Genevieve Buck

When the price seems right and the location's OK, the luxuries of space and deluxe amenities can quickly drop from top to secondary priorities. That could be the case at...

Plan on spending the day at Bridgeport Village, even if there's just a cursory interest in this 17-acre development of 116 new single-family houses emerging in Mayor Daley's former territory....

I'm pretty rigid about some of the guidelines we've set for reviewing new homes for the House Hunter column. It's important to always see models, or at least one model,...

Back in August, '99, when House Hunter was just six months old, I wrote that I'd become "intrigued by a very practical question involving design: Who changes the light bulbs...

When a few builders are gutsy enough to build something other than the expected for a formal showing of a group of expensive homes, they deserve more than a few...

Percentages can be boring, except maybe to teachers, accountants, financial reporters. Actually, numbers are also important to the rest of us, especially if a nice, round 10 percent increase shows...

By the time I waited around for about 15 minutes in the sales center of Shoreline Park, a rental-to-condo conversion on Marine Drive in Chicago, I was ready to pick...

Norwood Builders of Chicago apparently is aiming to be the MCL and Enterprise Cos. of suburban communities. Just as these two leading residential developers, also based in Chicago, are planting...

Pity the baffled builders who cater to the luxury market and constantly have to dream up "something different" for buyers who can afford what they want. Ask North Shore architect/builder...

When is a townhouse not a townhouse? When it's a ground-level, two-story unit with a wrought-iron-fence-enclosed patio at River City, the Bertrand Goldberg-designed 10-story landmark on the Chicago River currently...