Recent Albany Park single family home sales

 

Kedzie CTA Brown Line station in Albany Park 4648 N Kedzie, Chicago IL 60625. This strip of Kedzie has slowly churned out retail and residential developments despite it's fantastic proximity to transportation. Homes just east of North Kedzie have higher value than homes west of Kedzie in the Greater Albany Park Community Area. All photos Eric Rojas, Broker, Kale Realty

A client will need to sell her parents long time single family home in Albany Park Community Area. We looked at the immediate comparable sales for the house based on location, condition, current market trends and client goals. I also checked out recent sales in greater Albany Park.

Albany Park single family homes sales January 1st to October 31st.

Brick bungalows in the eastern portion of Albany Park

95 single family homes have sold in Albany Park from January 1st to October 31st, 2024.  The median price this year is $520,000. Over the same period of 2023, 96 single family homes sold with a median price of $518K. Two year sales are as even as you can get in any Chicago community area.

In 2022, 115 single family homes sold with a median price of $550,000. The high amount of closings and high median price are a reflection of the low mortgage interest rates of 2021 and 2022. The low rates were a supercharger especially for relatively affordable neighborhoods further out from the Chicago lakefront.

In 2021, 133 homes sold with a median price of $495,000

Values can swing from eastern Albany Park's Ravenswood Manor neighborhood along the river to the western edge near North Pulaski Road. 

Over the past twelve months 18 homes sold in the smaller area of Albany Park east of Kedzie. The median price of a closed house is $800,000.  90 single family homes closed west of Kedzie with a median price of $465,000.

To buy and sell Albany Park properties and real estate all over the North Side, Loop and near suburbs contact:

Eric Rojas, Broker

Kale Realty

Chicago Real Estate Broker with Kale Realty

Over $100M sold! Have a question... ask Eric!

Kale Realty 2447 N Ashland, Chicago IL 60614 in Lincoln Park

Illinois Licensed Real Estate Broker No. 475.126105

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erojas@kalerealty.com

PH: 773-510-1597

(UPDATE SOLD FOR $515K): Gorgeous Albany Park two-flat, move in ready, asking $499,900

4517 N Sawyer, Chicago IL 60625 asking $499,900. All photos Eric Rojas, Broker, Kale Realty and VHT.com

Check out this great opportunity to own a truly move-in ready two unit building just steps from the CTA Kedzie Brown Line stop! Immaculate two-flat in Albany Park 

4517 N Sawyer Avenue, Chicago IL 60625 asking $499,900 

Take a walk through 3D TOUR

View more photos and MLS information HERE

Wonderful move-in ready building! Inviting 1ST FLOOR unit features TWO BEDROOMS, one bath, entry foyer, separate living room and dining room. Warm, contemporary feel with great character! Fantastic kitchen with dishwasher, huge pantry and bathroom both renovated about five years old. Sunroom/ breakfast room off the kitchen leads to back covered stairway. 

Bright and light 2ND FLOOR unit leased until 3/31/22 for $1,700 (without parking). Features entry foyer with large coat closet, THREE BEDROOMS, one bath, separate living room and dining room. Fully updated kitchen with dishwasher and large pantry. 

Second floor unit is fresh, bright and nicely updated! 

The 30'x 126' lot provides spacious yard and patio for entertaining. 

TWO CAR garage w/ "party door" and ONE exterior parking pad for extra income (3 car parking total).  SEPARATE BOILERS, gas and electric utilities for each unit. Clean basement, apprx 6' 11" to 7ft ceilings with shared laundry room and tons of semi- finished space (once used as in-law living space). Property falls in the new Chicago Accessory Dwelling Unit ordinance pilot area for garden apartments and coach houses. Please refer to the ordinance for due diligence. Well maintained building, various electrical, window and lighting updates over five years with roof approximately 8yrs old. 

Walk the river trail just several blocks from the building.

A+ location just steps from CTA Brown Line, grocery options, amazing restaurants and your corner Starbucks. Minutes to River Park (and awesome river trail), Ravenswood Manor Park, Edison Regional Gifted Elementary (CPS), North Park University, Northeastern Illinois University (with community pool and gym!), Swedish Hospital and Galter Life Center fitness club. This is a beautiful building to call home!

Starbuck's on the corner!

Two blocks to the CTA Brown Line stop

Amazing local food and grocery options!

 

Exclusively listed by:
Eric Rojas, Broker. Kale Realty
2447 N Ashland, Chicago IL 60614
erojas@kalerealty.com

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For Rent! Open House for three bedrooms apartment in Albany Park two-flat, steps to CTA Brown Line $1,500

4517 N Sawyer Apt.2, Chicago IL 60625 asking $1,500 / month. Gorgeous 2nd floor apartment in owner occupied two-flat. 3 beds, 1 bath, tons of storage, free laundry, breakfast room, updated kitchen, huge pantry, awesome yard. Garage parking available for $100.00/ month.  Walk to everything Albany Park location near grocery stores, restaurants, CTA Brown Line, universities, Lincoln Square and more!

Rental Open House -- Sunday October 21st

11am to 1pm

Beautiful wood and vintage detail throughout this super clean building.  Entry foyer with large closet.

Bright, spacious apartment unit.

Updated kitchen with dishwasher! Breakfast bar, new fridge, huge pantry and maple cabinets. 

Wow, awesome shared backyard and optional garage parking spot for $100.00 a month.

Living / dining room.

Large dining room!

Master bedroom has walk-in closet.

Walk-in closet!

MORE PHOTOS and information HERE

Wow! Immaculate 3 beds, 1 bath 2nd floor apartment steps to Kedzie / Kimball Brown Line in Albany Park. Owner occupied two-flat offers single family style living.  Rent $1,500/ mth

Enjoy a terrific shared yard, abundant unit storage and additional GARAGE parking ($100.00/mth). FREE laundry in basement. This apartment is bright and beautiful! Vintage detail with modern updates. Fully equipped kitchen w/maple cabinets, granite counter-tops, DISHWASHER, new fridge, breakfast bar, massive pantry. Master bedroom with 3'x6' walk-in closet. Good sized second bedroom and 3rd bedroom makes awesome office, nursery or bonus room. 

Close to Northeastern University, North Park, Swedish Covenant / Galter Life Center, Edison Regional Gifted (CPS), Noon O Kabob, Andy's(grocery).  SECTION 8 APPLICANTS WELCOME

Tenant pays gas, electric, must have 650 credit, 2.5X monthly rent in gross income and meeting with owner during application process.  Pets negotiable w/ deposit required. Available NOW 

Gorgeous, peaceful home in walk to everything location!

Exclusively listed by

Eric Rojas, Broker

Kale Realty

2447 N Ashland, Chicago IL 60614

773-510-1597

erojas@kalerealty.com

Albany Park flood tunnel completed, River Park improvements creeping forward

River Park field construction coincided with the big flood tunnel dig in Albany Park.

Block Club Chicago reported today on the ribbon cutting of the $70 million Albany Park tunnel to relive river flooding.  River Park was a staging ground for construction the last couple years. The northern end of the park has looked like a disaster.  However,  new baseball and soccer fields along with new tennis courts are on their way. Latest construction update from the 40th Ward office.

The popular lighted tennis courts have been torn up for a long time. I would play here before my teens!

The park itself has a lot of amenities when in full swing.  The new fields and courts will be great.  The pool-house and field house need some attention next.

Clients offer on private home listing in Ravenswood Manor

Typical homes with tidy lawns in Ravenswood Manor (Photo Eric Rojas, Broker, Kale Realty)

Early this week we found a private single family home listing in desirable Ravenswood Manor (Albany Park community area) for our buyer clients. Finding a good house in the budget on Chicago's North Side is not easy! Inventory is relatively low and expensive. We love researching and suggesting any opportunities we can for our buyer clients.  We set up a showing at the house immediately and they've made an offer!

We look forward to bringing this deal together and helping our clients make good economic decisions during the purchase and throughout ownership of their home.  If you are looking to buy a home or condo we may have opportunities the average buyer does not see on real estate web sites.

Lawrence Avenue "Global Garden" an oasis in Albany Park, Ravenswood Manor

GLOBAL GARDEN (from Peterson Garden Project)
Lawrence/Sacramento Location
Albany Park – 33rd Ward
Partnership
North River Commission, Global Gardens Urban Refugee Training Farm, Slow Food Chicago, Seed Savers Exchange
Grow2Give™
Produce will be given to Lincoln Square Friendship Center and First Slice
 

The Global Garden at West Lawrence Avenue and North Sacramento in Albany Park has been up and running for a few years now.  The site cleaned up the "blight" that was a busted condo development adjacent to Ronan Park and the river.  As the saying goes things happen for a reason and this garden trumps a condo development at this particular location for sure. Read about the development of this site at this everyblock thread. 

I stopped by the Global Garden at 2900 W Lawrence, Chicago IL 60625 in the Albany Park / Ravenswood Manor neighborhood earlier this month. Developed by the Peterson Garden Project the large urban garden offers a striking contrast to the Lawrence commercial corridor that's a jumble of independent business success and failure.  However, this strip of Lawrence from North Western Avenue to North Kedzie Avenue is becoming more lively. The garden, to me, acts as an organic anchor promoting the vibrancy of the surrounding community.

The garden was buzzing with activity this late morning in July. The site operates as a food and training resource for refugee families and offers garden plots to neighbors for a $65.00 (or so) fee.

Global Garden community plots. Several neighbors from the green minded Ravenswood Manor community to the south walk over to tend to their little farms. All photos Eric Rojas, Broker, Kale Realty

Living near the garden
Condos with West Lawrence Avenue addresses near the garden site vary form vintage condo conversions around $200K to newer construction condo units over $400,000.  Town houses sit adjacent to the west and look unobstructed over the garden.

Single family homes within a couple blocks of the Global Garden have sold prices ranging from $230,000 for a small foreclosure house at 4836 N Albany, Chicago IL 60625 to $899,000 for 4905 N California; an expanded luxury gut renovation east of the garden.

Fuzzy plans for vacant North Park University lot at Kedzie and Argyle

We drove by the lot in Albany Park on the way to house showings in the North Park neighborhood. All photos Eric Rojas, Broker, Kale Realty

As late as May of this year word on the street is North Park University still does not have concrete plans for the large lot they've cleared at North Kedzie and West Argyle in the east Albany Park neighborhood. 

The lot is located across from the university's newer built Helwig Recreation Center.  Feelers were put out some time ago to develop a parking lot (much needed for University events if not a dream come true for urban planners... wha, whaaa).

Looking North on Kedzie at Argyle.

It'd be nice if they could build up. I don't think a taller parking/ slash residential building will fly at the location. It would probably have to be too tall to accommodate cars. The development may have to be either another school facility or parking lot. The university just completed a new Johnson Center... a student center and science building on campus and they own a lot of apartment units in the area.

North Park campus (All photos Eric Rojas, Broker, Kale Realty)

Home sales in nearby Albany Park/ North Park last 12 months
Roughly 27 single family homes have sold in a four block radius of the vacant lot location on Kedzie and Argyle. The median price of a single family home is about $329,000.  Homes to the east of the lot near North California Avenue are more expensive than homes west of the lot in Albany Park heading towards North Pulaski.

The highest sale in the past 12 months was 2928 West Wilson, Chicago IL 60625 for $575,000.  The home located in Ravenswood Manor southeast of North Park University sits on a 43' wide lot and needed renovation at the time of purchase.

The lowest priced single family home sale was 3347 West Eastwood, Chicago IL 60625 for $219,000. The small frame bungalow sits close to the Kimball and Kedzie CTA train stops and North Kedzie retail and restaurants. A pretty good deal sold in multiple offers.

Street life on West Foster across from the North Park University campus

Progress in Albany Park's development with "P-Streets"

StreetsBlog Chicago wrote a good piece about P-Streets and development in the 33rd Ward's portion of the Albany Park Community Area.

 Our client bought a twat o-flat 4517 N Sawyer Chicago, 60625 earlier this year for $375,000 in a multiple offer situation.  The property is in excellent condition and located just around the corner from the bustling Wilson and Kedzie Starbucks, the Kedzie CTA Brown Line stop, popular Noon-a-Kabob, Andy's Fruit Ranch and more.  The home is located just west of Ravenswood Manor and the river in Albany Park.

I've lived in Albany Park in the past and have written about buyers, listings and the market there from time to time. The eastern part of Albany Park around North Kedzie between West Montrose and West Lawrence had always, to me, a lot of development potential.  Start with the fact there are two CTA Brown Line stops at Kedzie and Kimball.  There is a lot of density with multi-units and the potential for many more housing units along Kedzie.

A long time Starbucks anchors the corner of Wilson and Kezie

Here is a list of five reasons to live in northeast Albany Park I wrote some time ago.  These and many other reasons remain the same.  With developments and designations such as P-Streets, long time business owners investing and the continual push in Chicago north and west for land to develop... this busy and diverse commercial area could see it's next bump in real estate values.

Sold! Client buys two-flat in great Albany Park location

 A fantastic repeat client of ours was done with high-rise living.  He wanted a yard for his babies... two cute dogs.  He decided being an owner operator of a multi-unit building would be a great way to get a good location, a yard, garage and basement while keeping the mortgage payment low.

 He bought 4517 N Sawyer, Chicago 60625 for an amazing deal of $375,000 in a multiple offer situation.  The property is in excellent condition and is located just around the corner from the bustling Wilson and Kedzie Starbucks, the Kedzie CTA Brown Line stop, popular Noon-a-Kabob, Andy's Fruit Ranch and more.  The home is located just west of Ravenswood Manor and the river.

Congrats to our client on his new home!  You are HERE

CONDO FOR RENT $1,600: 3653 W Leland #1E, huge three bedrooms +den, three full baths, parking, laundry room

Immediate Occupancy. Please call Eric Rojas/ Robert DePalma 773-687-4646 ONLY with name, contact number, move-in availability. NO EMAIL INQUIRIES WILL BE RETURNED.

3653 West Leland #1E For Rent $1,600 a month

Great Albany Park deal on huge home. Duplex down with great light on lower level. Huge windows. Check out the photos! Close to CTA Brown Line, groceries and steps to many amenities.

Three Bedrooms
Three Full Baths
Gated Parking Space Included
Den/Office
Family Room
Two En-suite Bedrooms
Updated, Open Kitchen with Dishwasher
Laundry Room, Utility Room.
DECK

Central AC and heat

**This is a condo rental. Pets negotiable, limit 2. One month's rent security deposit. NO EMAIL INQUIRIES. RENTER PAYS CREDIT/BACKGROUND CHECK $30-$60 upon approved application** Real Estate Brokers represent the owner and will present all required renter/tenant documentation and disclosures to all parties. 1 year lease or more preferred.