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Two days later, the three-bedroom bungalow on Kildare Avenue went under contract to a buyer who in late March paid $235,000. That s a sale at 18 percent over the original asking price, $199,000, after just five days on the market.
The real estate market has been moving fast the past several months, fueled by low interest rates and pandemic-related lifestyle changes, but no place has been as fast as the city s West Lawn neighborhood.
Houses in the neighborhood, south of 59th Street and east of Midway Airport, sold in an average of 36 days in the first three months of the year, according to data released mid-April by the Chicago Association of Realtors and Midwest Real Estate Data.
When Missy and Bart Goldberg bought the house in 2008 for $550,000, “it was a classic grand old home on a corner,” Bart Goldberg said, but the second floor had decades earlier been cut up into apartments, and the building needed updating.
Tearing it down was a possibility but not one they considered seriously. “We couldn’t do a McMansion type of house here, Bart Goldberg said.
Instead, they rebuilt the interior and spiffed up the stucco and wood exterior. The house is now a five-bedroom, 7,000-square-footer with an attached garage, a rarity among older homes in the neighborhood. It’s on a 6,300-square-foot lot, a little more than twice the city standard.