List Price: $1.25 million Sale Price: $1.17 million The Property: With its shingle siding and crisp white trim, this 11-room house—built in 1998 and surrounded by tall trees—contributes to the feel of a small New England village that characterizes the east side of Lake Bluff. The welcoming arch over the front steps is repeated in … Read more
List Price: $2.499 million
The Property: This spacious, newly completed four-story home is one of a planned string of five houses and an eight-unit condo building going up on the 1600 block of North Wolcott Street in Bucktown. The first one finished, this house is a joint project of JODI Development and Ranquist Development. The latter, run by the husband-and-wife team of Bob and Karen Ranquist, has been responsible for some of the finest contemporary architecture in this architecturally savvy…
Dennis Rodkin appears regularly on WGN’s Spike O’Dell Radio Program to discuss properties not mentioned in the Deal Estate blog. Check back here each week to find links to those listings. From the 9/26/07 show: Near West Side/UIC area ($295,000) Flossmoor ($299,000) Forest Park ($299,000) From the 9/20/07 show: Plainfield ($234,900) Elk Grove Village ($229,999)
It turns out housing prices in the Lincoln Square neighborhood (on Chicago’s Northwest Side) haven’t been on the two-year roller coaster ride suggested by Chicago’s October issue. Because of a problem with our data, the magazine’s annual real-estate charts reported an artificially large jump in prices in Lincoln Square in October 2006; as a result, the October 2007 charts indicated a dramatic (and false) decline…
Chicago’s annual survey of high-end house sales reveals a rare downturn in volume
List Price: $2.95 million Sold Price: $2.325 million The Property: Built in 1996, this 11-room house in Hinsdale has a contemporary grand foyer and stairs, a media room with its own ticket booth, and a backyard lap pool and waterfall. The house first went on the market a year ago, with an asking price of … Read more
List Price: $1.299 million The Property: This prim Swedish Evangelical church, built in 1900, was redone in the past two years as a serene, spa-like three-bedroom house, complete with a master bath hanging inside the steeple and a front hallway of ancient stone salvaged from Jerusalem. The house now has a sharp contemporary kitchen whose … Read more
This is the third installment of our close analysis of the real-estate charts that appeared in Chicago’s October issue. This week we are looking at the neighborhoods and towns where price drops were the biggest in the 12-month period covered by our charts—July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2007. Over that time, as reported in … Read more
List Price: $2.5 million Sale Price: $2.5 million The Property: This 80-year-old Tudor set a sales-price record for River Forest when it was sold on September 10th. The closing came 16 months after the agreement to sell, an unusually long time span. Typically, most deals close after 30 days or so. Here’s what happened. Back … Read more
Old loft building instantly elevates Quincy Street tower
