Platt Park Records Smashed in 2021! In my 20-years of tracking the Platt Park real estate market I’ve never seen a year like this. New records were set in virtually every category attesting to the continued high demand for our neighborhood. Here are some highlights: 56 homes sold for more than a million dollars. Almost… [Read More]
Platt Park Covid-19 Neighborhood Update
Platt Park Covid-19 Neighborhood Update, as of July 2020 Covid-19 edition part deux. In case you haven’t noticed that darn pandemic is still hanging around–not that you’d know if you swung by Washington Park to join a sweaty basketball game or wanted to jump in on a little volleyball action—looks a bit ‘life as… [Read More]
Platt Park and Washington Park Neighborhood Update
Here’s a little Platt Park and Washington Park Neighborhood Update Covid-19 thoughts. In my fifteen-plus years of writing this column there has certainly never been such a time like this in our nation and in Platt Park or Washington Park. Hoping by the time you are reading this life has taken a step back towards… [Read More]
Washington Park Real Estate 2019 Review
Washington Park Real Estate 2019 Review How’d we do in 2019? With the year coming quickly to an end, thought it time to do our annual year-end review of the Washington Park housing market. After a seven-year run of an extraordinary strong seller’s market, crazy bidding wars and ever limited inventory the market in 2019… [Read More]
Broadway and Mississippi, Big Changes Coming
For 100 years, Broadway and Mississippi had been dominated by the Gates Rubber Factory and the Ford Motor Company which produced Model Ts back around the turn of the previous century. Platt Park to the southeast was something of a company town for nearly a century, with a sizable portion of residents working for the… [Read More]