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Hidden costs can lurk around doors and windows
The fact that everything you can see looks good in your new condo or townhouse does not mean that all is well. Two of the places you probably haven't [...]
Big housing developments planned in Chicago's future
The "City of Big Shoulders" looks as if it's about to flex its development muscles – again.
Seven major new residential and mixed-use developme [...]
Great expectations
Homeowners, builders adjusting to buyer's market in '03
"Is this a bad market?" asked Harry Huzenis, of Jameson Realty Group, at a recent forum spons [...]
Room with a view
Vue 20 focused on innovation, affordable prices
Architect David Brininstool rarely likes the overwrought names developers tend to attach to their pro [...]
Breaking the rules
RCR/DC's modern designs have wide appeal
Meeting a visitor outside a recent East Village project, at 839 N. Hermitage, developer Bob Ranquist correct [...]
Shop around, use caution in buying new construction
After 19 years as a home inspector, I've seen everything imaginable during the home buying process, including once suicide and a homicide. We'll leave [...]
Fall is important time for maintenance, repairs
Here it is the start of September and most of you are probably wondering what happened to the summer. From a building maintenance perspective, we are [...]
Average home price hits $1 million along lakefront
The lure of lakefront breezes has had an uplifting effect on resale home prices in four key Chicago lakefront neighborhoods, boosting the average sale [...]
A Sterling address
Invsco's gateway tower designed from inside out
Take a quick look at the Sterling, American Invsco's new-construction condo tower in River North, and [...]
On the Block
De Maria finishing landmark project, starts firm in W. Loop
The Thrush Companies' Block Y development is more than just another project in a neighbor [...]
The real estate professional is not always in your corner
The single largest purchase that most people make in their lifetimes is a home, and the importance of the buying process is reflected in endless safeg [...]
With housing values rising property offers top return
With the stock market spiraling lower and interest rates nearing a 40-year low, real estate is looking more and more like the best investment opportun [...]
Chicago's hottest neighborhoods 2002
Some areas are staying warm even as market cools
For a couple of years there, even veteran real estate investors, guys who have had as many ups and d [...]
Pilsen both wary and welcoming as development moves southwest
When Teresa Fraga moved with her family to the Lower West Side neighborhood of Pilsen 36 years ago her apartment did not have a bathroom, much less a [...]
State Place locks up sales with green space, convenience
When the city looked to redevelop the former site of police headquarters, at 11th and State, it demanded a project that would add to the street's revi [...]
Turning Pointe
Pointe 1900 builds gateway to Loop, homeownership
For countless South Siders, the corner of State Street and Archer Avenue has always marked the poin [...]
Prices eased in 1st quarter for prime lakefront houses
For sheer snob appeal in Chicago housing, nothing beats a posh single-family home in Lincoln Park or a luxury condominium on the Near North Side.
Amo [...]
The annual New Homes awards 2001
The experts choose Chicago's best new homes for 2001
Deciding on this year's New Homes awards was both extremely difficult and unusually easy. The ca [...]
Gentrification hasn't dulled the edge in Bucktown, Wicker Park
When the cool kids in Wicker Park want a taste of the Real World, they head to Piece, a pizza place and microbrewery at 1927 W. North Ave. The restaur [...]
A Grand old time
The Grand on Grand courts luxury in River North
The Grand on Grand might just sound like a memorable marketing slogan, but the catchy moniker for the [...]