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Tag: Sale of the Week
Nearby Foreclosures Affect Glenview Sale
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $909,000
Sale Price: $818,000
The Property: In June 2008, when this Glenview house was on the market with an asking price of $1.399 million, I used it as an instance of the downward price pressure then percolating for home sellers with foreclosed neighbors... Read more
A New Home Takes Flight in Libertyville
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: N/A for this custom-built home
Sale Price: $3.2 million
The Property: Lots of houses come with a little workshop, but this Libertyville residence has a hangar-sized second garage, where the man of the house is building an airplane... Read more
Trader, Film Producer Sells Big in Winnetka
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $5.375 million
Sale Price: $5.1 million
The Property: Last week, Steve and Kim Prosniewski—he’s a trader who produced a 2010 movie about the decline of Chicago’s trading floors—completed the sale of their 15-room Winnetka home... Read more
Cook County Republican Bound for Texas Sells in Wilmette
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $829,000
Sale Price: Not available
The Property: Roger Keats, the Republican candidate who lost last fall’s election for president of the Cook County Board, has pronounced himself sick of corruption in Illinois and sold his Wilmette home to move to Texas... Read more
A Ravenswood House with a North Chicago Clone
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.699 million
Sale Price: $1.606 million
The Property: In 1891, just three years after founding the company that would grow into the pharmaceutical giant Abbott Labs, Wallace Abbott built this 15-room house in what was then the Chicago suburb Ravenwsood... Read more
A Good Deal on a Car Dealer’s Winnetka House
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1 million
Sale Price: $900,000
The Property: In 2006, federal marshals seized this 7,400-square-foot, five-bedroom Winnetka house after its owner was charged with selling scores of luxury cars to Chicago gang members for cash as a way of helping them launder millions of dollars in drug profits... Read more