Lake View's House of Two Hawks
List Price: $1.495 million
Sale Price: $1.4 million
The Property: Since it was built in 2004, this ten-room house in Lake View has been home to two different short-time members of the Chicago Blackhawks…
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Expectant Lemont Couple Make Room at the Inn, in Lemont
List Price: $750,000
The Property: Dating to the 1850s or 1860s, this Victorian delicacy was recently fitted out as a bed and breakfast. But once its owners, Cyndi and Paul Busse, learned they were expecting a baby, they opted instead to put the place on the market as a private home, says their agent, Sharon Sodikoff…
Most Expensive Homes in Chicago and the Suburbs in 2010
TOWER POWER: The new Elysian snared three of the top spots on this year’s list of the area’s priciest homes
Age Limit and Prices Drop at Wilmette’s Mallinckrodt in the Park
At Wilmette’s Mallinckrodt in the Park, a seniors-only development housed in the former Mallinckrodt College, 26 of the 81 units remain unsold five years after the conversion. But recent action by the village could help animate sales…
An Early Wright Revamp in Oak Park
List Price: $1.195 million
Sale Price: $1.050 million
The Property: Renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright early in his career, this 17-room Oak Park house had been on and off the market for more than two years before finally selling at about 61 percent of its original asking price…
True to Form in Irving Park
List Price: $859,700
The Property: In 1999, when Charlie and Natalie Walsh bought this big brick house in Chicago’s Irving Park neighborhood, “almost nothing had been done to it since the 1950s,” Natalie says. Since buying the place, the Walshes have extensively remodeled and updated the house, always trying to stay true to its original design…
Selling Time Increases Significantly in Many Communities
Comparing Chicago’s annual real-estate charts from 2006 to the ones that appeared in the October 2010 issue of the magazine, I found that the average length of time that a house waits on the market has more than doubled in 29 Chicago neighborhoods and 129 suburbs. The two places where market time has lengthened the most over those four years are Montclare on Chicago’s Northwest Side and Lake Forest on the North Shore…
Real Estate 2010: House Prices in Chicago and the Suburbs
DÉJÀ VU: Declining prices have sent home values back to where they were eight years ago. So what’s your house worth now? Chicago magazine’s annual real-estate charts track home prices in nearly 300 neighborhoods and towns
Real Estate 2010: Chicago Neighborhoods
Sortable chart of prices of Chicago homes
Real Estate 2010: Suburbs
Sortable chart of prices of homes in the suburbs