Gail Marks Jarvis – Page 20

Your investment behavior could be costing you a fortune

May 23, 2019 at 3:32 p.m.

Are you quick to pull the trigger when you think the stock market is going to attack the money you've worked so hard to amass? Then your behavior is probably...

Chicago among cities with largest share of underwater homeowners, studies show

June 10, 2018 at 1:01 p.m.

Stuck in a home you can't sell for enough to get out from underneath the mortgage? You are not alone. More homeowners in the Chicago area are trapped in underwater...

A new apartment development called Vantage Oak Park is under construction June 6, 2016, in downtown Oak Park.

Oak Park adding high-rise rental buildings

June 10, 2018 at 2:27 p.m.

Oak Park is adding high-rise luxury rental apartment buildings to its downtown as it seeks to capture millennials and empty nesters who have been drawn to newly built skyscrapers popular...

The typical student with loans leaves college with $35,000 in debts.

You’ve just graduated. Here’s how to handle $35,000 in student loans

May 23, 2019 at 3:32 p.m.

If you've just finished college and are heading to a new job, avoid the extremes. In other words, don't panic about your student loans, but don't ignore them either before...

The Chicago area is in the top 20 percent of 126 U.S. metro areas for making money on fixer-uppers.

House flipping thriving in Chicago area, study says

June 10, 2018 at 2:35 p.m.

As house flipping picks up steam throughout the nation, the Chicago area is in the top 20 percent of 126 U.S. metro areas for making money on fixer-uppers, according to...

Home prices rose in Chicago in the last year, but the local housing market merely inched forward compared with many other cities.

Home price report: Chicago improving but lags behind other cities

June 10, 2018 at 2:39 p.m.

Home prices continued to rise in the Chicago area and across the nation in the 12 months that ended in March, but the local housing market merely inched forward compared...

An internal investigation into loans at LendingClub, which had its IPO in 2014, above, led to the resignation of CEO Renaud Laplanche.

Despite new SEC rules, investors should see crowdfunding as gambling, not investing

May 23, 2019 at 3:32 p.m.

Just as news stories exposed concerns about the inner workings of LendingClub, the U.S. government has been opening the door for Americans from virtually any income level to dabble in...

A study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition said the average Cook County renter makes $18.34 an hour, which means the renter would have to work 1.2 jobs to earn enough to be able to afford the average apartment in the county.

Renting a Chicago apartment becoming less affordable, study says

June 10, 2018 at 1:49 p.m.

The average renter in the Chicago area does not earn enough to comfortably afford a modest apartment, a study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition reported Wednesday. With rents...

For the first time on record, living with parents is now the most common arrangement for Americans ages 18 to 34, an analysis of Census data by the Pew Research Center has found. The sharp shift reflects a long-running decline in marriage age, amplified by the economic upheavals of the Great Recession.

Living with parents is now the most common arrangement for young adults

June 11, 2018 at 10:34 p.m.

In a dramatic culture change, living with mom and dad has become the most common arrangement for young adults — especially men. Adults between 18 and 34 are more likely...

Left, renters Melissa Wilkes and her boyfriend Bobby Razo, looking at an apartment at 1247 W. Madison St., in Chicago on Tuesday May 17, 2016. On the right, broker Aaron Galvin is helping them with their search.

(Nuccio DiNuzzo/baiduhai)

As apartment rents rise, a majority of Chicago renters are staying put

June 10, 2018 at 3:05 p.m.

An $80 a month rent increase, along with the gnawing feeling that they were already paying too much for their West Loop apartment, prompted Melissa Wilkes and Bobby Razo to...

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