The Home Front

First of two articles on refinancing your home loan.
 

A retired North Side homeowner living on a fixed income was shocked when he learned hi...

If you are planning to buy a home or refinance your mortgage before the end of the year, there’s a chance for a holiday gift—lower mortgage...

With a shortage of buyers touring listings this summer, many Chicago home sellers were left scratching their heads, as the market for single...

Second of two articles on the Chicago home-buying market.

Ever wonder why market values of similar luxury homes in different neighborhoods va...

First of two articles on the Chicago home-buying market.

Chicago is far from a wilderness where in the still of the night all that can be hea...

Despite the decade-long boom in new rental apartments in Chicago, the market for new-construction condominiums is far from dead.

A new survey...

Despite affordable mortgage rates, the doldrums of summer apparently are keeping the Chicago housing market in slumber.

The city of Chicago s...

The condominium “deconversion” vultures circling Chicago may have to adjust their sites under a new ordinance passed last week by the Chicag...

The kitchen often is called the heart of the home. But in today’s style-conscious society, this fundamental living space can age fast.

Like c...

Like death and taxes there’s one other inevitability in life—apartment rent increases.
 

With the battering-ram of real estate tax increases...

Buyers are now king in Chicago’s home and condominium market while mortgage rates ease and prices continue to inch higher this summer.
 

The...

Home buyers and families planning to refinance this autumn had better buckle their seat belts, because the housing market may be in for a bu...