List Price: $7.349 million
Sale Price: $5.1 million
The Property: A lakefront house in Highland Park was sold on December 5 for $5.1 million. That’s just 58 percent of the $8.7 million that the seller, Maryclaire Collins, was asking for the home when she first listed it in the fall of 2010…
List Price: $1.75 million
The Property: Outside the windows of this 46th-floor condo at Water Tower Place lie two of Chicago’s great beauties: its architecture and its shoreline. They are a good complement to the beauty that resides inside the condo—as well as to the Hollywood beauty that was its most recent resident…
SCENES FROM A MALL: A 4,000-square-foot condo at Chicago Place sells for 29 percent off its purchase price
ROUGH AND READY: One flight apart, two choices for buyers
LOVE ME (LEGAL) TENDER: 18 condos at 200 North Dearborn close in one month to all-cash buyers
Different owners come up short on sale of Prairie Avenue row house
GOING FOR BAROQUE: 22 rooms, 44 percent off its original asking price
In 1948, Kenneth Laurent, a young man from Rockford who had lost the use of both his legs during his World War II service, wrote to Frank Lloyd Wright to ask if the architect would design a home for him and his bride, Phyllis. The couple had $15,000 to spend from federal and state grants for paralyzed veterans. By 1952, when their new home was completed, they had spent about $31,000 to build the two-bedroom house…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Sandra from the South Loop asks if we are on the verge of an apartment bubble similar to the condo bubble.
List Price: $2.295 million
Sale Price: $2.1 million
The Property: Overlooking Lake Michigan from atop a wooded bluff, this Lake Forest home combines architectural elements from the late-19th and mid-20th centuries…
