The Tinley Park mansion that the former NBA star Antoine Walker lost in foreclosure when he declared bankruptcy in 2010 was left in sorry condition. Water stood waist-deep in the basement, murky goo filled the indoor pool, and at least 32 light fixtures were gone. But Jim McClelland Jr. and Eric Workman saw an opportunity…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Alex from the Northwest suburbs asks if the costs of building a new home are comparable to buying a five-year-old home.
List Price: $1.175 million
Sale Price: $1.2 million
The Property: In 2010, this quirky house built on three lots in Uptown in 1978 was on the verge of getting the interior updating it badly needed…
INSIDER’S GUIDE: A beloved music venue’s expansion is one reason to revisit this North Side neighborhood. We’ve got 13 more
List Price: $1,574,900
The Property: Just off the thriving Armitage Avenue shopping strip, on a Lincoln Park street filled with homes from different eras, stands a house that watched them all arrive. Built in 1861 as the farmhouse for a truck farm that delivered its produce into Chicago, the house still has several of its original elements…
A little over three years after they downsized from a house in Elmhurst to a condo in Itasca, Phil and Connie Mangano are getting ready to move to another new condo—without spending a dollar. With just seven of 70 condos sold at Two Itasca Place, its developer, Don Morris, is converting the building into apartments and moving the Manganos and other buyers there into nearly identical condos next door at One Itasca Place…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Tom from the West Loop asks why a seller would ignore a reasonable offer from a potential homebuyer.
In the past month, four multimillion-dollar homes on the North Shore lakefront have been sold—more than were sold in any single month in 2011. The quartet ranged in price from $2.325 million to $7.5 million, and they all shared views out over Lake Michigan…
List Price: $2.495 million
The Property: During its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company made Chicago the capital of architectural ornamentation. The company’s officers weren’t shy about using their products on their homes on Terra Cotta Row, a cluster of four homes on the 1000 block of West Oakdale in Lake View…
After being on sale informally for a couple of weeks, a treasured Frank Lloyd Wright design in Hyde Park, the Isidore H. Heller House, officially hits the market today. Completed in 1897, the residence signaled Wright’s turn away from the richly ornamented style of his boss, Louis Sullivan…
