List Price: $810,000
The Property: A traditonal-looking neighborhood is springing up next door to Libertyville’s charming downtown. SchoolStreet, a New Urbanist development on the site of a failed townhouse project, has been selling well, and its promised front porches are becoming more numerous…
Lockerbie Lane is a residential cul-de-sac west of the Edens Expressway in Wilmette. In July, an Indiana hotel operator announced plans to build a 130-room Residence Inn by Marriott on a vacant parcel of land in a nearby commercial area, next to an existing three-story building. “It just changes everything about our neighborhood,” laments Carol Stutz, a 20-year Lockerbie Lane resident. “It’s not what is best for our quality of life and property values…”
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Marie from the Southwest Side asks if it’s a bad idea to put a house on the market during the winter.
List Price: $5.995 million
Sale Price: $4.5 million
The Property: This 17-room home in Hinsdale has an indoor pool, eight bedrooms and, according to the listing sheet, “four truly epic levels”—which may be the selling agent’s way of saying that the basement pub is as lavish as the hunt room–styled family room…
List Price: $779,000
The Property: Sixty years ago, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe changed the way Chicagoans—and people around the world—lived with his paired apartment towers at 860-880 Lake Shore Drive. Although they came after his Promontory Apartments in Hyde Park, their steel-and-glass muscularity made them the icons…
With its farmhouse shape, Tony and Janet Lewandowski’s nearly finished new home in La Grange fits well among the traditionally styled homes on the block. But it differs from the old-timers in a significant way: designed to be miserly with natural resources, the house aims to be the first in La Grange to get LEED certification…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Jessica from Streeterville asks for a forecast of the 2012 Real Estate Market.
List Price: $1,699,500
Sale Price: $1,550,000
The Property: A now-retired executive who joined the banking superstar Jamie Dimon in Chicago has now followed his old boss’s lead in another way: selling his home at about half what he’d been asking for it…
List Price: $2.68 million
The Property: Tom Ciaglia is a veteran builder in Barrington Hills, and for the most part, he says, buildable lots in that northwest suburb have either rolling hills or dense woods. But several years ago, Ciaglia, whose company is Homes by Pinnacle, purchased a parcel that had both…
Chicagoans long ago got used to being snubbed by New York, but one thing that’s hard for New York to overlook is our enviable array of skyscrapers. In addition to having two of the world’s 15 tallest buildings, Chicago has five buildings over 1,000 feet tall—one more than New York. What’s more, three of the world’s 20 tallest buildings completed in 2009 were residential towers in Chicago…
