Sellers of homes typically tout a location’s best qualities: its excellent schools, quaint shopping areas, or easy access to major commuting routes. But the owner of one southern Wisconsin property opted to extol a very unusual advantage of his location—buy there and you can get away from the corrupt politicians of Illinois…
List Price: $2,800,000
Sale Price: $3,216,098
The Property: Situated south of the Chicago River and west of Lake Shore Drive, downtown’s Lakeshore East is best known as a neighborhood of dramatic new high-rise towers, including Aqua and 340 on the Park. But in its southeast corner…
GOLD COAST FROM $2,871,000 TO $3,495,900 There are almost no windows on the north wall of the condos at 50 East Chestnut—but the glassy south-facing expanse that stretches across the full 80-foot width of each condo more than compensates. “Everyone here gets 270-degree views,” says Ellen Nemirow, the agent representing the building for Jameson, the real-estate … Read more
EARLY BUYERS GET THE DEAL: Developer sweetens its previous price cuts with a $3,000 discount for each of the first three sales
OF THE ECO ERA: Seemingly traditional homes boast timely green features
OUTER LIMITS: Professor looks to distant suburbs as site for potential walkaways
PROTOTYPE PREFIGURED PENN. PLAN: Predating Fallingwater by three decades, this 101-year-old house evokes famed Wright residence
LINCOLN PARK LIST PRICE: $2,195,000 SALE PRICE: $2,012,500 Theo de Kool, until late last year the chief financial officer at Sara Lee, has sold his 19th-century Lincoln Park row house for $2,012,500. He and his wife, Nanette Wartenbergh, paid $2.325 million for the 13-room home in 2007—which means the couple took a 13 percent loss on the recent sale. … Read more
List Price: $950,000
The Property: When it was 99 years old, this Wilmette home grew from a modest two-bedroom cottage into a four-bedroom Victorian with fanciful Carpenter Gothic trim. Built in 1893 in what is now a highly desirable eastern
A 125-year-old brick and sandstone Queen Anne–style mansion at 28th Street and Prairie Avenue is on the market for the first time ever. As you will see in the video, the 24-room house—which withstood white flight, as well as the construction (and subsequent demolition) of a public…
