Chicago Houses

Lincoln Park’s Hartland Park homes for sale

click to see all Hartland Park homes for sale January 16, 2012

Single family homes and townhouses are for sale in Hartland Park, a unique community within Chicago’s Lincoln Park. Here’s a review of the houses and townhomes that I have previewed or shown along with photos and details of the other properties for sale. Click to continue...

Lakeview single family home sales up 35% in 3rd Quarter!

click to see full chart October 7, 2011

The recent sale of a single family home in Lakeview to Rose O’Donnell has gotten a lot of press. What is also noteworthy is the number of single family homes that sold in Lakeview in the 3rd Quarter which was up 35.7% over 2010′s 3rd Quarter. Click to continue...

Chicago houses for sale reach 3 year low

Click to see full chart May 23, 2011

Over the past 4 days I showed over 20 houses in areas including Lincoln Park, North Center and Lakeview. The number of houses in Chicago listed for sale reached a 3 year low in the first quarter of 2011. Click to continue...

Lakeview house prices continue to see improvement in Q1 2011

Click to see full chart of Lakeview house median prices April 15, 2011

One of the bright spots in Chicago’s housing market is houses in Lakeview. The quarterly median sale price has been climbing year over year since the 2nd quarter of last year. Click to continue...

Lincoln Park 4 bedroom houses for sale back to 2 year low

Click to see Lincoln Park 4 bedroom house inventory levels for the past 2 years February 11, 2011

I’m working on a market analysis for a four bedroom house in Lincoln Park. My market analyses include checking inventory levels to see how many such homes are currently on the market. I drill down in the data much deeper, but a chart of the last 2 years of monthly inventory levels tells us several Click to continue...

Lincoln Park average house price down 13.8% in 3rd quarter 2010

Click to see full chart November 22, 2010

The average sale price of a Lincoln Park house last quarter was $1,627,000, down 13.8% from 3rd quarter 2009. The median price was $1,275,000, down 15%. Click to continue...

Median sale price up 36% in 3rd quarter for Lakeview houses

Click to see full chart October 11, 2010

One of the bright spots in the Chicago real estate market last quarter was the Lakeview house market. The median sale price was $1,170,000, up 36% from 3rd quarter 2009. Click to continue...

Nina’s Bed and Breakfast Opens in Andersonville

Nina's Bed and Breakfast September 13, 2010

A bed and breakfast in an Andersonville house I helped clients purchase last fall had its open house yesterday. Nina’s Bed and Breakfast, a women’s B&B, is located at 1303 W. Winona just a few blocks from the Andersonville commercial district and the Argyle Red Line Train Stop. Click to continue...

Andersonville house vs. condo sales

Click to see full chart June 20, 2010

Today a couple of my buyers had the inspection for the condo they are buying in Andersonville. When people ask me about the Andersonville real estate market it’s hard to answer them because there are so few sales in any given month. Click to continue...

Lakeview vs. Chicago April 2010 home sales

Click for details May 27, 2010

Recently the Illinois Association of Realtors released market data for April 2010 report provided for Chicago, but not areas within Chicago. I pulled together the statistics for Lakeview so that they can be compared to all of Chicago Click to continue...

Irving Park 5 bedroom houses for sale

Thumbnail image for Irving Park 5 bedroom houses for sale April 25, 2010

Last week a seller wanted to talk with me about taking over the listing for her 5 bedroom house in Irving Park. It’s been on the market a while and she’s looking for a Realtor to do better marketing. It’s a beautiful house and I could see numerous ways of improving the marketing, but I Click to continue...

Lincoln Square January house median $1.3M?!

February 9, 2010

While working on my monthly real estate newsletter, “Maximizing Equity“, one statistic really caught my attention. The median sale price for houses in Lincoln Square for January 2010 was $1.3M! As shown below, it’s well above the monthly median sales prices in Lincoln Square for the past 2 years. A closer look revealed that only Click to continue...

Chicago’s 3QTR home sales up for houses down for condos

Thumbnail image for Chicago’s 3QTR home sales up for houses down for condos November 10, 2009

Yesterday’s ChicagoBusiness.com reported several Chicago Metro Area housing statistics from reports the Illinois Association of Realtors released on Monday. While the statistics were favorable in terms of units sold for the entire Chicago Metro Area, the article was much less positive about the Chicago market stating, “Yet the market continues to decline in the city Click to continue...

Rogers Park 5+ Bedroom Houses

September 4, 2009

Some buyers and I have visited a large house for sale in Rogers Park a couple of times recently. It’s one of the few homes in Rogers Park with 5 or more bedrooms. Of the 21 Rogers Park houses that sold in the past year only 3 of them had 5 or more bedrooms. The Click to continue...

The Standard Chicago Lot Size

April 21, 2008

If you see the term, “Standard Chicago Lot”, on listings and don’t know what it means, you’re not alone. In fact, a lot Chicago listing agents don’t know what it means either! In a very non-scientific test yesterday, I picked 3 areas of Chicago and searched for listings with a lot size of Standard Chicago Click to continue...

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