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Report: Chicago Harder Hit by Housing Collapse

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The most recent Case-Shiller Home Price Index, which tracks residential real estate in the country’s major metropolitan areas, shows that, by one measure, the housing collapse hit Chicago harder than many other cities. Over the past four years (from November 2006 to November 2010, the latest date for which information was available), prices here dropped … Read more

A Good Deal on a Car Dealer’s Winnetka House

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List Price: $1 million
Sale Price: $900,000
The Property: In 2006, federal marshals seized this 7,400-square-foot, five-bedroom Winnetka house after its owner was charged with selling scores of luxury cars to Chicago gang members for cash as a way of helping them launder millions of dollars in drug profits…

Loft Takes Its Cue from the West Loop

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List Price: $1.15 million
The Property: Cue-wielding pool players get some of the best views in this 4,200-square-foot loft in an old West Loop industrial building. Look out one set of tall windows and they get a straight shot of the Sears Tower; look out the other and they see more old industrial buildings and a clock tower…

Two Eco-Friendly Chicago Renovations

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Analysts are saying that home remodeling should pick up this year, and with rising energy prices a constant concern, it’s smart to factor resource savings into any rehab. At two Chicago homes, green was the key in nearly all aspects of their recent renovations…

A Realistic Deal in Naperville

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List Price: $825,000
Sale Price: $775,000
The Property: Three of the strikes against this 13-room home in a high-end Naperville subdivision are hard to hide: the empty lot on either side of the house and the third vacant lot behind this property’s nicely landscaped quarter-acre…

Going Green in Holstein Park

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List Price: $1.299 million
The Property: With its conservative brick and limestone façade, this house—in one of my favorite neighborhoods, the Holstein Park section of northwest Bucktown—doesn’t try to dominate its older neighbors…