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Expectant Lemont Couple Make Room at the Inn, in Lemont
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $750,000
The Property: Dating to the 1850s or 1860s, this Victorian delicacy was recently fitted out as a bed and breakfast. But once its owners, Cyndi and Paul Busse, learned they were expecting a baby, they opted instead to put the place on the market as a private home, says their agent, Sharon Sodikoff... Read more
An Early Wright Revamp in Oak Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.195 million
Sale Price: $1.050 million
The Property: Renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright early in his career, this 17-room Oak Park house had been on and off the market for more than two years before finally selling at about 61 percent of its original asking price... Read more
True to Form in Irving Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $859,700
The Property: In 1999, when Charlie and Natalie Walsh bought this big brick house in Chicago’s Irving Park neighborhood, “almost nothing had been done to it since the 1950s,” Natalie says. Since buying the place, the Walshes have extensively remodeled and updated the house, always trying to stay true to its original design... Read more
Selling Time Increases Significantly in Many Communities
By Dennis Rodkin
Comparing Chicago’s annual real-estate charts from 2006 to the ones that appeared in the October 2010 issue of the magazine, I found that the average length of time that a house waits on the market has more than doubled in 29 Chicago neighborhoods and 129 suburbs. The two places where market time has lengthened the most over those four years are Montclare on Chicago’s Northwest Side and Lake Forest on the North Shore... Read more