Mary Umberger

Suburbia never seems to catch a break, at least in popular culture. In song ("Little boxes ... made of ticky tacky and they all look the same"), on TV ("Desperate...

Is the suburb you're living in a future slum? Should you shove a for-sale sign into your front yard, pack your bags and light out for some lively urban neighborhood...

Is the suburb you're living in a future slum? Should you shove a for-sale sign into your front yard, pack your bags and light out for some lively urban neighborhood...

Websites that cater to homeowners who are thinking about remodeling might want to pause and ponder whether they're actually discouraging site visitors from going through the upheaval of, say, renovating...

Websites that cater to homeowners who are thinking about remodeling might want to pause and ponder whether they're actually discouraging site visitors from going through the upheaval of, say, renovating...

If all the dire warnings about your health haven't motivated you to quit smoking, perhaps a jolt to the real estate pocketbook would do the trick. A couple of recent...

If all the dire warnings about your health haven't motivated you to quit smoking, perhaps a jolt to the real estate pocketbook would do the trick. A couple of recent...

If you build it, will they come? These days, the answer in the Chicago area is a very big "it depends." Builders who would revert to the olden days of...

We now interrupt our regular coverage of the serious real estate world (because, trust us, little happens in August anyway) to focus on the industry's silly season, which seems to...