Pangea Is Reviving Neighborhoods, Building by Building
“We don’t want to fix up just a building,” says Al Goldstein of Pangea Properties. “We’re fixing neighborhoods, bringing them back…”
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Rodkin on Selling When Your Mortgage is Underwater
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Larry asks for advice on selling his home even though his mortgage is underwater.
The Kenwood Home That Houses the ‘Boss’
List Price: $1.65 million
Sale Price: $1.525 million
The Property: Because trees obscure most of its front, you can’t see much of the façade of this Kenwood Victorian…
In Bucktown, A Room with a View of a Room with a View
List Price: $2.499 million
The Property: The view from the rooftop deck of this house takes in much of what makes Bucktown so great: a mix of vintage and contemporary homes, landmark buildings, church spires, and a blanket of trees. What’s more, the vista includes the lakefront and downtown skylines—and there’s also another interesting perspective inside…
Two Prairie Homes Go Green—and One Is for Sale
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…
Rodkin on Refinancing after a Low Appraisal
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.
New is News in Ukrainian Village
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…
Tiptoe Through the Tulips in River Forest
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…
A Big Breakup at the Elysian
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.
Market Watch: A Mansion Farmhouse in Glencoe, Plus Homes in Lincoln Park and Evanston
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