Magazine archive: Real Estate

What Homes Cost in 73 Chicago Neighborhoods and 200 Suburbs in 2012

What Homes Cost in 73 Chicago Neighborhoods and 200 Suburbs in 2012

Here's the complete set of home sales data—median prices, percentage change, number of sales, and time on the market—for every part of the city that we gather enough stats to measure.

How to Downsize to a Smaller Chicagoland Home

How to Downsize to a Smaller Chicagoland Home

With the kids gone and retirement at hand, you gain some huge home-buying advantages.

Where to Buy a Pied-À-Terre in Downtown Chicago

Where to Buy a Pied-À-Terre in Downtown Chicago

Here's how to make a smart investment on a second home in the city.

How to Upgrade to Your Next Chicago Home

How to Upgrade to Your Next Chicago Home

Ready to move on up to a bigger, better house for your family? Here are six suburbs with undervalued properties and easy rides to the city.

Where to Buy Your First Home in Chicago

Where to Buy Your First Home in Chicago

A mortgage can cost half as much as rent in Chicago. Are you ready to take the plunge and buy your first place?

Real Estate 2011: House Prices in Chicago and the Suburbs

Real Estate 2011: House Prices in Chicago and the Suburbs

THE NEW NEW RULES OF REAL ESTATE: Eleven years ago, Chicago offered a guide to making the most of the sizzling-hot housing market. What a difference a decade makes. Now,...

Real-Estate Agent Naomi Campbell Specializes in Foreclosed Homes

Real-Estate Agent Naomi Campbell Specializes in Foreclosed Homes

DAMSEL IN DISTRESS: Lenders looking to unload foreclosed residences—as well as would-be homeowners hoping to take advantage of cut-rate housing deals—have found an able ally in Naomi Campbell

Who Will Buy the Condos?

Who Will Buy the Condos?

Since 2000, developers have flooded downtown Chicago with more than 20,000 new condos and townhouses—yet at the end of 2007, nearly 8,000 of them sat unsold. Will that glut drag down the local...

Been Up So Long, Looks Like Down to Me

Been Up So Long, Looks Like Down to Me

With for-sale signs staying around longer, and prices flattening—and even dipping in a few spots—Chicago’s hot-and-heavy real-estate market has entered a dreaded new phase: normalcy

Under Siege

Under Siege

With Legion Records, Rudy Acosta has created a successful local hip-hop kingdom. But his plan to build a humongous castlelike mansion has riled his Independence Park neighbors and incited them into...