List Price: $5.995 million
The Property: Situated on a lakefront cul-de-sac in Glencoe, this newly built mansion with an elaborate façade has an entry hall containing a free-standing marble staircase lined with florid wrought iron…
Shopping for a home with a green roof, solar water heater, low-water landscaping, or other eco-features got a lot easier. Also, On Tuesday, January 5th, Walter Jacobson, closed on the $1.975-million sale of a Lincoln Park house that he had owned twice.
List Price: $2,695,000
Sale Price: $2,037,750
The Property: This 12-room mansion on two and a half acres in Lake Forest sold at foreclosure on December 22nd. Built in 1996 on a cul-de-sac of seven homes carved out of an old Green Bay Road estate, the house mimics English country styles with its tall brick peaks and ornamented limestone bay. Photos that accompanied the listing show…
It’s been a quandary most of the year: real-estate prices are tantalizing now, but getting a mortgage is rough. The Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) has a little-known program that makes borrowing easier for state residents; it offers interest rates lower than the prevailing norm for conventional loans, accepts borrowers with credit scores lower than most big lenders now require…
List Price: $889,000
Sale Price: $890,000
The Property: Stacey Marks-Bronner has sold the 15-room Oak Park house she had owned for eight years. A longtime Chicago media executive, Marks-Bronner was named station manager at New England Cable News in November.
List Price: $1.525 million
The Property: From its jaunty Z-shaped façade to its show-stopping red and chrome kitchen, this exuberant four-bedroom Glenview house doesn’t hold back. It even comes with a built-in exclamation point—made of wood inlay and situated on the master bedroom floor.
Just a few years ago, new subdivisions were marching west from St. Charles through Campton Hills toward Lily Lake, a tiny community that lies almost at the center of Kane County. Pairing that movement with a burgeoning interest in building methods that have a lighter impact on the land, a group of developers devised a…
List Price: $3,595,000
Sale Price: $3,000,000
The Property: Two unnamed grandparents have bought the landmark 134-year-old Cornelius Field House in Highland Park. “The buyers’ plans are to appreciate everything about it and keep it all together,” says Blanche Romey Egan, who handled the sale of the house for the estate of Martha Ferguson MacLeod.“They are going to build a…
The writer and lawyer Scott Turow sold his lakefront mansion in Glencoe for $5 million on December 17th; he paid $4.79 million for the place when he bought it in 2001. Deal Estate broke the news last month that the house, priced at $5.9 million, was under contract. The buyers are not yet identified in public records.
List Price: $1.775 million
The Property: Some people bring home pictures of picturesque old homes they admired while traveling. Ted and Ellen Roberts of St. Charles went one better: they built a replica of the governor’s mansion in Richmond, Virginia, a Federal-style home that they happened upon on when visiting the onetime Confederate capital in the early 1990s.
