Wayne Faulkner

A law taking effect Jan. 1 to limit predatory lending has spurred concerns that new home loans could be halted in Cook County after the new year due to confusion...

In a memorable scene in the movie "Moonstruck," Loretta Castorini, the widowed daughter of a successful Italian plumbing contractor played by Cher, goes to confession and tells the priest of...

The housing boom has peaked and things will ease off from here on, right? Not necessarily, according to a report on the Chicago area's new construction market by Metrostudy, a...

Sales have begun on a condominium development at 71st Street and Oglesby Avenue in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood. Sota LLC, comprising Poter Construction and Development of Chicago and Alliance Property...

Have you been watching your neighbor's house sit on the market with a price tag that's maybe $50,000 too high? Does this make you nervous about the future value of...

Chicago's Southwest Side has for decades been home to people who worked hard for what they had. It is the heart of the southern half of the city's Bungalow Belt....

It's a survivor. The blue frame Italianate house at 2121 N. Hudson Ave. made it through the Great Chicago Fire, and it has survived 136 years of changing lifestyles and...

The condo boom has made Chicago's obsolete office buildings prime candidates for conversion to residential, especially near the wildly successful Millennium Park. But what does a 1980s office facility do...

The condo market is far more than downtown Chicago high-rises. It's high-rises in Evanston and six-flat conversions in Rogers Park. It's gutted vintage buildings on the South Side at bargain...

If you're buying a new-construction condominium and plan to make it your home, will you know your neighbors -- ever? Because the ranks of your fellow buyers might include investors,...