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Bienvenue to the South Loop
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1,499,900
The Property: This 4,300-square-foot condo on the 19th floor of a century-old building on South Michigan Avenue has expansive views of Grant Park, the skyline, and Lake Michigan—but it is laid out with the convenience of suburban ranch house... Read more
Marketing a Vintage House
By Dennis Rodkin
Sellers of vintage homes may be at a greater disadvantage now than during a healthy real-estate market. Homebuyers today are getting such great deals on new or recent construction—sometimes at rock-bottom foreclosure prices—that they don’t have to bother with taking on a house that needs some updating just to get a better price... Read more
This Sale Kilt a Two-Year Orren Pickell Dry Spell
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $3.618 million
Sale Price: $3.1 million
The Property: A 13-room house built in 2008 by Orren Pickell Designers & Builders as the model home in what was to be an enclave of country mansions in Bannockburn has been sold—but for only 64 percent of what the company had initially asked for it. Read more
Tudor Fantasy in Winnetka
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4.185 million
The Property: One in a string of three prominent lakefront homes in Winnetka that are often called “the storybook houses” for their fanciful architecture, this Tudor house has a remarkable living room that seems to have sprung more from a stately English country home than a fairy tale... Read more