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Ideal Location Chicago Real Estate, LLC  in partnership with Buyers Utopia is now offering all their clients mobile searches. Clients with iPhones & Android based smart phones now will be able to get “on the go” real estate searches in the Chicago metro area.  The mobile site is a great way for real estate buyers to stay connected.  Clients can log in with their social media accounts using Google, Yahoo or Facebook credentials to make access fast & easy.
Say’s Managing Broker, Eli Schultz, “The mobile web may still be in …

In today’s Real Estate Market many buyers are taking advantage of builders who purchased land and started to develop property right before the bubble burst. Purchasers in Chicago and the Suburbs are finding spec homes and condos under the price of what it costs the builders to actually build today. In the height of the McMansion boom, builders where running wild, buying tear-downs, and speculating on the Real Estate Market.  Now these builders are working with their banks to move the houses or just walking away from the projects. Some house …

By: Eli Schultz
Wicker Park property boasts a diverse stock of building styles and price ranges.  The broad variety of condominiums in the area range from rehabbed and vintage lofts, classic walk-ups, and new construction mid-rises and three-flats.  The selection of single-family homes also ranges from up-scale new construction hitting the multi-million dollar mark, to older cottages that are often targets for tear-downs and gut-rehabs.  The Wicker Park neighborhood also features an assortment of 19th century mansions with hefty price tags but sought after for their charm and intricate architectural detail.   
 A …

By: Eli Schultz
Today, the West Loop is among Chicago’s most desirable neighborhoods for well-to-do young urban professionals, given its proximity and access to the Loop. West Loop real estate for sale runs at an average sales price of around $310,000, with many new and rehabbed units available along Madison Street and Washington Blvd. The median sale price for a one-bedroom condo is around $267,000.  Prices for a two-bedroom unit average at around $370,000.  Detached single-family homes in the West Loop Real Estate market are far more expensive reaching on average $850,000 …

By: Eli Schultz
The South Loop has been recognized as one of Chicago’s most up-and-coming and globally unique neighborhoods. The area has done particularly well in tune with overall changes in lifestyle preference, as more and more people look to live closer to their place of work. Located just south of Chicago’s downtown business core, the South Loop has much to offer in the way of properties and modern housing.
As Chicago’s fastest expanding neighborhood, living costs in the South Loop are high but reasonable compared to other high-end parts of the …

Investment Opportunities in Oak Park Real Estate The old saw, “location, location, location” has kept Oak Park property values strong and stable, and with green concerns and energy costs, continues to provide a leading edge for this community that is centrally situated between urban downtown Chicago and the Far West suburbs. Vacancy rates in Oak Park investment property remain consistently low; interest in redevelopment remains high. Many opportunities exist in the multiple commercial and business districts as well as in the residential sectors.
Ideal Location Chicago Real Estate’s broker Eli Schultz, …

Influenced by the Prairie Style, builders constructed American Foursquare houses in Oak Park in the twentieth century. These houses have roomy interiors and share many features with the Prairie style homes.  They can be found in all the Oak Park neighborhoods. Often they have been dressed up by borrowing elements from Queen Anne, Mission, or Craftsman architectural features.  In Oak Park, “foursquares” come in brick, stone, stucco, and wood siding. Many wood-sided foursquares display the original narrow horizontals and trim that the Prairie architects used and homeowners have painted the …

When the arts and crafts movement hit the Midwest in the late nineteenth century, it dramatically influenced architecture, interior design, and home furnishings. Elements of the original arts and crafts ideal surface in Oak Park property in its neighborhood houses, and in contemporary arts and crafts designers, restorers, and antique arts and crafts dealers. Craftsman houses are known for the interior built-ins, including cabinets, shelves and seating, superior carpentry, lots of lead-glass and stained glass windows, and dark wood wainscoting and moldings. Many craftsman houses have beamed ceilings and open …

When the Gunderson Brothers built houses in Oak Park more than one hundred years ago, they had families in mind: lots of spacious bedrooms and dining and living spaces for get-togethers and gatherings.  The Gundersons wanted the best quality and hired an architect, Frank Osborn De Money to design the homes. They even brought craftsmen from Norway to build the houses. These were going to be homes that were comfortable and built to last. Several hundred houses in the Prairie-style dotted Oak Park properties and are now designated as Oak …

One of America’s greatest architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, began designing homes in Oak Park in 1889. Radically new in conception, the Prairie Style Homes designed by Wright featured low horizontal lines, open floor plans, and clerestory windows; they fit the landscape and the exterior brick and stucco in earth tones were a dramatic contrast to Victorian frame houses. Wright worked with other architects including Richard Bock, William Eugene Drummond, Marion Mahony Griffin, Walter Burley Griffin. Other architects in the Prairie- Style School—George W. Maher, John Van Bergen, and E.E. Roberts …