List Price: $1,450,000 Sale Price: $1,011,500 The Property: “It’s a home that was built for the kind of people who loved the Rat Pack,” says Dan Delano, the real estate agent who recently sold this Park Ridge house, built in 1961. “I thought that would be a selling point, but I guess we live in a world of...
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List Price: $1,450,000 Sale Price: $1,011,500 The Property: “It’s a home that was built for the kind of people who loved the Rat Pack,” says Dan Delano, the real estate agent who recently sold this Park Ridge house, built in 1961. “I thought that would be a selling point, but I guess we live in a world of...
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List Price: $1,450,000 Sale Price: $1,011,500 The Property: “It’s a home that was built for the kind of people who loved the Rat Pack,” says Dan Delano, the real estate agent who recently sold this Park Ridge house, built in 1961. “I thought that would be a selling point, but I guess we live in a world of...
List Price: $1,450,000 Sale Price: $1,011,500 The Property: “It’s a home that was built for the kind of people who loved the Rat Pack,” says Dan Delano, the real estate agent who recently sold this Park Ridge house, built in 1961. “I thought that would be a selling point, but I guess we live in a world of...
’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring—not even a real-estate agent eager to show off the granite countertops in the kitchen or the triangular Jacuzzi for two in the master bath. Instead, with home sales down more than 40 percent from the height of the market in 2006, agents have been departing the industry in large numbers. At the end of November, with roughly 57,100 members, the Illinois Association of Realtors (IAR) had experienced a...
List Price: $1,995,000 Sale Price: $1,595,000 The Property: The rear of this 12-room house looks across a swimming pool and enormous back lawn toward a small lake (part of Ginger Creek) and, beyond that, to homes on the other side of the water. Approximately 35 years old, this house has a soaring peaked ceiling in the main living rooms, four bedrooms, and a...
List Price: $1,099,000 The Property: With its mix of crisp, orderly limestone on the lower walls and rusticated stucco and half timbers above, this mansion, built in 1927, isn’t sure whether it’s French or English. But instead of feeling confused, the eclectic exterior makes an apt container for what’s inside: a 13-room collection of materials and craftwork from...