The Home Front

With Black Friday fever raging and most people focused on last-minute Christmas shopping, the year’s end can be the perfect time to buy...

If you are planning to start home-loan hunting to finance the purchase of a new or existing dwelling now or in 2016, better clip this...

Led by an extremely strong $1-million-plus home market in downtown Chicago and the Near North Side, existing luxury homes, condominiums...

With more and more Millennials choosing to rent apartments, many housing advocates are asking: “Whatever happened to the American Dream...

Autumn house hunters are benefiting from home-loan bargains because a nervous Federal Reserve Board held off on a widely expected...

Long-time senior citizen homeowners in the Old Town and Lincoln Park neighborhoods may be forced out of these swank enclaves by record...

Second of two articles on community-association living. Imagine you are British seaman Fletcher Christian serving under the lash of the...

Chicago has spent big bucks on elite Loop and near-downtown neighborhood projects to maintain its “world-class city” status, but its...

Prospective home and condominium buyers may have been shocked by the sharp downturn in the stock market last week, but as a result they...

Are you a senior-citizen homeowner who recently received the second installment of your 2014 property tax bill in the mail from the Cook...

While members of the embattled Illinois Legislature are fighting with Gov. Bruce Rauner over the state’s pension problems and inflated...