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7/26/2021 Prominent Developer Pitches 26-Story High-Rise For Fulton Market—Block Club Chicago

Yet another builder has proposed apartments for a previously off-limits part of the West Loop.
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7/26/2021 REAL ESTATE MATTERS: Condo resident seeks insurance advice on water damage from upstairs—Herald-Tribune

Q: I live in a building with six condos in Chicago. Recently, the hot water tank from my upstairs neighbor broke and water leaked from his unit into my unit.
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7/20/2021 Crain’s Headlines: City Shuts Down Condo Parking Garage—WTTW

A Gold Coast parking garage long in need of repairs is being shut down by the city in the wake of the condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida.
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7/20/2021 Condo Adviser: In light of the Surfside collapse, how should condo associations handle building infrastructure?—Chicago Tribune

Q. In light of the recent condominium building collapse in Florida, as a board member of a Chicago condominium association, how should our board of directors be dealing with our building infrastructure?
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7/20/2021 Small interventions in this Chicago condo punch above their weight—The Architect's Newspaper

On paper, New Office is quite new.
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7/20/2021 Withdrawn Park Ridge condo proposal could lead to density limits on 55-plus developments—Chicago Tribune

Plans for a 22-unit condo building in Park Ridge’s South Park neighborhood, aimed at residents over age 55, were recently withdrawn, but the development’s proposal could lead to limits on the number of residential units allowed inside such buildings in the future.
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7/8/2021 After Florida Collapse, a Look at Condo Building Safety in Chicago—WTTW

Crews are still working to locate residents who aren’t accounted for following the deadly collapse of a condo building in Surfside, Florida.
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7/8/2021 Chicago Police Post Warning Fliers About Troubled Rentals In West Town—CBS News Chicago

Shut it down. That is the message from a North Side alderman regarding a trouble Airbnb rental.
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7/6/2021 Attorney Nicholas Bartzen discusses condo association liability—WGN Radio

Condo and HOA legal expert Nicholas Bartzen, of Altus Legal LLC, joins the Karen Conti Show discussing liability for the Surfside collapse in Miami, FL and the duty of homeowners associations to make decisions about repairs.
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7/6/2021 Own a condo? Here’s what you should know about building safety after Surfside.—The Washington Post

The wreckage of Champlain Towers South, reduced last week to a tangled jumble of steel and concrete, has worried residents of other multistory buildings who want assurances that their homes are safe.
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7/6/2021 Single-family homes scarce in Chicago’s red-hot market —Loop North News

Chicago’s red-hot spring housing market is continuing to roll into summer despite lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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7/6/2021 Condos Are in Uncharted Territory—Slate

The cracks in the concrete suddenly feel like chasms.
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6/29/2021 Cook County Sheriff's Office investigating after boy, 4, pulled from Northbrook pond dies—ABC News 7

A death investigation continued early Tuesday morning after a young boy fell into a retention pond Monday near the Mission Hills complex in Northbrook, and later died.
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6/25/2021 3 Chicagoans missing in Florida condo collapse in Surfside near Miami—ABC 7 Chicago

Three Chicago residents are among the 99 people unaccounted for after a condo building collapsed early Thursday morning in Surfside, Florida.
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6/24/2021 Vladimir Radutny Makes His Mark on Chicago—One Mies Apartment at a Time—Metropolis

“Living and working in Mies’ buildings has had a lot of influence on me,” says Vladimir Radutny, reflecting on the several apartments he’s renovated in the German-American architect’s Chicago towers, from the twin steel towers of 860–880 Lake Shore Drive to the two concrete structures of 900–910 completed in 1957.
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6/24/2021 Printer’s Row Residents Complain Of Unbearable Cooling Fan Noise From Digital Company Getting Even Worse In Summer—CBS 2 Chicago

Printer’s Row residents call it unbearable.
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6/24/2021 Homes That Heal—Mansion Global

When Fred Wilson and his wife Elissa Morgante, co-founders of Morgante Wilson Architects in Chicago, look out their window, they see far more than a glimpse of Lake Michigan.
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6/22/2021 ‘Make Me Move’: Sellers Are Listing Their Homes at Ridiculous Prices Just to See What Happens—Money

When Daniel Penzing’s real estate agent suggested a $345,000 price tag for his Chicago condo, he balked at the number.
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6/21/2021 Lendlease condos The Reed and Cirrus offer next-door rentals during construction—Chicago Agent Magazine

Here’s the dilemma: You’ve bought your pre-construction condo, but what do you do until it’s ready to be occupied?
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6/16/2021 Downtown condo market heats up as city reopens—The Real Deal Chicago

Downtown Chicago’s condo market is as hot as the weather these days, as buyers return to the reopening city.
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