In an era when foreclosures are rampant, Illinois’s 8th District may have tapped a foreclosed homeowner to represent it in Congress. Final votes are still being tallied, but on Tuesday, Joe Walsh, who lost his Evanston condo to foreclosure in October 2009, still had a 350-vote lead over the incumbent, Melissa Bean…
Dennis Rodkin stopped by FOX News Chicago to discuss Frank Lloyd Wright’s Coonley House, which was featured in Deal Estate last week.
GETTING THE LOWDOWN: Deals enhance earlier price cuts
TAKING A STAND ON SLOW SALES: Grants, discounts, and freebies packaged to attract buyers “sitting out the market”
A WIDE CHOICE: Developer offers an alternative to high neighborhood prices
List Price: $1.495 million
Sale Price: $1.100 million
The Property: For such a squat and unlovely thing, this 48-year-old house occupies a prime piece of Evanston property with great views and plenty of historical cachet. The lot, a third of an acre, was once part of the six-acre estate of the architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham…
List Price: $3.6 million
The Property: Just south of the Elks Memorial in Lincoln Park is a short block of four attached homes that hardly draw attention to themselves, with their flat brick front that confines frills to the fanlight windows over their street-level front doors…
The Coonley House in Riverside is among the most magnificent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs in Chicago. This week I had the great pleasure of roaming its main rooms and gardens with Dean and Ella Mae Eastman, the couple who renovated a major portion of the property and have put part of it up for sale…
List Price: $779,000
Sale Price: $755,000
The Property: This luxurious 13-room home in the Burr Hill Club neighborhood of St. Charles sold in 2006 for $1.499 million. But in July, the foreclosing lender told John Wright, the Weichert Realtors agent representing the house, to cut the asking price from $819,000 to $779,000…
List Price: $1.485 million
The Property: There aren’t too many families that can outgrow a six-bedroom, 6,500-square-foot house, but Mike and Nancy Cowden managed to do it…
