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Developer carves ten condos from former mail center
Developer carves ten condos from former mail center
Roomy, updated kitchens enhance already elegant fixtures at Grand Briar
In Relatively Close, the new James Sherman comedy that opened at Victory Gardens Theater last week, three adult sisters and their families gather at their late parents’ longtime summer home in Union Pier, Michigan. One of the sisters wants to sell the place, and she’s planning to spend the week convincing her sisters it’s a …
Would-be homeowners are discovering the silver lining behind the falling prices in the local real-estate market. Here are six housing bargains snapped up by lucky or savvy buyers so far this year
With the help from the developer, these spacious two-bedroom condos are filled with sunshine
Design enhances views
List price: $975,000
The Property: While searching for a home, Zbigniew and Beata Banas became accidental developers. They found a property they liked—a shuttered church in the Irving Park neighborhood on Chicago’s Northwest Side—but the building, a simple peaked structure with a spire piercing its roof, proved far too large for just one…
The latest reports show that the tide of foreclosures keeps rising. Last week, Realty Trac reported that one of every 538 mortgaged homes in Illinois is in some stage of foreclosure. (In the Chicago metropolitan area, Kane County had the highest concentration—1 in 415 mortgages—and DuPage County had the lowest: 1 in 734.) The week before, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported that 2.5 percent of all mortgages were…