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Yet Another Chicago Condo Sale at $6 Million or More
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $7.25 million
Sale Price: $6.55 million
The Property: An extensively restored and modernized nine room co-op condo at 209 E. Lake Shore Drive is the third downtown condo to have sold for $6 million or more since late June. Read more
Ben Hecht’s Hyde Park Home
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $699,000
The Property: Of Ben Hecht’s thousand and one afternoons in Chicago, it’s likely that some were spent at this Queen Anne-style Hyde Park house where he lived in the early 1920s... Read more
At Long Last: An Uptick
By Dennis Rodkin
There’s a long-overdue ray of hope in the data that Redfin released Thursday: Chicago home prices inched up 0.8 percent from June 2011 to June 2012... Read more
Buyers Get Bargain on Barrington Hills Estate
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $8.9 million
Sale Price: $7.5 million
The Property: A Barrington Hills estate that encompasses two golf holes, a pond stocked with fish, and more than a thousand trees—not to mention a 30,000-square-foot house—sold Thursday after being on the market just shy of three years... Read more
A Green Home Grows in Bucktown
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.79 million
The Property: Some of the greenest buildings are old ones that get reused rather than torn down. That was the philosophy behind this single-family home in Bucktown, which was built into and atop an old two-flat... Read more
Can Two Historical North Shore Houses Be Saved?
By Dennis Rodkin
Two historical North Shore homes, both on the market, were built according to very different aesthetics and are at price points far removed from one another. But they do have one thing in common: despite the eagerness of preservationists to see the houses saved, they both face the threat of being demolished... Read more