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Wicker Park’s Troubled Twins
List Price (house on the right in photo): $990,000
Sale Price: $959,000
The Property: These mirror-image twins in Wicker Park share more than their contemporary brick-and-glass style…
New Lease on Life for Homebuyers
Homeowners who want to move can lease their old houses through a smart new rental plan
Sale Picks Up Steam at Park Ridge Townhomes
THE COOLEST CUT: After developer slashes prices, buyers seek out stalled project
Morgan Stanley Exec Sells Shaw Mansion
HIS TIME EXPIRED: The investment banker who oversaw the parking-meter deal makes a profit on his Howard Van Doren Shaw-designed home
A Pritzker Picks Up Three Lincoln Park Properties
Scion of moneyed clan acquires three select North Side properties
In Lake Forest, an Old Estate Garage Gets a Lift
List Price: $2.8 million
The Property: In the late 1930s, the architect David Adler designed a pair of servants’ cottages that flanked the back entrance to the Lake Forest estate of Lola Armour. He used nearly as much detail on the cottages as he had on the huge main house, nearly a quarter of a mile away…
Latinos Getting Hit Two Ways by Foreclosures
Chicago’s Latino Policy Forum has discerned a painful irony: Latino neighborhoods and suburbs have a heavy concentration of both over-crowded housing units and empty foreclosures. “We have these two phenomena happening concurrently,” said Juliana Gonzalez-Crussi, the forum’s policy and housing analyst, when we talked on Monday…
Rodkin on Telltale Signs That a Real Estate Market Has Hit Bottom
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Beth from Streeterville asks what clues signal that the real estate market in her town or neighborhood has hit bottom.
After Five Years, Final Condo Sells at River North Building
List Price: $1.199 million
Sale Price: $1.115 million
The Property: On February 9, the last of 20 condos at 30 West Erie was sold, more than five years after construction and sales began…