Mary Ellen Podmolik

Until Wednesday, counselors working on the bleak front lines of Chicago's housing crisis took satisfaction in small victories, the stories of individual families they were able to keep in their...

Bargain-hunting for choice properties, developed or not, is rapidly becoming one of the housing industry's few growth segments. Earlier this month, the National Association of Realtors announced that pending home...

A day after thousands of Americans found their names on a 162-page list of purported victims of Bernard Madoff, questions have arisen about the list's accuracy. The list, filed Wednesday...

Auto insurance premiums are based on risk. Increasingly, so are mortgage interest rates. For a while now, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have basically credited the best borrowers and added...

When Alex Zoghlin put his Glencoe home up for sale last year, he thought his real estate agent was savvy and professional but in one respect she came up short....

Cubs fans may see the day when Chicago's lovable losers have their own cable network. Ticket holders may have access to fancier digs inside the Friendly Confines. And outside Wrigley...

Even before home designers and builders headed to Las Vegas for this week's International Builders Show, they had a pretty clear idea of where residential construction was headed. Yes, the...

The 1890s Stick Victorian in Chicago's Norwood Park neighborhood has what you'd expect in a home of the era: charm, character and certainly, renovation costs. The owner of the 4,000-square-foot,...

It was the sound of running water that prompted neighbors on a Wicker Park block to call city authorities about the single-family home. What they found was water, a lot...