List Price: $2,500,000 Sale Price: $2,299,999 The Property: A 3,600-square-foot condo on the 80th floor of the 87-story Aqua is the latest sale over $2 million in the already-iconic tower. It is only the third condo sold in the building whose reported sale price exceeded $2 million—but there almost certainly are more. Two other Aqua … Read more
List Price: $859,900
The Property: Built in 1929 as a shingle-sided cottage and expanded in 1993, this house stands on a quiet street in western Winnetka with soccer fields, a bike path, and a forest preserve close at hand. The original parts of the house are warm and inviting, with a cozy window seat in the living room, a slate-floored sun room, and other timeless touches…
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”
