Mary Ellen Podmolik

Company marketing budgets are typically the first to take a haircut when times get tough. Nevertheless, real estate offices, among the most affected by the housing crisis, are finding creative...

At 82, Katherine Schumert has lived in the same home in the western suburbs for half her life, sharing it first with her husband and children and now as a...

Ted Snyder was having a great time last week teasing the crowd at the University of Chicago business school's coming-out party to announce a record donation and name change. Without...

It's not that home builders aren't counting down the days until the end of 2008, one of the more miserable years in recent memory for the industry. It's just that...

Imagine you operate a successful store. But then your customer base dries up and your suppliers no longer send you enough goods for what remaining customers are coming through the...

Make no mistake about it. Credit is tight, mortgage rates are only fair and home values may not have bottomed out. Still, there are consumers out there confident enough to...

The Chicago Spire's penthouse may be sold but there is growing doubt whether the project will rise out of the hole that's been created at 400 N. Lake Shore Drive....

With home values falling and a rough economy denting people's wallets, it doesn't take much for a homeowner to get underwater on a mortgage, owing more on the loan than...

Real estate agents are commonly thought of as salespeople but what they're really morphing into is housing consultants. Consider the morass of ever-changing details and acronyms that most people --...

When Jan Hlavacek put her Aurora home up for sale a month ago, she wasn't the first "for sale" sign that went up on the block. Her next-door neighbor and...