Chicago Illinois Real Estate Blog

A lawyer and his wife, a manager at Motorola, have bought a home in south Barrington.
Christopher and Shilpa Dely bought the five-bedroom, 3.5-bath home at 312 Eastern Ave. for $517,000 on July 12.
Prior owner Kathy Segall, with Alan Segall, bought the home for $222,500 in 1993; she took full control of the home four years [...]

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Jonathan Jungk and Brooke Damery bought a four-bedroom, 2.5-bath home at 722 Clarendon Lane in Aurora from Christian and Crystal Kolodziej for $323,000 on June 15.
The Kolodziejs paid $320,000 for the property in Sept. 2008. The 2,133-square-foot home in Fox Valley Villages was built in 1993. It is located in the Oakhurst subdivision.
Jungk is an [...]

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Ilana Libman and Scott Elsworth bought a three-bath home at 1829 N. Larrabee St. in Lincoln Park from Chicago Title Land Trust Co. for $1.3 million on May 28.
The two-story home was built in 1984. It is located in the Lincoln Central subdivision.
Elsworth is an attorney at Steven B. Pearlman & Associates as well as [...]

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Donald M. Thompson is licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Illinois, U. S. District Court in Chicago, U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, and the U.S. Tax Court. He is a member of the Federal Trial Bar. He is a 1966 graduate of the University of Chicago Law [...]

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Smita Mokshagundam has listed for sale a three-bedroom, 2.5-bath home at 1271 N. Marion Court in Wicker Park for $599,900.
Mokshagundam and Matthew Neugebaue paid $520,000 for the property in Nov. 2005. The 2,400-square-foot house was built in 2001. Jennifer Mills of Koenig and Strey Real Estate is the listing agent.
Mokshagundam is an [...]

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Scott J. Kofkin and Sandra R. Kofkin have listed for sale a four-bedroom, 3.1-bath home at 465 Parkchester Road in Buffalo Grove for $445,500.
David Schwabe of RE/MAX Unlimited Northwest is the agent for the listing. The 3,216-square-foot home was built in 1991 in the Parkchester subdivision.
Mr. Kofkin is a partner at Kofkin, Springer, Scheinbaum & [...]

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Bruce Miller of Jones Lang LaSalle will kick things off at the 8th Annual Commercial Real Estate Forecast Conference with an entertaining and informative 20-minute overview on the state of global, national and local commercial real estate capital markets and what is going to take to turn it around.
Miller is one of more than 50 [...]

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Leonard F. Sacks has listed for sale a four-bedroom, 3.5-bath home at 1535 W. Jackson Blvd. in the Near West Side for $975,000.
Sacks paid $675,000 for the property in Dec. 2003. The 2,923-square-foot house built in 1893. Mario Greco of Prudential Rubloff Properties is the listing agent for the home.
Sacks is a managing partner at [...]

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The average fixed-rate for a 30-year mortgage climbed above 5 percent for the first time in two months, leading to a decline in mortgage applications.
The average fixed rate on a 30-year mortgage was 5.05 percent this week, up from 4.94 percent last week, Freddie Mac said Thursday. The last time rates were above 5 percent [...]

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Local bar and grill chain Boston Blackies is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors after an ambitious expansion plan that was fried by the recession.
Boston Blackies Management Co., which has eight locations in the Chicago area, list debts of $6.4 million against assets of about $17,000, according to a petition filed Nov. 24 in [...]

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