The Glen Club

Cambridge at the Glen…a great variety of 279 stunning homes

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The Cambridge neighborhood in The Glen (Glenview, Illinois) has the most diverse array of luxury home types among the various Glen neighborhoods.  You’ll find single family homes, townhomes, duplexes, and two-flats.

The Glen is an upscale residential and retail development on the grounds of the former Naval Air Station Glenview.  It has 1,255 homes in nine neighborhoods, excluding senior, rental, and Navy housing.  The Glen is known as the premier lifestyle community on Chicagoland’s North Shore.  It offers scores of shops, boutiques, restaurants, parks, two golf courses (including The Glen Club’s championship course designed by Tom Fazio), a movie theater, spa, health club, art gallery, and Kohl Children’s Museum.

Cambridge Homes (by Richard J. Brown) was the developer of the Cambridge neighborhood which was completed 12 years ago.  It is located along Patriot Boulevard on the west, West Lake Avenue on the south, and Lily Lane on the east.  Or, put another way, it is conveniently located between Glen Town Center (The Glen’s retail masterpiece) and the new North Glenview Metra Station.

279 stunning homes make up this development, and the breakdown by home type follows:

  • 104, traditional single family homes
  • 19, estate-style single family homes
  • 35, duplexes
  • 13, two-flats
  • 108, townhomes

Violet Street is the development’s “main street” running between Mint Lane and Lily Lane; and it offers the greatest variety of homes within Cambridge.  There are 68 homes on Violet.  38 are red brick townhomes (12 of which are end units), 8 are duplexes, and 22 are detached homes.  Of the single family home’s 10 are the large estate models.

My personal favorites in Cambridge are the Rockwellian bungalows with comfortable front porches, cozy yards, and white picket fences.  They are picture perfect properties like you would see in old Saturday Evening Post magazines of days gone by.

Home prices in Cambridge range from the high $300,000’s for townhomes to about a million dollars for the large estate homes.  If you may be interested in living in Cambridge – or anywhere in The Glen – please contact me at 847-401-1802.  I am a longtime Glen homeowner and an award winning Realtor specializing in Glen properties.

Margaret Ludemann, @properties Residential Brokerage.

Home sales in The Glen by neighborhood

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The Glen is an upscale residential and retail development in Glenview Illinois on Chicagoland‘s North Shore.  It is home to 1,255 privately owned residences in 9 distinct neighborhoods.  The Glen’s “main street” called Glen Town Center offers scores of restaurants and shops, as well as a movie theater, coffee shop, book store, and Kohl Children’s Museum.  The development also boasts a lake, park, recreation center, playgrounds, and two golf courses.  Recently I did an accounting of all home sales in The Glen in 2013 by neighborhood using MLS data, and here is what I found:

Cambridge is the development north of W. Lake, and it runs from Patriot Blvd to The Glen’s Metra train station.  It has 278 homes (townhomes, duplexes, two-flats, and single family homes).  14 homes sold in 2013 totaling $7,702,500, an average of $550,178.

Chapel Crossing is a development east of Patriot Blvd and south of Chestnut.  It has 168 single family homes.  9 homes sold totaling $9,283,750, an average of $1,031,527.

Glen Shore is a condominium development on the north side of Chestnut, nearly bordering Lehigh.  It has 31 units.  3 units sold totaling $917,500, an average of $305,833.

Landings is a development south of Chestnut and east of Chapel Crossing.  It has 143 single family homes.  8 homes sold totaling $7,110,000, an average of $888,750.

Patriot Commons is a development west of Patriot Blvd and south of Chestnut.  It borders The Glen Club golf course to the west. It has 68 townhomes and condo apartments.  1 home sold at $465,000.

Regency is the new Pulte development a quarter mile north of W. Lake and west of Shermer Rd.  149 townhomes and ranch villas (and 2 SFH) are planned.  All but 9 units have been sold as of 2.15.14.  29 sales totaled $13,397,485, an average of $461,982.

Southgate Single Family Homes is a development south of W. Lake, and it is bordered on the west by The Glen Club’s golf course.  The southern boundary is Independence Avenue.  It has 237 homes.  11 homes sold for a total of $13,037,000, an average of $1,185,181.

Southgate townhomes are in the confines of the Southgate development.  There are 62 units.  6 homes sold totaling $2,320,000 an average of $386,666.

Tower Crossing is a luxury townhome development bordering Glen Town Center on 3 sides.  It has 154 units.  20 homes sold totaling $13,673,900, an average of $683,695.

Obviously it was a very successful year for home sales in The Glen.  For information about homes for sale in The Glen, please contact me at 847-401-1802 or by email margaretludemann@gmail.com.

Margaret Ludemann, Glen resident and @properties Realtor

2013 sales increase in Southgate on The Glen

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Single family home sales in the Southgate neighborhood increased in 2013, from 9 in 2012 to 13 in 2013.  Further, 3 additional homes went under contract that had not closed by year end.  More impressive is the improvement from 2009 when only 2 single family home’s sold.

Before going further, here’s a little Southgate 101.  Southgate is a housing development in The Glen in Glenview, Illinois on Chicago’s North Shore.  The Glen is an upscale residential and retail community with 9 named neighborhoods, one of which is Southgate, and a shopping & dining “main street” called Glen Town Center.  Southgate has 299 homes of which 237 are luxury single family homes.  Many of these homes border The Glen Club’s 18 hole championship golf course.

Let’s look at the prices of the Southgate homes that sold in 2013.  (Street name, followed by size in square feet, and price.)  I do not provide specific addresses out of courtesy to the new homeowners. 

Kittyhawk ,  4618,  $1,250,000

Independence,  4618,   $1,430,000

Bennington,  3456,  $1,000,000

Kittyhawk, 4080,  $1,250,000

Saratoga,  4080, $1,279,000

Midway,  3814,  $1,315,000

Independence,  4164,  $1,350,000

Saratoga,  3805,  $1,140,000

Cabot,  4700,  $1,310,000

Independence,  3498,  $1,160,000

Bennington,  3796,  $1,100,000

Independence,  4232,  $972,000

Kittyhawk,  4253,  $1,215,000

Digging deeper into the sales data we find two other pieces of very good news.  First, no sales listings expired or were cancelled due to an inability to find buyers.  By contrast, 4 listed single family homes in Southgate failed to sell in 2012 and 1 rental listing did not find a renter.  Second, Southgate had no distressed properties listed for sale last year.  A distressed property is either bank owned or it involves a short sale; and they typically sell for well under market value.

Southgate’s sales performance is consistent with what occurred throughout the country in 2013.   The number of homes sold nationally increased by 9.1%; Illinois home sales increased 18.9%; and in the Chicago primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (+ 23%).  Glenview home sales increased 19%.  I see another strong year for home sales in The Glen and in Southgate in 2014.

Margaret Ludemann, Glen homeowner and @properties Realtor

847-401-1802    margaret.ludemann@gmail.com

No homes for sale in Tower Crossing in The Glen

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That’s right.  There are no homes available in Tower Crossing, the luxury townhome development in the heart of The Glen.

The Glen is an upscale residential and retail development in Glenview, Illinois in the Chicago area’s North Shore.  It is composed of eight residential neighborhoods (not counting retirement and assisted living communities) with a total of 1,349 homes and 3912 residents.  Glen Town Center is The Glen’s “Main Street” with scores of shops and restaurants, along with a movie theatre, coffee shop, book store and Kohl Children’s Museum.

Tower Crossing borders Glen Town Center on three sides which puts its residents within a few steps of dining and shopping venues.  This is one of the key attractions of Tower Crossing.  The homes are stunning, but the lifestyle is perhaps even more important to homeowners.

Tower Crossing has 154 four-story brick townhomes, all of which were sold by the developer years ago.  There are 6 models and 8 floor plans ranging in size from 3,031 to 4,105 square feet.  Home prices currently range from the low $600’s to around $800,000.  Many have views of Battery Park, Lake Glenview and The Glen Club’s 18 hole championship golf course.

Back to my point about inventory.  2013 has been an active one for Tower Crossing homes sales.  19 homes have sold and another is under contract waiting to close, but in a development of this size to have nothing currently on the market is rare.  Winter, of course, is typically slow in real estate, but Tower Crossing since its inception in 2003 has always had homes for sale either from the developer (through 2006) or since then from homeowners.  Another reason for no listings?  Because the people who live here LOVE IT.

Undoubtedly we will see some listings after the first of the year, so if you may be interested in Tower Crossing (where I proudly live!) or anywhere in The Glen, please contact me at margaretludemann@gmail.com.

Margaret Ludemann, Tower Crossing resident and @properties Realtor

Coming…Westgate at the Glen

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In May I wrote a blog about a new housing development on the drawing boards for The Glen.  The Glen is the premier lifestyle community on the North Shore in Glenview, Illinois.  The Glen offers several residential neighborhoods and is anchored by Glen Town Center which has numerous restaurants, shops, a book store, coffee shop, and a movie theater.

The proposed development is close to final approval (I am keeping my fingers crossed), so I thought this would be a good time to provide an update.  The development, by Edward R. James Partners, LLC, will be called Westgate at the Glen.  It will be located adjacent to the new Regency neighborhood of townhomes and villas just north of West Lake Avenue and west of Shermer Road.  This places it immediately across Shermer from Glenview Prairie Club Golf Course and across West Lake from The Glen Club, an 18 hole championship golf course.  It is near Southgate at the Glen which was also developed by the James team.  Westgate is convenient to Glen Town Center, Gallery Park, Attea Middle School, and the Glen’s Metra train station.

173 homes are to be constructed on approximately 29.25 acres of land.  71 row homes, 68 Mews townhomes, and 34 single family homes are planned.  The single family homes and row homes will be configured with first floor master bedrooms; they will have two stories.  The townhomes will have three stories with all bedrooms on the top floor.  The row homes facing Shermer will have golf course views.

The development will be built in two phases.  Each phase will include a mix of row homes and townhomes.  The entire development will have common areas; and it is intended to provide “nearly maintenance-free” living.

Final approval is expected in the late first quarter or early second quarter of 2014, and infrastructure development will begin sometime within 12 months thereafter.

If you may have interest in living in The Glen, please contact me at margaretludemann@gmail.com or 847-401-1802.

Margaret Ludemann, resident of The Glen and @properties Realtor