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Tag: Sale of the Week
A Realistic Deal in Naperville
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $825,000
Sale Price: $775,000
The Property: Three of the strikes against this 13-room home in a high-end Naperville subdivision are hard to hide: the empty lot on either side of the house and the third vacant lot behind this property’s nicely landscaped quarter-acre... Read more
Foreclosed, Finished, and Flipped in Wicker Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.699 million
Sale Price: $1.475 million
The Property: The rectilinear components of this Wicker Park façade look pieced together as in a jigsaw puzzle—an apt analogy for the home’s piecemeal financial history... Read more
A Lake View Developer Capitalizes on a Sagging Market
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.99 million
Sale Price: $2.7 million
The Property: This new English-accented home in Lake View’s esteemed Blaine School district is the first project sold by a developer who came into the struggling residential real-estate market with a strategy of capitalizing on sagging prices... Read more
Winnetka Manor Sells for 43 Times Its 1952 Purchase Price
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4.9 million
Sale Price: $4.625 million
The Property: The sellers of this English country home in Winnetka got only 88 percent of the $5.2 million that they had originally asked for the place—but that’s still at least 43 times what their parents had paid for it in 1952... Read more
Nobody Move
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.5 million
Sale Price: $2.5 million
The Property: A 40th-floor penthouse at the 600 North Fairbanks condo tower has sold, but nobody’s moving... Read more