Many people hope that real-estate prices have hit bottom, but Richard Ross is willing to wager that home values will turn around within the year—at least in his neighborhood. Ross, who is selling his residence in a 136-year-old structure at 919 West Wisconsin Street, is betting that…
List Price: $1.2 million
Sale Price: $750,000
The Property: For more than 30 years, this mid-century modern house and a much older barn were the home and movie studio of Ted Peshak. For the old Coronet Studios in Glenview, Peshak directed hundreds of educational movies, including What To Do on a Date, School Rules: How They Help Us, and…
List Price: $425,000
The Property: This three-bedroom condo in Hyde Park, with a small gourmet kitchen, lots of wood trim, and a long row of south-facing windows, can be found inside one of the neighborhood’s grandest buildings—which itself sits on private Madison…
The Wheaton townhouse her client wanted to sell needed a bit of dressing up, but the real-estate agent Laura Reedy Stukel thought that putting away some of the sports memorabilia and buying fashionable new bedspreads was only a first step…
List Price: $4.35 million
Sale Price: $3.55 million
The Property: It may look like the successor to some of the great old Gold Coast mansions, but this slender four-story Georgian sits in a much newer neighborhood: the Kinzie Estates section of River North, which until ten years ago was a couple of blocks of defunct warehouses and surface parking lots south of what used to be…
List Price: $2.565 million
The Property: The builder Linda Sanchez put up this 4,800-square-foot, six-bedroom contemporary house in the Southport Corridor as the eco-friendly home she wishes she had built for herself eight years ago. At that time, when she was building…
The foreclosure auctions just keep on coming. For three days next week, Hudson & Marshall, a national auction company, will set up shop at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center and auction off more than 300 Chicago-area homes for the banks that have foreclosed on them…
List Price: $829,000
Sale Price: $752,000
The Property: In September 2006, this 14-room house on a corner lot in Northbrook was sold for $1.9 million. Five months later a lender recorded a lis pendens—a notice that a foreclosure suit would be filed against those buyers. That began a long process that included further actions by the lenders, the eviction of the residents…
List Price: $999,000
The Property: An airy contemporary design by the architect James Nagle gives this 11-room Highland Park house a light and serene attitude. Daylight pours in from all the glass doors and windows, illuminating the open spaces and minimal detailing. From the glassy entryway that feels more like a brief passage between the front and back yards, to the oversized…
Make no payments for six months! It’s a familiar come-on from carpet companies and car dealers. Now one Chicago homebuilder is offering the same deal, but without the hidden interest charges that inflate payments later…
