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
NEW NO MORE: Home’s outmoded décor may have led to loss on recent sale
When the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) started moving residents out of two South Side developments nine years ago, Susan Popkin, a public-housing expert at the Urban Institute, worried that it wouldn’t turn out well for the folks who got relocated. “I had a lot of concerns that these people would not manage,” she says, “that it was really going to [harm] them.” But last week, Popkin and some colleagues…
The Properties: Three suburban houses have each sold for exactly $1 million in the month since I reported what $1 million buys in the city. Let’s take a look at what suburban homebuyers are getting for that benchmark price right now…
List Price: $1.69 million
The Property: The rustic style of the exterior and main interior rooms of this Wheaton home are a tribute to the Vermont skiing club where Ed Morgan, who built the house with his wife, Sally, skied back in the 1950s…
On Monday, Zillow, the online realty information service, released its report on changes in real-estate values during the second quarter of 2010. It showed that nationwide, home values were down 0.6 percent from the prior quarter and 3.2 percent from the year before. The Chicago area did better than the national average on one measure: prices were up here by 1.6 percent from the winter quarter…
