List Price: $3.5 million
The Property: As the father of a teenager, I have to admire Milt and Sylvia Clow’s approach to living with adolescents. In the early 1940s, the Lake Forest couple built one house for themselves and a separate house across the driveway for their two teenagers…
Dennis Rodkin visits FOX Chicago News to shed some light on falling home sales, as reported by the National Association of Realtors.
Residential property tax rates rose—in some cases, steeply—in 9 of 12 representative Cook County municipalities over the past decade, according to the Civic Federation. Meanwhile, taxes on commercial and industrial property went the other direction, declining in 11 of the 12 municipalities…
GUT FEELING: Developer overhauls building but retains vintage features
List Price: $1.699 million
Sale Price: $1.600 million
The Property: Klaus Fritsch, who, with Arnie Morton, launched Morton’s The Steakhouse in 1978, has sold the 13-room house he built in 1998.
“My house was for parties,” Fritsch says…
List Price: $1.995 million
The Property: When they set out to build a new home on a corner lot in Lake View eight years ago, the interior designer Tracy Hickman and Chad Munger moved the front door off Barry Avenue and around the corner onto Wolcott Avenue…
PRICES AXED ON TUDORS: Price cuts at North Shore project make 15 condos more affordable
WAITING GAME: Sellers deal with “horrible timing” by renting condos
If you are watching for signs of improvement in the housing market so that you can finally put your home up for sale, you might be shooting yourself in the foot. In May, Zillow.com, an online real-estate company, reported that about 25 percent of Midwest homeowners say they are at least somewhat likely to list their … Read more
A TRIBUTE TO DAVID ADLER: Builder honors architect by paying homage to his Astor Street house
