Dennis Rodkin
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $3,749,000
Sale Price: $3,125,000
The Property: The 19-room house in Oak Brook that belonged to James and Joann Cantalupo was sold on August 11th... Read more
Sale Price: $3,125,000
The Property: The 19-room house in Oak Brook that belonged to James and Joann Cantalupo was sold on August 11th... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $424,900
The Property: Originally the main living rooms of a mansion built in 1903, this second-floor condo has some original design elements that have been carefully preserved and restored. The most noteworthy of these features is an Art Nouveau fireplace, where flared columns flank a tile mosaic depicting yellow roses. The mantelpiece is a mirrored glass cabinet that bows outward. Nearby are... Read more
The Property: Originally the main living rooms of a mansion built in 1903, this second-floor condo has some original design elements that have been carefully preserved and restored. The most noteworthy of these features is an Art Nouveau fireplace, where flared columns flank a tile mosaic depicting yellow roses. The mantelpiece is a mirrored glass cabinet that bows outward. Nearby are... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
Three dispatches about happiness:
According to a new homeowner confidence survey from Zillow.com, homeowners in the Midwest are more glum about the near-term future of the value of their homes than their counterparts in the rest of the country. The survey, released Tuesday, comes on the heels of... Read more
According to a new homeowner confidence survey from Zillow.com, homeowners in the Midwest are more glum about the near-term future of the value of their homes than their counterparts in the rest of the country. The survey, released Tuesday, comes on the heels of... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.849 million
Sale Price: Under contract; price not yet disclosed
The Property: Having signed a five-year, $16.875-million contract with the Chicago Blackhawks in late June, David Bolland is now working on another contract: the one to purchase a seven-bedroom house in Lake View... Read more
Sale Price: Under contract; price not yet disclosed
The Property: Having signed a five-year, $16.875-million contract with the Chicago Blackhawks in late June, David Bolland is now working on another contract: the one to purchase a seven-bedroom house in Lake View... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $969,000
Sale Price: $880,000
The Property: Originally offered by its builder at $2.1 million, this 12-room Glenview house sold at foreclosure on July 6th for $880,000—or 41.9 percent of what the builder had once hoped to get for it... Read more
Sale Price: $880,000
The Property: Originally offered by its builder at $2.1 million, this 12-room Glenview house sold at foreclosure on July 6th for $880,000—or 41.9 percent of what the builder had once hoped to get for it... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $3.4 million
The Property: It must have been blind optimism that convinced Tom Tremback back in 1991 that he could turn a fleabag of an apartment building into a loft-style home. Whatever it was, he bought a 100-year-old structure on LaSalle Street that held five decrepit apartments and started renovating. It took ten years of work before he could move in—and a few more before he could call the entire place a... Read more
The Property: It must have been blind optimism that convinced Tom Tremback back in 1991 that he could turn a fleabag of an apartment building into a loft-style home. Whatever it was, he bought a 100-year-old structure on LaSalle Street that held five decrepit apartments and started renovating. It took ten years of work before he could move in—and a few more before he could call the entire place a... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
On Tuesday, Zillow.com released its latest round of quarterly fitness reports for the residential real-estate market. It’s an intricately detailed look at home values in cities across the country from March to May of 2009. Visitors to the site can zero in on individual Chicago suburbs and neighborhoods... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
The NBA and Olympic Star just passed off the Kinzie Park home he bought in 2009. Read more