79 E Cedar St

Gold Coast, Chicago, IL · 90 days on market · View on Zillow

79 E Cedar St

$6.9M somewhere else buys…

4 bedrooms · 9 baths · 7,523 sqft · 1,872 sqft lot

Built 1884 · 2 Attached Garage spaces · $917/sqft (city median $240)

Welcome to 79 East Cedar Street. This is a rare opportunity to acquire a home of significant scale and presence in the Gold Coast-one of Chicago's most vibrant and historic neighborhoods. In 1884 Bertha Palmer commissioned architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee of Silsbee and Kent to create a neo-Moorish masterpiece design to transcend the ordinary.

What this place offers

  • Heating: Natural Gas, Electric
  • Cooling: Central Air, Zoned, Gas
  • 2 Attached Garage spaces
  • Garage
  • Top school rating 7/10 nearby

The numbers

$137K/yr

Property tax (actual rate)

$25K/yr

Insurance (quoted)

Price history

1996$1,035,000
2025$7,900,000
2026 (asking)$6,900,000

Up 567% since 1996

$6,900,000

Down payment20% · $1,380,000
%
Mortgage (principal + interest)$34,528
Property tax$11,443
Home insurance$2,070
All-in monthly$48,040/mo

You'd need about $2,058,875/yr in household income (28% rule) plus $1,380,000 in cash.

Would rent for ~$34,500/mo · 6.0% gross yield

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