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Beyond the Secret Garden, in Lincoln Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4.99 million
The Property: The formal, Parisian-styled façade of this home masks its past life as a warehouse, just as the stone wall that extends from it conceals a lovely garden through which a path winds to the house’s broad glass front doors... Read more
A Lake View Developer Capitalizes on a Sagging Market
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.99 million
Sale Price: $2.7 million
The Property: This new English-accented home in Lake View’s esteemed Blaine School district is the first project sold by a developer who came into the struggling residential real-estate market with a strategy of capitalizing on sagging prices... Read more
Merry Olde Evanston
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.59 million
The Property: From its large turret to its leaded-glass windows and beamed ceilings, this well-kept home from 1893 (with a 1930s addition) contains many attractive Tudor details... Read more
Realtors’ 2011 Forecast: “Ho-Hum”
By Dennis Rodkin
On Tuesday, the latest data from the Case Shiller Index showed that among the country’s 20 largest cities, Chicago-area home values for November 2010 took the second-largest fall from the year before. Prices were down 7.6 percent from November 2009; only Atlanta, at 7.9 percent, fell further... Read more
Winnetka Manor Sells for 43 Times Its 1952 Purchase Price
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4.9 million
Sale Price: $4.625 million
The Property: The sellers of this English country home in Winnetka got only 88 percent of the $5.2 million that they had originally asked for the place—but that’s still at least 43 times what their parents had paid for it in 1952... Read more