List Price: $1,795,000
Sale Price: $1,475,000
The Property: Tucked into a secluded setting, this 17-room Lake Forest house sold July 8 for 38 percent of the $3.895 million that its sellers wanted for it back in 2007.
But that’s not all…
Trump Tower “apprentice” sells his three-bedroom graystone
List Price: $259,000
The Property: When the great Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed his now-iconic twin residential towers at 860-880 N. Lake Shore Drive, completed in 1951, the small and lightless kitchens and baths were in keeping with the era’s attitude, but they look..
Design requirement created lots more room for windows
Apartments reborn as condos were gutted “down to the walls”
Nearly 25 percent of all local mortgages are “under water,” website reports
Some 100 years ago, a Chicago industrialist and Kenwood landowner presented this three-story residence to his newly married daughter
Quiet architect and developer makes a statement
Christian Chase knows foreclosures. He should—his past seven homes have all been foreclosures that he bought, cleaned up and (except for the one he lives in now) put back on the market.
“To me, it doesn’t make sense to buy something on the retail market when you can buy a [foreclosed home] so far under the market,” Chase says. And these days, deeply discounted distress-sale properties are virtually..
List Price: $18 million
UPDATED Price Reduction as of 7/10: $15 million
The Property: This grand home on Lake Forest’s Mayflower Road is truly one of the most magnificent ever built in Chicago. The 27-room mansion was completed in 1915 as a wedding gift from John G. Shedd, then the president of Marshall Field & Co., to his daughter, Laura, newly married to Charles Schweppe…
