Mary Ellen Podmolik

When does a vacant home for sale, foreclosure or not, have that lived-in look? When someone is living in it. Arnold and Mary Jo Baratz just moved into, but have...

When does a vacant home for sale, foreclosure or not, have that lived-in look? When someone is living in it. Arnold and Mary Jo Baratz just moved into, but have...

Midwest Real Estate Data LLC has decided it wants to be more than a database of home listings for buyers, sellers and real estate agents. It wants to become an...

HGTV and Style Network personality Kelly Edwards, who comes to Chicago on Saturday to talk about do-it-yourself decorating and repurposing, practices what she preaches. The Romeoville native, one of the...

HGTV and Style Network personality Kelly Edwards, who comes to Chicago on Saturday to talk about do-it-yourself decorating and repurposing, practices what she preaches. The Romeoville native, one of the...

In her job, Janet Frasca sees an awful lot of perfectly acceptable materials get hauled out of homes during renovations. Frasca, an interiors coordinator at The Walker Group Ltd. in...

In her job, Janet Frasca sees an awful lot of perfectly acceptable materials get hauled out of homes during renovations. Frasca, an interiors coordinator at The Walker Group Ltd. in...

Housing prices go up and down, but one things seems a constant in many communities: the notion that north is better than south when it comes to the housing market....

Housing prices go up and down, but one things seems a constant in many communities: the notion that north is better than south when it comes to the housing market....