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DealEstate

  1. How the desire for walkable neighborhoods impacts cities, home values and you: our topic on @848 Monday morning. Join us! Listen + call in.
  2. Here's the house where I'm spending the weekend (in my dreams): bit.ly/L3nHh2
  3. Have a question about Chi real estate (great neighborhoods, foreclosure issues, etc)? Ask me: dennis@rodkin.com. Answers post on Tuesdays.
  4. IL has 3rd-highest proportion of foreclosed homes. (Foreclosures as as percentage of all mortgaged homes) bit.ly/LPOpZT
  5. On the new term 'Ridiculisting': RT @monicachilds: @DealEstate Love it too! Very appropriate for some North Shore homes!
  6. This new $4.5 m Lincoln Park house won't be mistaken for vintage, but it does a lot of era-switching. Come on my tour: chi.mg/N14Gkc
  7. I just shared my cynicism on the $32 m Trump condo w/Judy Pielach for her news reports on @WGNRadio. Listen for it all day.
  8. Love it! We have a new bit of vocabulary! RT @DalyDonnellan: @DealEstate Ridiculisting ?
  9. I need a term to describe prices set high just to grab headlines. (Michael Jordan in Highland Park comes to mind.) Anyone?
  10. Also, the ask is $2,244 a square foot unfinished. On lower floors, selling at under $1,500/foot. That's a big premium to pay for the view.
  11. Trump's 89th floor could be more feet off the ground than those higher Hancock floors, but the description is a bit of a cheat, isn't it?
  12. About that $32m Trump condo: listing says "highest residence in western hemisphere' for 89th fl. At Hancock, you can live on 92nd floor.
  13. Stratiospheric new listing: 89th floor of Trump, for $32 million. 14,200 square feet, never yet occupied. bit.ly/KXXMFZ
  14. Oprah's $2.8 m loss/somebody's gain. RT @CRED_by_Crains: Oprah-owned co-op unit in Streeterville under contract ow.ly/bgMRg