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Tag: Sale of the Week
A Mid-Priced Mid-Century Modern
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.29 million
Sale Price: $950,000
The Property: Although its street face is mostly an off-putting wall of brick, the other three sides and the interior of this Glencoe home demonstrate the mid-century modernist concept that a house should contain simple, open spaces with a nearly transparent connection to the outdoors. Read more
Lake Forest Foreclosure Is a Sign of the Times
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2,695,000
Sale Price: $2,037,750
The Property: This 12-room mansion on two and a half acres in Lake Forest sold at foreclosure on December 22nd. Built in 1996 on a cul-de-sac of seven homes carved out of an old Green Bay Road estate, the house mimics English country styles with its tall brick peaks and ornamented limestone bay. Photos that accompanied the listing show... Read more
ABC-7’s Kevin Roy Sells in Andersonville
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $850,000 Sale Price: $825,000 The Property: Kevin Roy, the weekend morning anchor at ABC-7 Chicago (WLS-TV), has sold his home in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood. Roy bought the place in May 2007 after living in a post-and-beam ranch house in Riverwoods that was designed by Burton Frank. Read more
WGN’s Tom Skilling Makes a Move
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $799,000
Sale Price: $770,000
The Property: Tom Skilling, the WGN-TV weather guru, has bought a condo on the Far North Side. Skilling had lived on a higher floor in the 45-story building since 1978, but, unlike his old place, the new condo on a lower floor offers a full view of the lake, it’s like a... Read more
A Distressed House Rebounds in Lincoln Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.875 million
Sale Price: $2.830 million
The Property: Just 13 months ago, this house was a bank-owned mess. The bank, Countrywide, let it go as a short sale for $1.85 million—although in 2006 it had approved a mortgage on the place for $4.1 million. Read more
Foreclosed in Winnetka
By Dennis Rodkin
The Properties: Both of these Winnetka houses sold in October as foreclosures. In each case, the buyers got the house for at least $1 million less than its presumed value—and a closer look at those sales reveals the different ways foreclosures can impact affluent and lower-income communities... Read more