By Dennis Rodkin
Jonathon Brandmeier, the Chicago radio personality who took over the morning show at WGN Radio in December, has quietly had his six-story River North home for sale since June. The asking price is $5.9 million... Read more
Tag: Housing Bulletin
By Dennis Rodkin
Earlier this month, Cook County rolled out a one-stop website that pulls together information on a property’s taxes, ownership, and assessment—each of which came from a different website in the past... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
A new federal report has provided yet another sign that Chicago’s housing market is in the slow lane on the road to recovery. The report, issued last week with the government’s monthly housing scorecard, noted that, during the past year, the area saw a 1.5 percent increase in the number of homes at risk of foreclosure, rising from 125,400 homes in January 2011 to 127,300 homes in January 2012... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
About six months from now, 100 homeless military veterans in Cook County will have a place to live, thanks to a $760,872 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Those 100 vets represent a 55 percent increase in the number of Cook County veterans helped into housing through HUD’s Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program (VASH)... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
Positive signs in the housing market these days are outnumbered by negative ones—such as the data released Tuesday by Case Shiller that showed Chicago home values in January 2012 dipping back to January 2001 levels. And in neighborhoods that are largely African-American or Latino, the positives are even fewer... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
Digging into the data from which we built the home-values charts in the April issue of Chicago, I’ve found a dozen city neighborhoods or suburbs showing signs that they’ve hit bottom and may be on the way back up... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
Cubs great Ryne Sandberg and his wife, Margaret, put their three-bedroom Streeterville co-op on the market Wednesday, asking $650,000. The home has 2,500 square feet of space in a classic brick-and-limestone 1920s building... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
For the April issue of Chicago, which hits newsstands this week, we created charts that show how home values are holding up in the city’s neighborhoods and suburbs. For the most part, they’re looking wan, at best—except for Kenilworth... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
In Logan Square, East Pilsen, and other Chicago neighborhoods, new residences are going up—and being swiftly bought—that go by the brand name Smart Tech Homes. But they could also be called the bungalows of the 21st century... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
Michael Jordan, that most iconic of Chicago sports figures, put his gated Highland Park estate on the market this morning, asking $29 million. It is by far the highest-priced home listed in the Chicago area. A Barrington Hills estate is up for $14.9 million... Read more