Want to sell your home during the frigid Chicago winter? Hang a sexy oil painting
We've talked a lot this week about a possible slowdown in the Chicago housing market, but what about the effect that winter has on the market? Winter [...]
Ultra-luxury not just for the Gold Coast anymore
In the super-sized winter issue of New Homes Magazine, which hits the streets starting tomorrow and the 'net starting right now, ultra-luxury develo [...]
The spire formerly known as Fordham
Yo's truly has a little more news on 400 North Lake Shore Drive, the 2,000-ft. high-rise designed by Santiago Calatrava, formerly known as Fordham Spi [...]
The new high-end: New Homes' annual ultra-luxury homes issue
Ultra-luxury features
Ultra-luxury projects move to "new" locations
Design-builds let you have your way
Hotel condos get mixed reception
CBI's Glenc [...]
South Loop grows up
South Loop night out: more options than you think
Bigger developments bring bigger amenities – and some growing pains – in a booming ne [...]
New condo sales slow and market gets crowded in downtown Chicago
The latest market analysis from housing analyst, Appraisal Research Counselors: Condo sales in new buildings fell to about 700 in the third quarter, f [...]
The Morton Grove mix
"Urban-suburban" village builds new downtown around Metra stop
story and photos by Michael Austin
Say what you want about Evanston's quasi-urban b [...]
City Homes
Careful staging, pricing lure buyers during winter months, slower market
by Don DeBat
If you are hoping to sell your home before the snow falls fo [...]
Housing Watch
Condo conversions shift to suburbs, as Millennium Park boosts city sales
by Gail Lissner
During 2006, condominium conversion activity shifted dram [...]
New construction corner
Avoid common household hazards for happy holiday season in your home
by Tom Corbett
The holiday season is the time to take a break and enjoy the c [...]
Blue skies ahead
Azure Tower's terra cotta and blue glass designed to engage Boul Mich
by Dan Schuyler
Here's a question for designers and developers eyeing South [...]
The single-family condo
KB Home offers luxury houses minus maintenance at Creekside
by Dan Schuyler
What do today's new-home buyers want in floor plans, finishes, landsca [...]
Well manored
CBI Custom Homes sweats the details for $3.9 million Tudor in Glencoe
by Dan Schuyler
When you cast an eye over design-build firm CBI Custom Homes [...]
Good as gold
Luxury development heads south as "new" locations go high-endÂ
by Alison Soltau
Not so long ago, if you had several million dollars to lavish on a [...]
Have it your way
Design-build offers perfect homes for picky buyers with time, money
by Joel Hoglund
To build or not to build, that was the question facing 36-year [...]
Hotel condo reservations
Some developers check out of fledgling market as home buyers flock to others
by Alison Soltau
Buyers scouting downtown Chicago for in-town residen [...]
South Loop night out
Establishments keep coming, but neighborhood has a ways to go
by Barry Pearce
Six or seven years ago New Homes ran a "South Loop night out" story [...]
Avondale condo conversion puts its ego front and center
Most people would have a hard time calling themselves the ideal anything, let alone tattoo it across their foreheads, but Ideal Condominiums, loca [...]
Work in progress: 2/3 of Trio topped off
Looks like the twin mid-rises of Trio, 740 Fulton's neighbor in the Fulton River District, have been topped off. The seven-story buildings will be [...]
Housing bubble hiss: existing-home sales down in Sept.
The headline of the day comes from a new release issued by the National Association of Realtors: "September existing-home sales ease, setting state [s [...]