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This new community near Palatine boasts a beautiful countryside location nestled between Randall Road and Route 47, convenient to everything the area has to offer: shopping, tour-caliber golf at The Golf Club of Illinois, forest preserves, recreational areas, bike paths and more.

The exclusively new collection of townhomes offer extra-wide floorplans and are designed to look and feel like a single-family homes, except it is at a better price.

Four distinct two-story floorplans are available, featuring two or three bedrooms, 1½ baths, and up to 1,900 square feet of luxurious living space.

This is located in Lake In the Hills.

Condominium Model Debuts at Turnberry in Buffalo Grove

Palatine-based Concord Homes has announced the grand opening of a decorated model at Turnberry, a new mid-rise condominium community in Buffalo Grove.

The Palatine company recently announced the grand opening of a decorated model at Turnberry, a new mid-rise condominium community in Buffalo Grove.

Located on Buffalo Grove Road just north of Lake Cook Road, Turnberry comprises two five-story buildings, offering 52 and 48 homes. Buyers can choose from 13 one- and two-bedroom floor plans that range in size from 1,039 to 2,128 square feet, with one to two bedrooms and 1½ to 2½ baths. Homes are base-priced from $251,400 to $499,900 and include one parking space in a heated, underground garage.

Buffalo Grove was listed as one of the top suburbs to live in the Chicago area in the March 2003 issue of Chicago Magazine. Nearby shopping includes a Jewel, Dominick’s, Wal-Mart, Target and Sam’s Club. Local restaurants are Lou Malnati’s, Winberie’s, and Outback Steakhouse, plus those located along Milwaukee Avenue.

All Turnberry buyers will receive one-on-one assistance from Concord Homes’ team of professional designers to personalize their home. Buyers will visit Concord’s exclusive Wheeling-based Design Studio to make all upgrade and interior finish selections from name-brand manufacturers.

St. Charles real estate-residential homes and listings for sale.
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The dormant St. Charles Mall property, leveled almost two years ago after standing empty for seven years, still might sprout new shopping centers for the area.

Officials of Shodeen Management said this week that they are readying a presentation to the city to develop the vacant 24-acre site, near Randall Road and Route 38.

The company’s plan tentatively calls for a combination of stores and homes to be built on the land, which is east of the Jewel-Osco store and north of Route 38 (Lincoln Highway). The development would be called The Centre of St. Charles and ultimately could total more than 100,000 square feet devoted to stores. This can bring much tax dollars into the area.

“It’s in development for the first retail spaces,” Shodeen Management Vice President Doug Summers said, adding that no date has been set for a city presentation.

Schaumburg, Ill real estate-Schaumburg residential mls listings and information.
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DK Realty Partners, LLC announced today the negotiated sale of the Railway Plaza Professional Building located at 507 Fairway Drive, Naperville, IL. The transaction consisting of a three-year-old 9081 square foot free standing brick building, and an attached 43,528 square foot land parcel sold for $1.25 million. The land parcel is part of a large PUD consisting of two retail centers, a childcare center and an upscale, free standing restaurant.

Residential Naperville real estate
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K Realty Partners recently announced the closed sale of of their Naperville, Ill. Railway Plaza Professional Building .

The commercial real estate aqcuisition is near near the Train Station and Highways for easy access to highways. Officials of the ocmpany states that the real estate parcel is perfectly situated near residential communities with plenty of commercial and retail shopping nearby.

A recent study of the corridor thru Palatine, Illinois was commissioned ot determine what industries would best fit best along Northwest Highway. The village will be doing a market study on four specific areas along the road to determine what sections might be ripe for development.

Key issues are tax implications and the impact on residential real estate as well as the efficacy of commercial real estate developed along the Palatine corridor.

The Tribune recently ran a story on what cannot be called anything else than payola for newly hired Chicago area officials when they take a job.

They get toys yes, but low or no-interest home loans.

The Northbrook village what equated to $50,000 in free loan money.
A Wilmette village manager received an interest-free loan for $165,000.

An Evanston City manager gets a $200,000 equity loan, free until the home is sold.

North Shore communities, where homes can easily cost twice that amount, they offer some of the area’s bigger housing loans.

In Chicago, police officers get forgivable $5,000 loans for housing assistance

Village manager of Wilmette, received $165,000 to help buy his $585,000 three-bedroom home in 2001. Earl, who makes $133,000 a year, will have to repay that amount, interest-free, if he leaves the job.

The payoffs go on and on. An assistant city manager of Naperville if she hadn’t been offered the $200,000 equity loan, which Evanston will get back whenever she sells.