Genevieve Buck

Even as much of the U.S. economy struggled to shake off the effects of a stubborn recession, the nation's housing industry closed out its best year ever, with new-home sales...

While some developers continue to head west--with a few now predicting that DeKalb and Sycamore are real estate's next expansion hot spots--suburban stalwart Neumann Homes is doing sort of a...

There's a lot of eye appeal in the eleven handsome town homes going up on West Wabansia Avenue, at the very southwestern edge of Bucktown. If you look at them...

A few weeks ago, during a forecasting session on housing in 2002, several suburban home builders described Montgomery as one of the hot spots in northern Illinois. "Sizzling" is more...

`Twelve years ago, the area between Michigan and Indiana Avenues, from 26th to 31st Streets was blighted with squalid frame and brick buildings. "Today the slum has been cleared and...

Never heard of Gilberts? How about Montgomery? You're not alone. Unless you live in one of these towns that are about as far west as you can go on the...

We've come a long way, House Hunter readers, beginning 2001 with a hint or two that housing sales across the country were slipping, then recovering, staying flat, then bouncing back--this...

With the availability of high-rise rentals in desirable locations continuing to shrink, the prospect of 901 apartments going off the market is scary enough to transform some life-long renters into--gasp!--prospective...

The top ten "essential/must have features" that 21st Century home buyers want are, in order, a laundry room, an exhaust fan, dining room, exterior lighting, linen closets, a lot with...

Time for readers to have their say. The idea of a home with a pair of master bedroom suites is great--exactly what I would want, writes a Chicagoan, referring to...