Square Deals
As Lincoln Square booms, developers try to meet demand
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No One’s Home
Though it looks like a single-family house, the roomy Winngate comprises 13 condos.
Drexel’s New Heritage
Improvements along Hyde Park avenue spur change in developer’s plans.
Sale of the Week-A New Sales Record for Lincolnwood
List Price: $2.44 million Sale Price: $2.1 million The Property: Far larger than the neighboring ranch houses, this ten-room, 5,000-square-foot home topped the previous sales record for Lincolnwood by $750,000 when it was sold June 5th. Custom built for the current owners, the house (in the Lincolnwood Towers subdivision) has a number of elegant touches, … Read more
Your Best Offer
Send tips about high-end home sales to dennis@rodkin.com. Three real-estate agents provide Deal Estate with their assessments of a stylish city condo The Location: Lincoln Park The Listing: The architects Ron Krueck and Mark Sexton designed the interior of this 22nd-floor condo, which overlooks the park and Lake Michigan. The owner, Celia Marriott-who commissioned Krueck … Read more
Deal Estate Condo
Send tips about high-end home sales to dennis@rodkin.com. Buy Condo, Get Walking PapersPort Clinton Place homeowners will enjoy ready access to restaurants and schools Illustration: David Walker Vernon HillsFrom $243,900to $564,900 Not far from the intersection of Half Day Road and Milwaukee Avenue, a mix of row houses and mid-rise condo buildings are slated to … Read more
New on the Market – Quirky Condo in Chicago’s Old Town
List Price: $750,000 The Property: This eccentric two-bedroom condo is one of 16 units in the landmark Carl Street Studios (at 155 West Burton Place). The offbeat building began taking shape in 1927, when Sol Kogen and Edgar Miller, who had met at the School of the Art Institute, took an enormous brick Victorian mansion … Read more
Deal Estate
Send tips about high-end home sales to dennis@rodkin.com.by Dennis Rodkin Thy Neighbor’s HouseInterlinked 30 years ago by a rehab, two Astor Street houses-one an elegant Georgian, the other a more modern residence-hit the market simultaneously Photograph: Chris Guillen Gold CoastList price: $4.950 million (left)List price: $9.995 million (right) Two neighboring Astor Street houses, conjoined by … Read more
Housing Bulletin – Auction Action
With just 30 percent of their condos sold at a time when they had hoped to have 80 percent spoken for, the developers of the Bluestem, a contemporary residential building on Wolf Road in Westchester, announced this week that they will put the remaining units up for auction in July. It is the latest in … Read more
Treasure Hunter
At Architectural Artifacts, his huge store in Ravenswood, Stuart Grannen holds court in a kingdom of the beautiful, the rescued, and the reclaimed