The Home Front

Home buyers and owners seeking to refinance will find a lump of coal in their Christmas stockings thanks to President-elect Donald Trump....

“Fence-sitters”—those prospective home buyers and homeowners who were planning to refinance—likely have missed a golden opportunity to...

The world of real estate likely will not come crashing down with President-elect Donald Trump in the White House. It’s hard to believe...

Every tourist who strolls the sidewalks of the Windy City is awed by the skyline’s architecture. But we all should take another look...

After a two-year evaluation on the impact of O’Hare International Airport’s jet noise on property values, real estate...

Viewing all the recent new-development action downtown, it appears that Chicago’s decade-long high-rise condominium bust is finally over....

Spurred on by historically low mortgage rates and a recovering job market, the Chicago housing market remains active as the end of the...

America’s old-school newspapers may be struggling while Millennials click their way to smart-phone news, but the historic buildings they...

The “Tax Tsunami” that is hitting Chicago property owners is not only about the rising real estate taxes and the new utility tax on...

Home-loan interest rates are quietly slipping back toward the record low hit in 2012, less than four years ago, experts say. “Average...

The deepest housing recession since the Great Depression may be over, but thousands of home and condominium owners in Chicago and across...

Chicago landlords and homeowners are feeling squeezed like lemons thanks to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s latest brain storm—a new and quickly...

The winds of neighborhood chance continue to blow across Chicago’s North and Northwest sides with some surprising results, experts say....