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I know what you're thinking, hockey fans: "What do we do for the next four months?" Maybe you've heard tales of a little place on the North Side, located about five miles north-northeast of the United Center, where grown men play games -- games with sticks! -- and everyone seems to have a good time, even when the te

Yesterday afternoon I received an e-mail from CondoShark.com's Matt Garrison focusing on two topics: the types of buyers who are active in the post-tax credit world, and neighborhoods that are conti

A Lake Shore Drive address in the Gold Coast rarely comes cheap (unless you're buying at auction this weekend, perhaps), but it's especially pricey when you're looking for one of the Drive's rare single-family homes. The 115-year-old home at

You don't see a lot of Chicago home sales make national headlines, but all sorts of news outlets are carrying stories this morning about the sale of Bill and Jacky Grimshaw's 6,000 square-foot house in Kenwood.

Honestly, the news has more to do with the property's neighbor than the property itself -- Barack and Michelle Obama own the home next door.

With the help of Realtor (and

You know that Matt Garrison tracks big price reductions on condos and single-family homes at CondoShark.com. But did you know he also keeps an eye on multi-unit buildings? Here are all of the two-, three-, and four-flats in

By mid-2009, Max knew his search for distressed properties wasn't going as planned.

"I was working with an agent for a while and wasn't seeing anything compelling -- it felt like we just weren't on the same page," he says. "So even

The size and pace of price reductions among 1400 Lake Shore Drive's resales haven't made things any easier for RDM Development, which still has about 80 units of its own sitting on the books. That's probably why RDM decided to g

Matt Garrison's ShoreShark.com tracks price reductions, short sales, and foreclosures in eight northern suburbs: Deerfield, Glencoe, Glenview, Highland