With the Spring market beginning in just a couple of weeks, everyone is just trying to figure it all out. Right now, there’s a strange and dizzying combination in Chicago of low inventory for eager buyers in some sub-markets - and high inventory with eager sellers in other sub-markets. A few sub-markets have a nice happy equilibrium with everyone dancing around the maypole.
In this type of environment, I have encountered nothing but strange and dizzying offers, with sellers and buyers both becoming easily offended, using uniquely wonderful expletives I have not encountered in years.
Although you can yell and scream with me as much as you want, please don’t become offended by the offer - or counter-offer - of the buyer or seller on the other side. Everyone is just trying to ascertain and exercise their negotiating power so they can buy or sell a home. The other side is not necessarily an evil diabolical dictator aiming to conquer earth for their own pleasure. Though, I suppose they could be.
No matter what, I’m here to help you toughen your skin and figure it all out.
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Chicago International Puppet Festival
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Can't get enough of marionettes? You'll love the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, which brings puppeteers from across the globe to the city for 12 days of symposiums and more than 100 performances and events. This year marks the festival’s first-ever establishment of a “puppet hub,” which includes site-specific events throughout different spaces in the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue—take a look around to find everything from a puppet-themed cafe to film screenings in the building’s massive Studebaker Theater. Outside the hub, find productions like a puppet rendition of Hamlet at The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center and a free touring production of My Night in the Planetarium. For a full list of performances, visit the festival’s website.
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Open wide! Chicago Restaurant Week is back for its 16th year. More than 330 Chicagoland eateries will offer specially curated prix fixe menus for brunch ($25), lunch ($25) or dinner ($42/$59) between January 20 and February 5. With more than two weeks to chow down, there's plenty of time to make a few reservations and check out some of the best restaurants in Chicago.
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6 Bed | 4.1 Bath Lakeview
A great house with an enormous side yard, totally unheard of in the city!
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4 Bed | 4.2 Bath Gold Coast
Award-winning greystone - an oasis in the heart of the Gold Coast
Offered at $2,250,000
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1040 N. Lake Shore Dr, #4D
3 Bed | 2.1 Bath Gold Coast
Completely redesigned home is truly a one-of-a-kind work of art
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680 N. Lake Shore Dr, #2300
2 Bed | 1.1 Bath Streeterville
Full-floor Tower residence with 360-degree lake and City views
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900 N. Lake Shore Dr, #1109
3 Bed | 2.1 Bath Streeterville
Finest renovation of a Mies van der Rohe residence in Chicago
Offered at $949,000
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900 N. Lake Shore Dr, #603
3 Bed | 2.1 Bath Streeterville
Expansive combined residence, perfect for living and entertaining
Offered at $849,000
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5 Bed | 3 Bath in 2-4 Units Bucktown
Charming workman's cottage home on one of the best blocks of Leavitt
Offered at $699,000
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2 Bed | 1.1 Bath Near North Side
2-story mid-century home with an enormous private terrace
Offered at $619,000
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1829-1831-1833 W. Berenice Ave.
8 Bed | 4.2 Bath each North Center
Perfect armchair investment: 3 new construction two-flats, each with 2 duplexes.
To be offered at $5,220,000
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840 N. Lake Shore Dr, #1703
3 Bed | 2.1 Bath Streeterville
Luxurious living with views of the lake, park & city.
To be offered at $2,195,000
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2 Bed | 2 Bath East Lakeview
Gorgeous pre-war residence in one of Lakeview's most prized buildings.
To be offered at $449,000
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Modern. Vintage. Architectural. Cool.
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And everything in between.
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Check out previous "Into the Weekends" here.
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