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4534 North Saint Louis Avenue

Albany Park · Single family · Before & after · a project of my own, not a client transaction.

Bought$305,000Oct 2024
Sold$677,000Dec 2025 · fourteen months later

A frame cottage in Albany Park, bought at $305,000 and taken down to the studs on my own account — the warren of small rooms opened into one living-dining-kitchen run, a new kitchen with an island, new baths, new floors throughout, and a rebuilt front porch. Sold for $677,000 fourteen months after I bought it. The same rooms, before and after, below.

4534 North Saint Louis Avenue before renovation, 2024
Before · 2024
4534 North Saint Louis Avenue after renovation, 2025
After · 2025
Living and dining rooms before renovation
Living · before
Front porch before renovation
Porch · before
4534 N Saint Louis as bought, 2025
As bought · 2025
Reframed interior at 4534 N Saint Louis, 2025
Framing · 2025
4534 N Saint Louis finished front, 2025
Finished · 2025
New kitchen at 4534 N Saint Louis, 2025
Kitchen · 2025

Photos are my own, taken on site; years shown are when each photo was taken. Figures are closed MLS or public-record numbers.

The purchase and sale are in the MLS record: closing record for 4534 North Saint Louis Avenue.

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