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Home's Outdoor Oasis Includes Pool With Slide and Waterfall For $1.4M

Every week, Patch profiles a luxury home currently for sale in the Tri-Cities.

Cost: $1,399,000 Bedrooms: 5 Baths: 6—Five full, one half Square footage: 6,280 Built: 2006 Details: Located on a private acre and cul-de-sac lot in Tanglewood Hills, the custom home at 1052 Schonback Court in Batavia has much to offer prospective owners—both inside and out. Outdoor extras include an inground pool with slide and waterfall, spa, fireplace, kitchen, terraced hardscape patios, and irrigation and mosquito misting systems. Interior amenities aren't too shabby either, including Brazilian cherrywood floors, stone tile and trimwork and other high-end finishes throughout the home's four complete floors. The home has a total of four fireplaces and a four-plus car garage, as well as a finished lower level with private access, a …

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Mansion in St. Charles Sells After 6 Years

Sale comes amid continued reports of improvements in the St. Charles housing market.

An 11,400-square-foot St. Charles mansion whose builder once asked $4.8 million for the eco-friendly home finally has sold after nearly six years on the market, according to ChicagoMag.com. The closing price on the five-bedroom, six-bathroom home and its 1.7-acre lot was $1.776 million when the sale was concluded Jan. 3, ChicagoMag.com reported. Built in 2007 by Robert Lord, the house featured a variety of energy-saving features that included geothermal heating. But no one has ever lived in it. Troubling signs appeared in the housing market after prices peaked in 2006, after which the “housing bubble” burst, according to Wikipedia. The decline continued in 2007. When the Great Recession began in 2007, prices continued to tumble. Increasing…

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Ted Schnell

2:30 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Oh geez -- I saw it in the url before I clicked the link, which was the same listing page I looked at earlier. I did not expect the address to be up in the banner like that but with the actual info on the home. I missed it.   more ›