Magazine archive: Housing Bulletin

A Baby Boomlet in Bridgeport

A Baby Boomlet in Bridgeport

In another sign of the renaissance of family living in the city, a townhouse development in urban Bridgeport is witnessing a baby boom of the sort that’s usually associated with suburban...

Four Real-Estate/Architecture Events

Four Real-Estate/Architecture Events

You can tell it’s fall when the calendar starts to fill up with must-do events. Here are four that should interest people intrigued by Chicago architecture and real estate...

The Best We Could Get Was 88th Place?

The Best We Could Get Was 88th Place?

A new national ranking of suburbs came out last week, bringing with it two surprises for Chicagoans. The first surprise was that a place many don’t even know exists...

Mother Cabrini Shrine Reopens

Mother Cabrini Shrine Reopens

At the base of Lincoln Park 2550, a posh condo tower nearing completion at Lakeview Avenue and St. James Place, a modest set of classical columns flanks the project’s southeast corner...

Sales of Distressed Properties on Two-Month Upswing

Sales of Distressed Properties on Two-Month Upswing

After a few months of declines, sales of Chicago-area homes that were either foreclosed or sold for less than the value of the mortgage increased in both July and August.

Chicago Turning into FarmVille

Chicago Turning into FarmVille

Long known as a city of neighborhoods, Chicago is rapidly becoming a city of neighborhood farms. On top of the countless backyard and community gardens that dot the city, several larger-scale...

Pieces of Historic Glencoe Mansion Hit Auction Block on Saturday

Pieces of Historic Glencoe Mansion Hit Auction Block on Saturday

A historic mansion on Glencoe’s blufftop whose asking price was cut down by over $3 million is itself now getting ready to be taken down—and fans of architectural salvage will get a chance to...

Deal Estate Flash: Former Blackhawk Cam Barker Sells in Bucktown

Deal Estate Flash: Former Blackhawk Cam Barker Sells in Bucktown

Cam Barker, who spent several seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks before being traded to the Minnesota Wild in February 2010, has sold the Bucktown condo he bought three years ago...

A September to Remember?

It’s been a nice summer, hasn’t it? We’ve had three good, hot months—and I’m not talking about the weather. The new Case-Shiller information that came out Tuesday showed that home prices...

Signs of a Stabilizing Real-Estate Market

In the past month, signs of vitality in the Chicago real-estate market have proliferated...