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Tag: Sale of the Week
In Lake Forest, a Home From Two Eras
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.295 million
Sale Price: $2.1 million
The Property: Overlooking Lake Michigan from atop a wooded bluff, this Lake Forest home combines architectural elements from the late-19th and mid-20th centuries... Read more
The Fourth Cut Brings Forth Bidders in Southport Corridor
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.599 million
Sale Price: $1.599 million
The Property: When it hit the market in June, this home in the Southport Corridor was sure to get noticed, with its façade of many materials, its six outdoor terraces, and its style-setting interior finishes... Read more
Another House Sale Related to Blagojevich Scandal
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.87 million
Sale Price: $1.55 million
The Property: This 103-year-old Tudor-style home in Glencoe was sold last week by P. Nicholas Hurtgen, a former investment banker involved in the influence-peddling scandal surrounding former governor Rod Blagojevich... Read more
Did a $1 Million Foreclosure Help the Glenview Market?
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $999,000
Sale Price:  $1 million
The Property: The agent who sold this foreclosed 12-room house in a very desirable east neighborhood in Glenview thinks that the sale helped nudge the town’s real-estate market upward a smidge, rather than hurt nearby sellers, as many foreclosures have been shown to do... Read more
A Record-Setting House Sale for Park Ridge
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $3.95 million
Sale Price: $3.19 million
The Property: Frank Calabrese, a longtime owner of thoroughbred horses with impressive records at Arlington Park and in Florida, has sold his custom-built 15-room house in Park Ridge for $3.192 million. According to Midwest Real Estate Data, that’s the highest sale price on record for that northwest suburb—and Calabrese’s agent, Danny McGovern, says that the buyers paid cash... Read more
Builder Raves On in East Ravenswood
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price:$2.3 million
Sale Price: $2.3 million
The Property: This newly built 15-room house scored the record price for a residence in East Ravenswood, the Chicago neighborhood that is home to Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The house, two blocks south of Emanuel’s house, is the third on its block built by the developer Christopher Olson... Read more
Mike Royko’s Widow Sells Historical Graystone
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.995 million
Sale Price: $1.8 million
The Property: Judy Royko, the widow of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko, last Monday sold the 116-year-old Lincoln Park graystone she bought in 2003, six years after her husband’s death... Read more
Missed It By That Much
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.2 million
Sale Price: $1.05 million
The Property: When this hilltop mansion in Beverly was last sold (in 1995), it was the first home in the neighborhood to sell for more than $500,000, recalls its latest selling agent, Sandra Bianciotto... Read more