Drake Tower Apartments

About the Building

Located at 179 E. Lake Shore Drive, this is just one Chicago condo development in the Gold Coast neighborhood that offers spacious units, quality construction and all the amenities you need to live in comfort. The development offers units with a number of different layouts. The various floorplans include anywhere from 1 to 3 bedrooms. Typically, the living rooms are 352 square feet, providing plenty of space to host a Super Bowl party or your child's sleep-over. Although, with second bedrooms being 132 square feet on average, your kids and their little buddies will have enough space to camp out on the floor in their own room if they want.

The units at 179 E. Lake Shore Drive are quite spacious, but sometimes the penthouse itself isn't enough to gain your interest if you're not allowed to bring your beloved pet along to the new abode. Not to worry, this residential building welcomes the four-legged members of the family as well, so start packing up Fluffy's things and picking out the perfect new spot for that paw-print water bowl.

In addition to the tangible characteristics of the units and regulations of the building, you'd probably like to know a little bit about the cost of living in a place like this in the Gold Coast - more specifically, how much you should anticipate paying in monthly assessments. Well, the most recent research from homeowners in this sought-after Gold Coast dwelling shows the average assessments cost $2,401 per month. And just to help potential residents-such as yourself-get a better idea of how real estate in this building is faring these days, we've compiled the latest data on the purchase history and current conditions for 179 E. Lake Shore Drive.

From the time it is listed to the time it sells, the standard amount of time a unit in this building stays on the market is 731 days. Just to give you a ballpark figure on the typical price for a place here, a 1-bedroom most recently sold for $782,500 in July of 2007. More generally speaking, the price per square foot is $518.