List Price: $1,995,000
Sale Price: $1,595,000
The Property: The rear of this 12-room house looks across a swimming pool and enormous back lawn toward a small lake (part of Ginger Creek) and, beyond that, to homes on the other side of the water. Approximately 35 years old, this house has a soaring peaked ceiling in the main living rooms, four bedrooms, and a...
List Price: $1,995,000
Sale Price: $1,595,000
The Property: The rear of this 12-room house looks across a swimming pool and enormous back lawn toward a small lake (part of Ginger Creek) and, beyond that, to homes on the other side of the water. Approximately 35 years old, this house has a soaring peaked ceiling in the main living rooms, four bedrooms, and a...
List Price: $1,995,000
Sale Price: $1,595,000
The Property: The rear of this 12-room house looks across a swimming pool and enormous back lawn toward a small lake (part of Ginger Creek) and, beyond that, to homes on the other side of the water. Approximately 35 years old, this house has a soaring peaked ceiling in the main living rooms, four bedrooms, and a...
List Price: $1,995,000
Sale Price: $1,595,000
The Property: The rear of this 12-room house looks across a swimming pool and enormous back lawn toward a small lake (part of Ginger Creek) and, beyond that, to homes on the other side of the water. Approximately 35 years old, this house has a soaring peaked ceiling in the main living rooms, four bedrooms, and a…
List Price: $1,099,000
The Property: With its mix of crisp, orderly limestone on the lower walls and rusticated stucco and half timbers above, this mansion, built in 1927, isn’t sure whether it’s French or English. But instead of feeling confused, the eclectic exterior makes an apt container for what’s inside: a 13-room collection of materials and craftwork from…
Last week an apartment developer announced that it is starting construction on a 21-story River North building whose site, architectural plans, and name—Parc Huron—it bought from the condo developer Lennar, which cancelled the project eight months ago. But that doesn’t mean the project will change all that much. “It had already been through…
A giant Ziploc is but one proposed protection against the flooding that plagues Farnsworth House, the glorious landmark by Mies. But are floods yet another natural disaster we just can’t outwit?
List Price: $1,299,000
Sale Price: $820,000
The Property: The builder who replaced an older home with this house did not complete it before his lender ended up selling it in November—for less than the builder had paid to buy the lot in 2005. The new owners are not only completing construction, but they are re-doing some of what…
Inventory of the region’s high-end homes eclipses their rate of sale
Homebuilders’ display house included $300,000 in add-ons
List Price: $675,000
The Property: Perched beneath towering oak trees atop a steep ridge, this Italianate house on an enormous parcel of land is within the city limits but feels more like something you would find in a small country town—maybe Galena, where…
While there is pressure on President-elect Barack Obama to help resuscitate the nation’s moribund real-estate scene, he has already helped at least one very localized segment of the Chicago market: Kenwood. Obama’s historic election has drawn worldwide attention to his….
List Price: $6.255 million
Sale Price: $5.55 million
The Property: Set apart from its Lake Forest neighbors by a private wooden bridge, this 19-room mansion sits on two and a half acres alongside a sylvan ravine. The house sold in November after its owners, Joseph and Sarah Tripodi, dropped their asking price by ten percent as part of Coldwell Banker’s nationwide sales-stimulus…
