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After this story was published, a spokesperson for the seller said the mansion was listed prematurely and they're pulling it off the market. No further details provided.

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he CEO of Reyes Beverage, the nation's largest beer distributor by volume, is asking a hair under $10.3 million for his blufftop Winnetka home. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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Former Caterpillar CEO sells a Four Seasons condo at below its 1996 price. This is the 3rd deeply discounted condo sale in that building in recent months. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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n Michigan City, where a much-anticipated remake into a beachy resort town has been gathering steam for several years, condo sales have started at a development that's a linchpin of the change. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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The Lincoln Park house where outsider artist Henry Darger lived in 2 rooms for almost 4 decades has sold. Listed for sale April at a little under $2.6 m, it sold Friday for $2.4 m. My April story on the building: www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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In June I showed you this sharp midcentury in Skokie, on the market for 1st time in 68 years, designed by the seller's mom with assistance of an architect. Price was $850,000. Sold yesterday for $765,000, or 90% of original ask. www.chicagobusiness.com/it-hits-mark...

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Vintage Bath of the Week! It's in a 1927 house on Hermitage in Rogers Park that sold this week for $737,000.

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Boka Group restaurateur Kevin Boehm sold a condo on Elm Street for $3.8 million, a loss of about 7% from what he + wife paid for it in 2017. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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Jeannine Dal Pra, longtime co-owner of the Elements design boutique, is selling the Lakeview condo she redid for herself + partner in the early 2000s. The details are exquisite, as you'd expect. Asking just below $1.33 m. www.chicagobusiness.com/it-hits-mark...

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There's not a lot of inventory coming to ease our price crunch, I told host @amyguth.bsky.social on the @crainschicago.bsky.social podcast this week. We also talked about some great properties. www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-daily...

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In 2024, some of the nation's biggest home price growth was in Lake County IL + Kenosha County WI. Prices up 11.1%, more than 95 of 100 metro areas tallied by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Chicago metro: up 7.58%, well above nation's 4.5%. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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Larry Bell, a pioneer of the craft beer movement who built Bell's Brewery into one of the nation's biggest craft breweries, is selling his home in the Southport Corridor. He told me he and wife bought it because it was 4 blocks from Wrigley Field. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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n 2023, we headlined a story of mine, "Can a magazine's splashy rehab save this Hinsdale mansion from demolition?" The answer is no. Demolition permit issued Feb. 13. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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A Palmolive building condo sold for less than what it went for in 2006. Also less than the seller, top executive at Discount Tire, paid for it in 2018. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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At 36th and Dearborn, you can stand where the first Black Catholic church built west of Baltimore was and consider the extraordinary accomplishments of the priest born in slavery who got it built. I talked about Augustus Tolton on @WBEZreset yesterday. www.wbez.org/architecture...

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If you were hoping a big influx of homes for sale would come to rescue us from fast-rising prices, the data say it's not coming. That's 1 of my 5 lessons from the latest housing market data. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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The May 2023 Supreme Court decision that said delinquent property sales are unconstitutional as practiced covered 12 states. Illinois is the 12th of those 12 to consider coming into compliance with the court's decision. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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The May 2023 Supreme Court decision that said delinquent property sales are unconstitutional as practiced covered 12 states. Illinois is the 12th of those 12 to consider coming into compliance with the court's decision. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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One of the original 1930s log cabins in Dune Acres, on the Indiana lakefront, is for sale for 1st time since 1991. It has a really cool gazebo tower and bridge designed by the seller, architect of the American Airlines terminal at O'Hare. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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Derrick Gragg, whose 3 years as Northwestern's Athletic Director were beset by a series of scandals, sold his house in Glenview. (He's still with NU, but in a different post.) www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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The long-delayed redevelopment of a Wicker Park building that was an orphanage and later artists space will start soon, after the people who bought it in 2014 to turn into a gigantic home sold it yesterday. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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The 72nd floor of the One Chicago tower sold for $8.9 million, the highest-priced sale in a building whose top asking price back in 2019 was going to be $28 million. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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A rare Art Moderne house in La Grange Park is for sale for the first time since late 1990s. Builder of about 150 houses in L G P put up many styles, but this one is especially fine. Price: <$1.2 m. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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You've heard her voice, now see her house. Bonnie Herman, who's sung commercial jingles for State Farm, Pizza Hut, United + more, is asking $3.3 m for an Astor Street mansion she bought in 1971. www.chicagobusiness.com/it-hits-mark...

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An IL legislator wants the state to study whether we could end property taxes altogether. I talked about that + other real estate news on the @crainschicago.bsky.social podcast with host @amyguth.bsky.social. www.chicagobusiness.com/crains-daily... .

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Homes are selling at higher prices, but overly ambitious Chi-area sellers who aimed even higher are now cutting their asking prices at a rate we don't typically see until summer. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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Richard M. Daley, the former 6-term Mayor of Chicago, cut the price on his condo on LSD. 2015: bought it for $865,000 2016: renovated it November 2024: listed it for a little over $1.13 m Feb 11: reduced the price to $1.1 m. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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Although the number of Black households in the suburbs is very small, their population has tripled in a year after no gains for several years, Trib reported OTD in 1965.

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A banker who went to jail for trying to buy his way into a job in 1st Trump administration sold his Northfield mansion today. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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If you already saw this, you might like another look, as e've updated it with newer, better photos. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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This 50th-floor condo on Erie Street, on + off market since Oct 2021, took a price cut today that puts the asking price below what sellers paid in May 2004. Bought 5/04: $2,625,000 Listed 10/21: $3,495,000 As of today, asking: $2,395,000

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Ex-White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson sold his home in Flossmoor. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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The guy who bought Michael Jordan's Highland Park estate is offering it for rent for $230,000 for the month of March, quite the March Madness-watching venue. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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The longtime owners of an Old Town Triangle house built shortly after the Great Fire added stained glass, gardens and other nicely crafted details. They're selling, with an asking price just under $1.9 million. www.chicagobusiness.com/it-hits-mark...

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llinois should study whether to give up on property taxes entirely, a bill introduced last week in Springfield says. Fixes have been proposed before but "the system needs a complete overhaul," sponsor told me. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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If you remember the case of the $11,500-a-month squatter in a North Center house, here's the news: now that he's in jail on an unrelated offense and owners regained possession, they've put it up for sale at little under $2.18 million. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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Here's where home prices grew the most in the past 10 years, including pretty Glencoe, gentrification zones like Pilsen and Logan Square, and South Side neighborhoods whose housing was transformed by rehabbers after the foreclosure crisis. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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Chicago needs a homebuilding revolution, David Doig writes in Crain's. "We cannot restore the American Dream if only the top third of households can afford to buy homes. It’s time to solve the housing crisis and the answer is as plain as day: build." www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/opin...

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5 legislative proposals from the statewide real estate industry group aim to ease IL's housing shortage and lost affordability. The 5 incl a tax-exempt down payment savings plan + reducing obstacles to building more housing. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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Carl Thoma, a billionaire with four decades' experience on the Chicago private equity scene, sold a Palmolive condo today at less than half what he paid for it in 2015. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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t's only 35 years old, but there's talk of whether this 65-story tower could be demolished. On @wbez.org's Reset, I talked about how it got to this point + what would be lost, incl a lobby that evokes an era of padded shoulders and dramatic hairstyles. www.wbez.org/architecture...

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Homebuilding firms in late 2024 started the largest number of Chicago-area new-home communities in more than a decade, which could soon help ease the tight inventory that has plagued the housing market. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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Once 11 stories, then 10, proposal for apartment building on Belmont is now 5 stories, @rachelherzog.bsky.social reports. www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-r...

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A million-dollar price cut helped get ex-Bear Nate Davis's Highland Park house sold fast. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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Mike Ditka, who moved with his wife back to Chicago late last year, sold the home in Florida that they built two decades ago. www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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