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Gold Coast

Gold Coast’s E. Lake Shore Drive Broker Tour 01/12/2010

January 12, 2010

This afternoon I attended broker tours on East Lake Shore Drive in the Gold Coast. Eight different agents from a variety of brokerages wisely coordinated and promoted their tours so that agents could tour 9 different condos on the 2 block strip of East Lake Shore Drive between Michigan Avenue and Lake Shore Drive. One [...]

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Chicago Gold Cost Homes for Sale with Million Dollar Discounts

January 4, 2010

A year ago I was searching homes for sale in the Gold Coast for a gentleman looking to relocate to Chicago. He put his search on hold in the spring, but recently contacted me to start sending him Gold Coast homes for sale priced up to $5M. In reviewing Gold Coast listings I found 3 [...]

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Ten East Delaware Condos include porter & other services

December 8, 2009

Yesterday I showed 5 condos in the Near North Side and West Loop to buyers from NYC who are accustomed to having a porter in their building. While all of the 5 buildings we visited have a door person, only Ten East Delaware (shown left) will also provide a porter when units start closing this [...]

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Baird & Warner lists Chicago’s highest priced residential listing for $14M

November 8, 2009

Today’s Sunday Chicago Tribune article, “Wrigley chairman’s Gold Coast penthouse listing is city’s most expensive“, details Bill Wrigley Jr.’s sale of his Gold Coast penthouse for $14M. Mr. Wrigley is the chewing gum heir and chairman of Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
The condo is listed by Baird & Warner agents, Brian White and James Kinney. The [...]

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Chicago Area Whole Foods Map

December 26, 2007

My partner’s brother’s family is visiting this week and they’re big fans of Whole Foods. For those of you not familiar with Whole Foods, it’s a grocery store chain which sells high quality natural and organic products. For you Whole Foods Fans out there relocating to the Chicago area, I thought I’d create a map [...]

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Searching for a Home in a Specific Neighborhood has its Challenges

July 25, 2007

The other night I was on the phone with a buyer who inquired about Gold Coast houses for sale. I ran a quick search in MLSNI* for listings with Gold Coast as the subdivision and the system returned only 2 houses. The next day I ran a search of Near North Side houses (which would [...]

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Gold Coast Video

March 24, 2007

The Gold Coast neighborhood in Chicago is one of the areas a buyer of mine is considering. He’s still in Hawaii, so I thought I’d post a video on the Gold Coast for him to watch. The video is by Ian Sklarsky. If you’re interested in more of Ian’s videos, you can visit his blog, [...]

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