New green homes are proliferating in the Chicago area, and three of the greenest are finishing up now in Bucktown and Waukegan. The Bucktown house, at 1610 North Honore Street, is an innovative conversion of an old two-flat into a single-family home, complete with a solar array over the garage and many reused materials…
List Price: $5,850,000
Sale Price: $5,158,125
The Property: Fred and Kay Krehbiel last Monday sold the Lawrence Rockwell residence on Lake Shore Drive that they had owned since 1988…
List Price: $1.995 million
The Property: For more than 60 years, this Hyde Park home belonged to Bernard Meltzer and his wife, Jean. Meltzer, who died in 2007, was a University of Chicago law professor who served as a prosecutor in the Nuremberg war trials and helped formulate the United Nations Charter; his wife died in 2008…
List Price: $1.44 million
Sale Price: $1.32 million (approximate)
The Property: Chicago Cubs outfielder Kosuke Fukudome, who on Wednesday was the subject of a rumor that he’d be traded to Boston, has bought a three-bedroom condo in a new Lake Shore Drive high-rise for about $1.32 million…
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…
