Genevieve Buck

First impressions count -- or have some sort of impact, so they say -- on job interviews, blind dates, first views of a Web site's home page or chance meetings...

On prime lakefront properties stretching from Belmont Avenue to Irving Park Road, only two modern towers have remained rental buildings in a lucrative East Lake View market. And now there...

With the scramble still on for downtown living and rooms with a view, a 20-story historic building at 6 N. Michigan Ave. promises to be a very hot property as...

Bill and Marla Rochedieu had no intention of buying a home in a retirement community "this soon. We had no pressing reason," she said, noting that she's 45, he's 61...

Visitors "oooh" and "aaahh" and some even gasp -- honestly, I heard them -- as they enter the foyer with the 19-foot-high ceiling, then see the living area's curved wall...

You're standing in the bathroom of the model of your dream home, taking a final look at that whirlpool bath you've been longing for. It's your last long look before...

The people who do the marketing and publicity for Greenview on the Park apparently like to play with words. One ad for the 35-unit town home development in Chicago's East...

It's bound to be memorable: a condo model with a master bathroom that has a vanity with not just one, but two, curvy red sinks that appear to be undulating...

There are three furnished single-family-home models in the new Holden Park community in south suburban Matteson. And, it was almost too easy to choose my favorite. So, I went back,...

To anyone driving on South Halsted Street looking for the site and sales trailer of Pilsen Gateway condominiums: Be alert. For those not familiar with the territory, it's pretty easy...