Genevieve Buck

The South Shore Cultural Center and its nine-hole golf course, beach, jazz festivals, ballrooms and myriad recreational possibilities sit directly east, across South Shore Drive, from LakeShore Pointe's town homes...

It's pretty amazing to look at the first shell of a building just going up and find out that only a handful of its 221 units are still unsold. Such...

You might say Cambridge Homes of Libertyville is the granddaddy of builders of active-adult communities in this area. Cambridge took on the 55-and-over set in 1970 when it built Cambridge...

Conventional wisdom has it that empty-nesters and retirees are practically the only people buying ranch-styled homes because they want to live without stairways. It's almost taken for granted that everybody...

The units in Sheridan Shore Courts being converted from rentals to condos look more like trendy downtown mini-lofts than apartments with facelifts, in a typical aging courtyard building in East...

Vintage buildings can certainly have their charms: Gracefully arched doorways, perhaps stained glass detailing on lobby entry doors, hardwood floors, moldings, fireplaces with elaborately designed mantels, high ceilings, exterior architectural...

Three developers are sitting on a stage in front of an audience of about 500 builders, one-upping each other with tales of selling to seniors--oops, make that "active adults"--in their...

Anne and Bernard Skul, who have homes in Glen Ellyn and Scottsdale, are part of the "lock-and-leave" retirement crowd. When crisp autumn days turn frigid in the Midwest, they close...

Before heading to north suburban Lake Zurich to see the four single-family home models at Wicklow Village, it's important for potential buyers to know that this development isn't the easiest...

Neotraditional developments--or neotrads to the housing crowd--are new interpretations of traditional communities that aim to conjure nostalgia for bygone architectural styles, for the safe and friendly atmosphere of small-town America,...