The Home Front

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...

Reeling from years of real estate tax increases “Ma and Pa” owners of small apartment properties are wondering what hikes are on the horizon...

Chicago home buyers and families seeking to refinance now have an opportunity to lock in the lowest mortgage interest in nearly five decades...

Staging a home for sale in today’s resale-home market involves a shift to linear and modern furniture styles.

“Antiques, traditional art, Ori...

Chicago’s North Side existing-home market posted a “complete flip” in four lakefront neighborhoods in January as a “new trend appears to be...