List Price: $1.325 million
Sale Price: $1.225 million
The Property: Jim Karas, the Chicago-based fitness trainer to the stars as well as the author of three top-selling fitness books, will close on his purchase of a Gold Coast condo later this month.
After listening to the concerns of locals, developer reacted like a good neighbor
NORTH CENTER FROM $370,000 TO $399,000 Despite the slowdown in new construction, Jim Jaeger, a veteran developer in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood, intends to embark on his second environmentally friendly building this spring. Inspired by the success of Eco North, his 16-unit project at 1820-1842 West Irving Park Road, Jaeger now plans to build an identical … Read more
Remodeling projects don’t pay off as well at resale time as they used to, according to a recent report by the National Association of Realtors and Hanley Wood, a media company geared toward the construction industry. What’s more, most Chicago projects reap a smaller payback than the national average. “You have a lot of competition … Read more
Homes brought back to their old glory “from the ground up”
FULTON MARKET FROM $1.25 million TO $1.3 million Plan A didn’t quite work out for his project in the 800 block of West Fulton Market, so now the developer John Madonis is pursuing plans B and C. Plan A—which Madonis carried over in 2007 from an earlier project at Lake and Morgan streets—was to erect a … Read more
NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE LIST PRICE: $4.4 million SALE PRICE: $4.1 million The October sale of a condominium in the Park Tower eclipsed any prices in that building going back two years, before the onset of the real-estate decline. “We were only on the market for three and a half months, which is good [these days], and we got 93.7 … Read more
List Price: $1.95 million
The Property: A cocktail of genres, this house has a harsh 1970s exterior, an interior rich in Victorian ornamentation, and an atrium that could have been borrowed from a Spanish-style home. And while distinctly urban, the place has a big yard worthy of a residence in the suburbs.
The new 50-story apartment building opening tomorrow at 215 West Washington Street is only the second rental residential high-rise built in the Loop. The first, 200 North Dearborn, was completed in 1989 and later…
List Price: N/A
Sale Price: $6,884,500
The Property: James J. McNulty, the former CEO of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, has bought the entire 37th floor of the Elysian, the new 60-story hotel-and-condos tower, designed by Lucien Lagrange, at 11 East Walton Street. This is the highest…
