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List Price: $1,595,000
Sale Price: $1,485,000
The Property: Never mind the house pictured here. It’s gone, demolished on March 5th, two days after the Winnetka-based Heritage Luxury Builders closed on its purchase of the site. The lot is first-rate: just under half an acre in east Winnetka, surrounded by impressive homes—both old and new—and with lakefront parks one and three blocks away…
List Price: $2,599,000
The Property: A winding drive through the woods leads to this new 17-room house, designed in the style of a French country manor by the builder, Stephen Kozer, and his wife, Patty Kozer, an interior designer. The home’s well-chosen details start on the exterior, where carefully placed pieces of limestone give depth to the façade, especially in winter when snow and ice highlight the many crannies and ledges. A customized set of wrought-iron insets on the doors carry through to the wrought-iron railings of the main interior staircase.
Together, the many empty, unsold builder houses sprinkled around Chicago and the suburbs constitute a kind of scattered-site ghost town. But in the past few weeks, there have been signs of life—in the form of short sales and huge preforeclosure price cuts that have put living families into some of those homes, and that may do the same for many more in the near future…
List Price: $2.975 million
Sale Price: $2.81 million
The Property: Although this 5,700-square-foot home was built in Chicago’s Old Town in 2005, its brick and limestone construction, its slender, arched windows, and its flat façade make it appear much older. But if the attached two-car garage doesn’t give away its true age, a look inside at the elevator…
