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Chicago housing market hurdle: As baby boomers stay put, millennials struggle to find starter homes

June 19, 2019 at 7:47 p.m.

Looking for a nice midcentury modern in the western suburbs and wondering why those stubborn baby boomers won't move out and on so people like you can move in? Meet...

Buying or selling a home? A new lawsuit could change how much you pay the Realtor

August 17, 2019 at 5:04 a.m.

Why should a home seller have to pay for the buyer's side of the transaction, especially when the buyer's expenses include negotiating against the seller? That apparent conflict of interest...

Cathleen Staley, owner of Simplify, organizes a walk-in closet for client Shannon, who recently moved into this Chicago home, on April 29, 2019.

Moving is the worst. Chicago ‘concierge’ services aim to smooth the process

May 31, 2019 at 8:44 a.m.

Hold on to the memories, not to the stuff. That's Alison Moriarity's household management philosophy, but as much as she lives it daily, it still took extra help downsizing from...

Porcupine Mountains Folk School is in a sylvan setting at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Michigan's largest state park at roughly 60,000 acres.

Summer camp for adults: Learn a skill, make friends at these 5 Midwest creative destinations

August 23, 2019 at 5:22 p.m.

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up," Pablo Picasso famously said. For Sharon Krishnan, 59, the answer was ukulele school....

How work-life programs stall women’s careers, pay

May 31, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

Every working mother knows the feeling: The clock ticks toward the top of the hour, the hour being the moment when you officially are off that clock. The meeting drags...

Viridiana Rodriguez and her daughter, Isabella, 8, read together in their Midway neighborhood home.

No, you don’t need 20 percent. How Chicago millennials are buying first homes with down payment programs.

May 20, 2019 at 9:02 a.m.

Now settled in her career as a teacher, Viridiana Rodriguez needed to fit just one more piece of adult life into place: finding a permanent home for herself and her...

Roy and Lori Hawthorne's kitchen, designed by Gladys Schanstra.

Home equity could pay for that new kitchen, so why are Americans slow to borrow? Blame the Great Recession.

May 20, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.

Over the past 28 years, Roy Hawthorne, 51, of Hinsdale, has bought and sold four houses of his own and several additional properties, as a serial real estate investor. He...

Automated valuation models (AVMs) are often used to determine a home's value, but real estate professionals agree that only an experienced, well-informed appraiser or agent can craft a compelling case to support a sale price that will be accepted by a lender.

Algorithm vs. appraiser: Estimating a home’s value can be complicated. Here’s what sellers should know.

May 20, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.

What’s your house worth? To whom? When, and how? The moving parts that go into the estimated value of a house are legendary. Factors from the obvious (location, size and...

Catherine Pilgrim's living room in Irving Park. Pilgrim re-did the floors and the fireplace before she moved in.

Expectations vs. reality: Keep it cool when buying, selling or renovating a home

May 20, 2019 at 8:57 a.m.

The emotional stress of buying, selling and renovating homes is legendary. Chicagoan Catherine Pilgrim thought she was holding up pretty well. Then came the kitchen faucet. That would be the...

President Donald Trump argues about border security with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as Vice President Mike Pence sits nearby in the Oval Office on Dec. 11, 2018.

Pelosi-Trump exchange put the rudeness of ‘talking over’ on full display

May 31, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

If you’re a woman who talks, you’ve been talked over. Run over in meetings, primarily by men, whose culture perpetuates mutual interruption as a form of nonverbal communication. Ignored, only...

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