J. Linn Allen

Prime Group Realty Trust, which just sold a $90 million portfolio of industrial property to Toronto-based insurer Manulife, didn't keep the money for long. The Chicago-based real estate investment trust...

The routine has become all too familiar to Chicagoans. A developer comes out with a snazzy marketing brochure for a lofty office Xanadu, gleaming with renderings of a glassy tower...

If there were ever any questions about the prospects for success of developer Dan McLean's River East project east of Michigan Avenue along the north bank of the Chicago River,...

Court bursts ex-Zell executive's $5 million trial balloon Sam Zell was bursting with pleasure Tuesday, happier with a little bedside reading the previous night than if he'd scored a deal...

Julien J. Studley Inc.'s effective rental index, which measures the actual rents tenants pay after concessions and the actual rents landlords collect after operating expenses and taxes, shows that owning...

The new deals giving consumers free computers if they will sign up for an Internet service have a parallel in the office building market. At least two companies are offering...

While the argument rages over whether Internet shopping will replace brick-and-mortar retail, the industrial real estate world is licking its chops over the explosion of electronic commerce. Michael Brennan, president...

Equity Residential Properties Trust, a titan of suburban garden apartment complexes where residents--stereotypically young and fun-loving--loll by their pools, is starting to go after less trendy demographic sectors as well....

People in the shopping center business and the industry analysts who observe their activities tend to take a "wait and see" attitude about the impact of the Internet on retail...

On the eve of a hearing in which hundreds were expected to plead for the preservation of the historic Medinah Temple, city officials and the temple's owner have agreed to...