Making An Entrance
Two new buildings provide a West Side neighborhood with a dramatic new portal
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Aria Area
Curtain goes up on condos in Lyric Opera’s former warehouse
New on the Market—Going the Extra Yard in Lincoln Park
List Price: $3,977,000 The Property: Filling its slender lot nearly to the perimeter leaves this new Lincoln Park mansion with only a few slivers of open ground. No problem: there is still a yard—only it’s upstairs and spread across several levels. Two of the levels are directly off the family room, right where you might … Read more
Housing Bulletin—Going for the Green
You might expect the guy who built and sold one of the more expensive “green” houses in Chicago to be a lifelong environmentalist whose crusade is finally paying off. But no: Paul Ahlrich initially jumped onto the green housing bandwagon for the potential payoff. “I did these [houses] to learn how to build green so I could keep making money in a bad market,” Ahlrich says of the houses at 2652, 2656, and 2658 West Walton Street; the westernmost house (2658) sold on July 27th for $923,000…
Sale of the Week—A Fox Lake Retreat
List Price: $1,399,000 Sale Price: $1,376,420 The Property: At the northern tip of Stanton Point, a slim peninsula that juts half a mile into Fox Lake, this newly built five-bedroom house is one of four new homes planned for the site of the old Jukebox Saturday Night bar. “It’s a one-of-a-kind point, the best place … Read more
The Geography of Money
A color-coded look at the distribution of median household income across Chicago’s neighborhoods and suburbs.
There’s No Place Like Tome
High volume of sales as buyers book title to Library Tower condos
Your Best Offer
After touring an Old Town penthouse with Deal Estate, three real-estate agents made hypothetical bids on the home
Housing Bulletin-How One Developer Outsmarted the Condo Market
Six years ago, when Golub & Co., the Chicago-based real-estate development company, announced plans to build a high-rise rental-apartment building at 345 East Ohio Street, it seemed like a distinctly contrarian choice. At the time, virtually everyone with a piece of land downtown was building condo towers.
Look at how things have changed: Completed a year ago and dubbed the Streeter, the 481-unit building, now almost fully rented out, was sold last week to the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, reportedly for about $210 million…
Sale of the Week-A Beachfront House with Prairie Style – Wilmette
List Price: $7,495,000 Sale Price: $7,250,000 The Property: This Prairie-style house-whose art glass and other decorative details have a beach grass motif that references its Lake Michigan shoreline setting-sold July 30th for the highest price on record in Wilmette. Built in 1915 on a street that is still cobbled in bricks, the house was the … Read more