Looking for the perfect place to make your own? This charming 3 bedroom, 1 bath home offers a great combination of comfort, space, and convenience. Featuring updated flooring throughout the kitchen, a newly installed fence, and a 2-car garage, this home is ready for its next owner. Step outside to enjoy the good sized, private fenced yard, perfect for entertaining, pets, gardening, or simply relaxing outdoors. The basement provides additional storage space along with potential for a future bathroom, allowing the next owner to add their own finishing touches. Conveniently located near shopping, convenience stores, and with easy access to nearby highways. Whether you're a first-time homebuyer or simply looking for a place to call your own, this home offers plenty of potential.
Grant Park, located between Downtown Rockford and the Rock River, is a historic and park-centered Rockford neighborhood with a bluff-top greenspace and a classic grid of older homes. The neighborhood’s character concentrates along N Main Street near the Sinnissippi Park corridor, where river views, trail traffic, and small local stops set the daily rhythm. Early-20th-century houses and tidy brick buildings give the streets a settled, architectural continuity. Grant Park itself frames the area with open lawns and a lookout feel above the water. Nearby, Anderson Japanese Gardens and Nicholas Conservatory & Gardens add a cultivated, gallery-like calm to weekend routines. The Rock River Recreation Path ties it together with a steady flow of walkers and cyclists.
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Offer insights
502 Barnum Rd · $150,000
$153K and above
75% chance or better to win
Why $153K+ is a strong offer
DAYS ON MARKET
24 days
The average home goes pending in 8 days.
SALE-TO-LIST
100.7%
Most homes are selling 1% above list price.
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Property details
Interior
Exterior
Finance
Kitchen
Bathroom
Bedroom
Living
Dining
Interior features
Gas cooktop
Refrigerator
Oven
Gas water heater
Full basement
Security system
Bathrooms
1 full bathroom (main level)
Kitchen
Gas cooktop
Refrigerator
Oven
Laundry & utility
Gas water heater
Heating & cooling
Forced air heating (natural gas)
Central air conditioning
Exterior features
Shingle roof
Public water
Public sewer
Home design
Single-family residence
One story
Parking
Detached 2-car garage
Security
Security system
Construction
Shingle roof
Utilities
Public water
Public sewer
Electricity and solar
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Rockfords residential zoning districts are intended to create, maintain, and promote a variety of housing opportunities for individual households and to maintain the desired physical character of existing neighborhoods and developing areas consistent with the citys official comprehensive plan. These regulations are intended to ensure that permitted and special uses are compatible within each district. They are intended to maintain and protect residential property values and to promote the peace quiet and enjoyment of the citys residential areas by requiring setbacks and open spaces on the same lot as the residential development. While these districts primarily accommodate residential use types some nonresidential use types are also allowed.
Permitted uses
Include but are not limited to:
Garden center
Housing-Group
Housing-Single unit
Infrastructure
Office
Public service
Recreation
Communications tower
Agriculture-Cropland
Park & open space
Climate risks
1/10 Flood Factor
Minimal risk of a flood reaching the building in the next 30 years
1/10 Fire Factor
Unlikely to be in a wildfire in next 30 years
2/10 Heat Factor
7 days above 101° expected this year, 15 days in 30 years
2/10 Wind Factor
Minor risk of severe winds over next 30 years
2/10 Air Factor
1 unhealthy days expected this year, 2 days in 30 years
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Historical weather
Rockford, IL • 61109
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Sun exposure
97/ 100
Exceptional sunlight
Sunscore
There appears to be minimal shading by surrounding buildings, terrain, and vegetation.
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Redfin Estimate for 502 Barnum Rd
$150,008
$8 over list price of $150K
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The Redfin Estimate uses 6 recent nearby sales, priced between $73K to $184K.