List Price: $3,550,000Sale Price: $3,400,000 The Property: Almost perfectly situated in tony Kenilworth, with prestigious public elementary and high schools within a few blocks’ walk and a picturesque park right across the street, this new 20-room home has the charm and hand-wrought details of an old-time house in the North Shore village, but a contemporary … Read more
List Price: $4,375,000 The Property: Not only is this elegant ten-room mansion situated in upscale Lake Forest, but it sits in the most prestigious part of town, a neighborhood known as VELF: Very East Lake Forest. But in 2005, when Dan and Wanda O’Rourke bought the place for $2.9 million, the house was showing its … Read more
List Price: $25 million Sale Price: $16 million On Tuesday, the developer Orren Pickell bought a princely Lake Bluff estate-a 24-room mansion on 21 acres-for $16 million. The estate’s sellers, Ron and Pat Friedman, had listed the place for sale almost six years ago at $25 million and held firm to their asking price all … Read more
Donald Trump lands the first punch in the battle of the Big Towers and Big Egos
(blog updated below) There may be an unusually large number of people using personal digit assistants (PDAs) in the Loop on Thursday evening, but they won’t be checking their e-mail or the sports scores. They will be buying condos. The developer American Invsco, which is converting the 47-story apartment high-rise at 200 North Dearborn Street … Read more
List Price: $1 millionSale Price: $1,106,506 The Property: By combining two corner-unit condos into one 4,000-square-foot layout, a pair of senior citizens looking for a low-maintenance home created what is now far and away the highest-priced home in Wheeling. Gloria and Donald Cooper sold their house of 20 years in Riverwoods this year. “We’re too … Read more
What do all the owners of one Hyde Park colonial revival have in common? A not-so-common pattern of success.
List Price: $4,499,999 The Property: This four-story townhouse on Astor Street is a stunner both outside and in: although the exterior-with its ornately detailed brick, copper, and stone façade-dates to 1888, the interior got a complete overhaul in 2007. The home and two of its neighbors were designed by the great Chicago architect John Wellborn … Read more
To mark the Independence Day holiday, Deal Estate examined sales data from the Multiple Listing Service of Northern Illinois to find out how many homes were sold in the Chicago region on streets with names that evoke the spirit of ’76. Number of homes sold over the past 12 months on streets named Liberty: 59 … Read more
List Price: $1,249,000 Sale Price: $1,225,000 The Property: Though this eight-room house looks like a Roscoe Village old-timer, it’s actually been around for only seven years. “Part of the aesthetic I come from is to build new homes that are consistent with the architecture of the neighborhood,” says Ed Donley, the home’s architect, builder, owner, … Read more
