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On the Market: Lakefront Classical—Winnetka
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $7.45 million
The Property: This classical revival mansion overlooking Lake Michigan in Winnetka was built in 1897 for Otto Butz, a prominent Chicago attorney. It has had only five owners; the fifth, Manucher and Jena Khodadad, have lived there since 1977... Read more
Housing Bulletin: A Harbor Country Auction
By Dennis Rodkin
If you’re in the market for a vacation home in Southwest Michigan, drive over to New Buffalo this Memorial Day weekend and drop by the three-day open house at the Diamond Point development, where 11 townhouses and one single-family home are going up for auction on June 6th. You will need to bone up on the rules... Read more
Sale of the Week: That Yellow House in Old Town
By Dennis Rodkin
Sale Price: $2.375 million
The Property: The bright yellow stucco of this Old Town house makes it look like the kids in the busy play lot across the street attacked the place with their crayons. Built in 1979, when Old Town was a neighborhood for urban pioneers, the house used to have a less showy façade; it was changed during... Read more
On the Market: Kid Stuff—Lincoln Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.595 million
The Property: This elegant 12-year-old home in Lincoln Park can also handle a crew of rambunctious kids. Just ask the sellers, Dick and Annie Rothkopf, who raised three kids there and are now downsizing. In fact, it was a teenager who found them the... Read more
Sale of the Week: Half-Price Sale in Northbrook
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $837,000
Sale Price: $805,000
The Property: The buyers of this big house on more than half an acre in Northbrook spent 49 percent of what its prior owners had paid for the place in 2007. Built in 2000 in a neighborhood where builders were replacing many small, older homes with far bigger residences, this house has eight rooms, each one oversized. Its white brick exterior carries through... Read more
Gavel Gifts
By Dennis Rodkin
Winning bidders reap big savings at auction of McKinley Park Lofts Read more
On the Market: A Mediterranean Villa in Highland Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $949,000
The Property: Lake Michigan may not resemble the Mediterranean Sea, but here and there along its shores, Chicagoans have built some Mediterranean-style homes—including charmers like this one, with its abundant gardens and its two-story tower reaching for the sun. Creamy orange-sherbet stucco, a clay tile roof, and round-edged window insets give the house the ambience of a miniature resort—and that’s what it might once have been... Read more
Housing Bulletin: South Loop Auction Helps Out a Neighbor
By Dennis Rodkin
The developers of two South Loop condo high-rises less than two blocks apart struggled through 2008 as they tried to sell units in the buildings. Then, this March, a big block of condos in one of the projects went on the auction block. The result was a flurry of sales not only at that building but, later, at the... Read more