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Discounted Foreclosure in Hot Blaine School Neighborhood
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.849 million
Sale Price: $1.7 million
The Property: This 13-room house is across the street from Blaine Elementary, one of the city’s best-performing grade schools and an anchor for families who want to be in the Southport Corridor zone of hipness... Read more
A Buyer’s Guide to Pullman
By Dennis Rodkin
In the 1880s, the railroad-car magnate George Pullman built a factory and a company town for his employees on what’s now Chicago’s Far South Side. The industrial works have largely disappeared... Read more
Chicago Fares Poorly in National Real-Estate News
By Dennis Rodkin
If your Twitter feed is anything like mine, it seemed to be in two moods on Tuesday morning. Shortly after the release of the latest monthly data from the S&P/Case Shiller Index, the tweeting started—“Home Prices Continue to Rise: Housing is Now Economic ‘Bright Spot’” was the tone of the national news... Read more
Down (20 Percent) by the Riverside
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $899,000
Sale Price: $795,000
The Property: In December 2003, fresh off an extensive restoration, this house in a picturesque section of Riverside sold for $1 million... Read more
From Party Pad to Family Place, in Bucktown
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.999 million
The Property: Bucktown has matured nicely over the past decade, as has this neighborhood house—though en route from party pad to high-end family home, it took a detour into foreclosure... Read more
Are Chicago Sellers Just Tired of Losing?
By Dennis Rodkin
The year-end real-estate data has been rolling in for the past week or so, and much of it is encouraging. But there’s something that bugs me—and, I believe, a lot of sellers or potential sellers... Read more
Nate Berkus’s Slow-to-Sell Condo Suddenly Sells Fast
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.89 million
Sale Price: $1.6 million
The Property: An Astor Street condominium that the interior designer and TV host Nate Berkus first put on the market in March 2011 was sold last Wednesday—just three days after the listing agent marked it as having a contract pending... Read more
In Wrightwood, Welcome to the 1990s
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $777,000
The Property: This house, in a part of Chicago called Wrightwood Neighbors, is a classic type of urban residence in its resemblance to a milk carton: tall and slender, with a peaked roof. And in this case, some of the contents are beyond their expiration date... Read more
St. Charles Mansion Sells After Six Years
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.995 million
Sale Price: $1.775 million
The Property: Previously priced by the builder at $4.8 million, this 11,400-square-foot house in St. Charles may seem awfully big to be considered eco-friendly... Read more