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Driving Around Wicker Park

Cruising around Wicker Park on Thursday, I felt that I needed to finally check out Alex Pearsall’s zero-net energy home.  This former multi-family, mixed-use building was featured on greenbeanchicago.com as a revolutionary concept home and was completed less than a year ago.  This 9,000 square foot home in its former life was the former hang-out [...]

This North Shore Mansion Is Chicago Real Estate Reverie

Le Grand Reve, or ‘the Big Dream’ is a north shore home now privately on the market for an astonishing $32 million.  West of Winnetka, Chicagoland home buyers have a chance to buy one of the priciest homes on the market nationwide.  According to Dennis Rodkin of the Chicagomag.com’s Deal Estate, the approximately 17,000 square [...]

Prairie District Lofts In The South Loop

While preserving a relic of Chicago’s industrial past and re-creating loft-style living in the south loop, Prairie District Lofts provides buyers with an excellent opportunity to live in this emerging neighborhood Located near great ethnic areas such as Chinatown, Little Italy and Greektown, the dining and entertainment options are as vast as they are diverse. [...]

Social Media Networks Continue Massive Growth Trend in 2009

mRELEVANCE, an internet marketing and social media company, has preached and provided its expertise to builders and real estate professional in effectively using social media to help boost their online presence.  More than simply setting up a Facebook page, effective internet marketing requires an integrated approach tying the website, blog and social media together. So it comes as [...]

The Emerson In Mount Prospect

Located in downtown Mount Prospect, The Emerson is a new condominium duplex building featuring 52 condominium homes on four floors of a 5 story building.  Built by Norwood Builders, the development has many duplex floor plans available as well as same-floor layouts.  The building consists of reinforced masonry construction with 12” concrete floor slabs. The [...]