Rodkin on Composite Versus Wood Fences
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Gary from Chicago asks whether a composite fence or a wood fence would increase the value of his home.
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Another New Mansion Coming to Burling Street
List Price: $3.66 million Sale Price: $3.66 million The Property: A new mansion will soon start going up on the 1900 block of Burling Street, midway between the house with the giant blue sculpture and the so-called Parrillo Palace. On March 19, BGD&C, a builder of high-end homes, sold a lot that is 60 feet … Read more
Bucktown’s Sunlight Store
List Price: $935,000
The Property: On a quintessential Bucktown corner, several onetime storefronts have been converted into residences over the years. Among them is a one-story brick building that may have once been a furniture store and warehouse…
Twelve Communities That Might Be on the Rebound
Digging into the data from which we built the home-values charts in the April issue of Chicago, I’ve found a dozen city neighborhoods or suburbs showing signs that they’ve hit bottom and may be on the way back up…
Rodkin on What to Do with a Deceased Relative’s Reverse Mortgage Home
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Art from Evanston asks what one should do with a deceased relative’s home with a reverse mortgage.
Setting it Wright in Glencoe
List Price: $550,000
Sale Price: $500,000
The Property: Of the five rental homes in Glencoe that Frank Lloyd Wright built for his attorney, Sherman Booth, the Charles R. Perry House is the only one with a pagoda flourish on the façade, a design element inspired by the architect’s time in Japan…
Ryno Selling in Streeterville; Chico Sells in Little Italy
Cubs great Ryne Sandberg and his wife, Margaret, put their three-bedroom Streeterville co-op on the market Wednesday, asking $650,000. The home has 2,500 square feet of space in a classic brick-and-limestone 1920s building…
A Touch of Europe in South Barrington
List Price: $5.5 million
The Property: The homebuilder Joe Elias and his company, Vintage Elegant Family Estates, pride themselves on bringing an old-world timelessness to their projects. At Hidden Lakes, a gated subdivision of very large homes in South Barrington, Elias took it up several notches, layering on the European-inspired details when creating this 13,000-square-foot home for his family…
Kenilworth: The Champ of Five-Year Home Values
For the April issue of Chicago, which hits newsstands this week, we created charts that show how home values are holding up in the city’s neighborhoods and suburbs. For the most part, they’re looking wan, at best—except for Kenilworth…