Earlier this month, Cook County rolled out a one-stop website that pulls together information on a property’s taxes, ownership, and assessment—each of which came from a different website in the past…
List Price: $4.475 million
Sale Price: $4.025 million
The Property: A four-story, six-bedroom River North house that a couple built for the fun of it in 2008 sold on April 2 for the highest price paid in the neighborhood since June 2007…
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The real-estate market may be in the doldrums, but it’s the best time in years to improve your home. Here are your smartest strategies, no matter when you plan to sell
How to make your home more energy efficient, refresh instead of remodel, and ratchet up the curb appeal
How to deal with the mechanicals and roof; splurge a little on your kitchen and bathrooms; and create more living space in your attic, basement, or backyard.
How to plan for your needs as you age, make large-scale improvements in energy efficiency, and reconfigure spaces to accommodate multiple generations
List Price: $3.3 million
The Property: In Chicago’s toddlin’ times, an era when train travel was the height of elegance, the Ambassador East and Ambassador West hotels were regular stops for movie stars, politicians, and society’s elite. Even Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 cross-country classic, North by Northwest, included a stop at the Ambassador East…
A new federal report has provided yet another sign that Chicago’s housing market is in the slow lane on the road to recovery. The report, issued last week with the government’s monthly housing scorecard, noted that, during the past year, the area saw a 1.5 percent increase in the number of homes at risk of foreclosure, rising from 125,400 homes in January 2011 to 127,300 homes in January 2012…
