Mary Ellen Podmolik

At the homes in this neighborhood, you have your own kitchen but you're expected to dine with your neighbors in a large communal room at least a few times a...

If you're questioning the driving skill of the motorist in your rearview mirror -- the one riding your bumper -- you may have reason to be alarmed. Some 41 million...

Homeowners have turned to home stagers over the past decade to spiff up their homes and get them sold faster. Now, companies holding vacant properties are starting to look to...

As buyers are slowly coming back into the housing market, they already know this isn't the market of five years ago. It's not the market of even a year ago,...

For-sale and open-house signs are an annual rite of spring in many communities but not within Chicago, where a long-standing ordinance limits their use. You'd never know there was such...

Anheuser-Busch InBev is out as the domestic beer sponsor at the Chicago Fire's Toyota Park and MillerCoors is in, with the key to its two-year sponsorship being an all-you-can-eat-and-drink pavilion...

Folks walking through the Shops at North Bridge mall can browse the kiosks for hair and skin care products, purses, sunglasses and now, a new home. That's right, a new...

If doctors make the worst patients, do real estate agents make the worst home sellers, or are they the first to take the advice they're giving to clients in the...

Cook County Circuit Court is delaying foreclosure actions against some homeowners as it tries to work through a growing backlog of cases. Chancery Division Presiding Judge Dorothy Kirie Kinnaird notified...

Data released Thursday revealed a sharp increase in Illinois foreclosure activity, as mortgage lenders and servicers let lapse the self-imposed moratoriums they put on foreclosure proceedings while they waited for...