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Dennis Rodkin
On the Market: Heart of Glass, Old Town
By Dennis Rodkin
It must be nice to have an architect like Rodrigo del Canto for a father. When his two daughters were young, del Canto built them a rooftop pool above the garage of the family’s Lincoln Park home. A few years ago, designing a new home in Old Town for himself and the two girls—teenagers by... Read more
Housing Bulletin: Helping Buyers Sell—and Is There a Doctor with a House?
By Dennis Rodkin
In the good old days (that is, a couple of years ago), buyers of new homes still under construction had a period of at least several months in which to sell their older home while waiting for the new one to be finished. But now, with a lot of new residential inventory standing ready to go, Jeff Benach, a builder, has found that most potential buyers show up at... Read more
Sale of the Week: Foreclosure on the 50th Floor, Gold Coast
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1,150,000
Sale Price: $1,185,000
The Property: In what appears to be the city’s loftiest foreclosure so far, a five-room condo on the 50th floor of the Park Tower, the 70-story hotel and residential high-rise immediately west of Chicago’s historic Water Tower, was sold on May 28th. Although there were five bidders—all offering to pay up... Read more
On the Market: A Chicago Price That Trumps Trump
By Dennis Rodkin
From this three-bedroom, four-bath condo on the 73rd floor of Trump Hotel & Tower, the view is spectacular—and relatively cheap. Sure, it’s priced at a little over $2 million, but that’s a full $1.2 million less than the developers want for the same view, and the same floor plan, four flights up... Read more