Mary Ellen Podmolik

For four months beginning in September, Chicagoan Celeen Johnson helped special needs children on a school bus by day, slept at a homeless shelter by night and kept her possessions...

It's not just homebuyers that have to have the vision to picture themselves in a certain property. Builders do, too, and there's an awful lot of that going on right...

Homes in the Chicago area have dropped in price, and so has the income needed to purchase them. But that hasn't made it any easier for many working adults to...

Homes in the Chicago area have dropped in price, and so has the income needed to purchase them. But that hasn't made it any easier for many working adults to...

Distressed properties may not be driving the spring home-selling market, but they can be considered a co-pilot. Sales of existing homes in Chicago recorded their sixth consecutive month of year-over-year...

If you're looking for another indication of how the market has changed, look no further than last week's Chicago Association of Realtors' event honoring 2009's top producers. At last year's...

If you're looking for another indication of how the market has changed, look no further than last week's Chicago Association of Realtors' event honoring 2009's top producers. At last year's...

As the number of delinquent borrowers struggling to keep their homes continues to grow, an experiment in a Wicker Park office building is trying to address one of the biggest...

Right now, there's a direct correlation between how many rain barrels a homeowner has and how savvy they are about their home's energy efficiency, says Greg Domel, owner/operator of Midwest...

The number of Chicago-area homeowners who have received permanent mortgage loan modifications under the federal Home Affordable Modification Program increased by 50 percent in February, but the pace at which...