re in perpetual bloom. The home is the design of Robert Spencer, a Prairie-style architect whose handprints are on one of the city’s prettiest public spaces: the south lobby of the Cultural Center, which is filled with glittering tile mosaics…
Two years ago, an options trader bet big on the super-elite condos at the then-new Elysian Tower. This week his bet paid off, though not quite as handsomely as he had hoped.
That’s Some Farmhouse GLENCOE Perched on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan, this 9,000-square-foot mansion started out, in the 1890s, as a farmhouse. Greatly expanded in the 1920s by Bruce MacLeish—at one time the president and chairman of Carson Pirie Scott—it received a meticulous 21st-century renovation at the hands of Ken and Katherine Weber, who bought … Read more
Much longer than in 2007, which isn’t good news for solvent sellers
A 1929 Loop skyscraper threatened with demolition just over a decade ago has come roaring back in the hands of new owners. It’s now nearing the end of its transition from underused office building to stylish apartment tower…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Mary from Belmont Cragin asks if she should hurry to buy a home before the low home prices go up.
List Price: $2.395 million
Sale Price: $2.15 million
The Property: Howard Gottlieb and his wife, Anne, have sold their 11-room house on a secluded lane in Winnetka…
