Genevieve Buck

Here's another one of those "Who are these people?" and "Where is all this money coming from?" stories. And, once again, it's that old platitude--location, location, location. The most expensive--$863,000...

The decor is bold in the model at One River Place, an eight-story building that until recently was the Montgomery Ward & Co. Merchandise Building on the east bank of...

Every time the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, mortgage brokers are deluged by calls from homeowners looking to refinance their home loans at lower rates. Lately, though, a lot of...

Talk about a conversion! The word takes on multiple meanings when it's applied to Wicker Manor, a six-unit condo in an historic building on Wolcott Avenue. Built in the early...

Joan McCloskey of Des Moines, Iowa, and Gopal Ahluwalia of Washington, D.C., are a terrific housing industry team whose Holy Grail is researching the needs and wants of home buyers....

It's a bit puzzling to drive up to The Reserve at the Merit Club, a development in Libertyville that touts seven floor plans for ranch homes and two plans for...

Imagine looking at a lineup of town homes and not seeing a single garage. No garage doors in front, none in back. What is this? Lincoln Park? Nope. It's Michigan...

Reader Jean SmilingCoyote of Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood took me to task recently for a House Hunter column reviewing a new housing development in Plainfield. "This is tornado country," she...

The signs at Illinois Highway 59 and 95th Street promote Heatherstone East town homes as "Lincoln Park in Naperville." And, to further add urban cachet to this 80-unit development, the...

Don't become too attached to a fresh view Today's parking lot is tomorrow's five- or ten-story condo. Today's scattered blocks of city warehouses, garages and businesses or suburban acres of...