Celebrity Real Estate
Chicago TV reporter Sarah Schulte reduces the asking price of her condo in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood to $659,900; also, Naperville, IL gets its highest listing ever at $5.19M
By Bob Goldsborough at 3 August, 2010, 9:52 pm
Check out Bob’s July 25 weekly real-estate column in the Chicago Tribune, where Bob breaks the news of Chicago TV reporter Sarah Schulte cutting the asking price of her condominium unit in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood to $659,900. Also featured: Bob exclusively reports on a 19-room, French Provincial-style house at 1164 Shamrock Court in Naperville, [...]
Read More >>Chicago billionaire Nicholas Pritzker lists his 45-acre lakefront estate in Covert, MI for $4.95M
By Bob Goldsborough at 20 July, 2010, 11:18 pm
Check out Bob’s exclusive breaking-news alert that ran on the Chicago Tribune’s “Breaking Business” website today that broke the story of Nicholas Pritzker of Chicago’s (highly secretive) billionaire Pritzker family listing his 45-acre estate in Covert, Mich. — complete with a 7,325-square-foot, contemporary-style mansion and 425 feet of frontage along Lake Michigan — for $4,950,000.
Read More >>Former Chicago Bulls (and current Charlotte Bobcats) forward Tyrus Thomas lists his town home in Northbrook, Ill. for $499,900 and sells a 2BR condo in the town for $254K
By Bob Goldsborough at 16 July, 2010, 12:37 am
Check out Bob’s weekly real-estate column in this coming Sunday’s Chicago Tribune (available online now), where Bob breaks the news of the newest $40 million man, former Chicago Bulls (and current Charlotte Bobcats) forward Tyrus Thomas, winding down his Chicago-area residential real estate by recently listing his town home in Northbrook, Ill. for $499,900 and [...]
Read More >>Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng lists his town home in Northbrook, IL for $639K
By Bob Goldsborough at 16 July, 2010, 12:27 am
Check out Bob’s weekly column in this past Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, where he broke the news of Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng listing his town home in Northbrook, Ill. for $639,000. Also featured: Bob exclusively reports an update from a previous column about Chicago morning TV anchor Mike North: now, North has reduced his asking [...]
Read More >>Chicago TV reporter Leah Hope has her Chicago condo under contract after it was listed for $549K; meanwhile former WLS-TV political reporter Andy Shaw cuts the asking price of his B&B in Chicago from $3M to $2.85M
By Bob Goldsborough at 6 July, 2010, 10:56 pm
Check out Bob’s real estate column in the Chicago Tribune from this past Sunday, where he broke the news of current WLS-TV reporter Leah Hope having her three-bedroom, Chicago condo under contract to sell after it was listed for $549,000. Also featured: Bob reports on former WLS-TV political reporter Andy Shaw, who now heads the [...]
Read More >>Former Chicago Bear Marty Booker sells his condo unit in Chicago's West Loop for $465K; he also reduces his asking price for his 13-room house in Grayslake, IL to $430K
By Bob Goldsborough at 6 July, 2010, 10:46 pm
Check out Bob’s real estate column in the Chicago Tribune from June 27, where he broke the news of former Chicago Bear (and current free agent) Marty Booker selling his condo unit in Chicago’s West Loop for $465,000 and also cutting his asking price of his 13-room house in far north suburban Grayslake, Ill. from [...]
Read More >>Hilary Duff pays $3.85M for a house in the Summit, high above Beverly Hills, CA
By Bob Goldsborough at 2 July, 2010, 4:40 pm
Young actress and singer Hilary Duff has paid $3,850,000 for a five-bedroom, 5,260-square-foot Georgian Colonial-style house in the once-and-again-celebrity-filled Summit neighborhood in Los Angeles County, high above Beverly Hills. As plenty of others have reported recently, the recently engaged Duff, 22, made the purchase several weeks ago through money manager Scott Feinstein and through her [...]
Read More >>Major-league pitcher Neal Cotts sells his condo in Chicago's River North area for $307K; former Tribune Co. chairman and CEO pays $2.625M for a penthouse condo on Chicago's Gold Coast; actor Vince Vaughn finds a renter for a Chicago town home at $7K/month
By Bob Goldsborough at 18 June, 2010, 10:52 am
Check out Bob’s Sunday real estate column in the Chicago Tribune (available online now), where he breaks the news of former Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs pitcher Neal Cotts taking a big loss on his condominium unit in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, which he just sold for $307,000 after paying $375,000 for it in [...]
Read More >>Phoenix Coyotes defenseman Adrian Aucoin has his house in Hinsdale, IL for sale for $1.995M
By Bob Goldsborough at 15 June, 2010, 12:11 am
Check out Bob’s weekly column in this past Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, where he broke the news of Phoenix Coyotes defenseman (and former Chicago Blackhawk) Adrian Aucoin having his house in Hinsdale, Ill., a Chicago suburb, on the market for $1,995,000, after previously having listed it in February for $2,099,000. Also featured: Bob reports on Chicago [...]
Read More >>Chicago sportscaster Bruce Wolf moves to a farm after selling a town home in Deerfield, IL for $365K
By Bob Goldsborough at 9 June, 2010, 4:09 pm
Check out Bob’s weekly column in this past Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, where he broke the news of Chicago sportscaster Bruce Wolf selling his town home in Deerfield, Ill. at a huge loss (he bought it for $550,000 and 2007 and sold it in 2010 for $365,000) and moving to a farm in tiny Old Mill [...]
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