The Home Front

The world of real estate buying and selling may never be the same after the year of the virus.

Virtually all purchasers now rely on digital p...

Despite battling the virus plague, protests, riots and social unrest, Chicago’s North Side real estate market surprisingly is showing some p...

While protesters were marching and looters were smashing windows, stealing and burning buildings, wheels of progress were quietly turning to...

The Mortgageland interest-rate roller coaster has plummeted to a historic record low of 3.15% nationwide—the lowest ever recorded by the Fre...

Buying a home during the COVID-19 crisis may not be a life or death situation, but the market currently is coming out of a coma.

“There is no...

Apparently, a few unscrupulous Chicago-area landlords are practicing “rent gouging” in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, apartment ren...

A decade or two ago, architects and home builders were wringing their hands and wondering if the formal dining room and traditional little-u...

“Never waste a good crisis,” said former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

In the spirit of that quote, after the coronavirus is brought under cont...

Back in the day, long before the virus plagued Chicago’s once-thriving real estate market, the closing of property sales transactions often...

While real estate is still listed as an “essential service”—just like groceries and liquor stores—the world-wide coronavirus epidemic nearly...

The end of the Bull Market and stock-market declines sparked by the coronavirus economy are driving more and more serious buyers into invest...

While Chicagoans and most Americans continue to wrestle with the widespread shutdowns from the coronavirus and a broad pullback in consumer...