Winnetka House Linked to Village’s Past Sells for $6.5 Million
IN HISTORY’S HOUSE: From first settlers to the Lady Elgin, residence has connections to Winnetka’s past
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Beyond the Secret Garden, in Lincoln Park
List Price: $4.99 million
The Property: The formal, Parisian-styled façade of this home masks its past life as a warehouse, just as the stone wall that extends from it conceals a lovely garden through which a path winds to the house’s broad glass front doors…
Jim Cornelison, Anthem Singer Extraordinaire, Doubles As a Real-Estate Agent
With the Chicago Blackhawks on a six-game road trip, Jim Cornelison, the team’s popular national anthem singer, can grab a little time to focus on his day job: selling real estate…
A Lake View Developer Capitalizes on a Sagging Market
List Price: $2.99 million
Sale Price: $2.7 million
The Property: This new English-accented home in Lake View’s esteemed Blaine School district is the first project sold by a developer who came into the struggling residential real-estate market with a strategy of capitalizing on sagging prices…
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Gold Coast Love Nest Slated for Demolition
The buyers of the red brick house at 25 East Cedar Street where Frank Lloyd Wright lived during one of the most tumultuous chapters of his life will tear it down and build a new residence on the site, according to the real-estate agent for the home’s sellers…
Merry Olde Evanston
List Price: $2.59 million
The Property: From its large turret to its leaded-glass windows and beamed ceilings, this well-kept home from 1893 (with a 1930s addition) contains many attractive Tudor details…
Realtors’ 2011 Forecast: “Ho-Hum”
On Tuesday, the latest data from the Case Shiller Index showed that among the country’s 20 largest cities, Chicago-area home values for November 2010 took the second-largest fall from the year before. Prices were down 7.6 percent from November 2009; only Atlanta, at 7.9 percent, fell further…
Winnetka Manor Sells for 43 Times Its 1952 Purchase Price
List Price: $4.9 million
Sale Price: $4.625 million
The Property: The sellers of this English country home in Winnetka got only 88 percent of the $5.2 million that they had originally asked for the place—but that’s still at least 43 times what their parents had paid for it in 1952…
Bienvenue to the South Loop
List Price: $1,499,900
The Property: This 4,300-square-foot condo on the 19th floor of a century-old building on South Michigan Avenue has expansive views of Grant Park, the skyline, and Lake Michigan—but it is laid out with the convenience of suburban ranch house…
Marketing a Vintage House
Sellers of vintage homes may be at a greater disadvantage now than during a healthy real-estate market. Homebuyers today are getting such great deals on new or recent construction—sometimes at rock-bottom foreclosure prices—that they don’t have to bother with taking on a house that needs some updating just to get a better price…