Sharon Stangenes

Change is slow in home design and construction, but there are some fashion swings. Ranch homes, once the rage, were followed by a preference for two-story styles. Townhouses, which have...

What does it take to lure owners of large suburban homes into a vertical condominium? Builder Joe DePaulo is betting on large rooms, big windows, low maintenance, heated indoor parking...

Builder Chris Noon can't say when the cost of a kitchen for his custom-home clients reached the combined price of four automobiles, but he knows "where we used to spend...

About 10 years ago, I attended a meeting in the walnut-paneled editorial conference room at the Tribune as part of a group listening to a plan to revitalize Bronzeville. It...

Manufactured housing has been a staple of jokes for years, but it is no laughing matter to the estimated 22 million Americans, many of them 55 and older, who live...

My first impression of The Village in Burns Harbor about 30 miles east of Chicago's Loop was that this development looks like a welcoming, even fun, place to live. The...

Emma and Debra Robinson could give testimonials to the joys of energy efficiency in a home. The mother-and-daughter duo decided it was time to leave their 50-year-old Chicago bungalow when...

The Chicago housing boom has shifted south. Property on the South Side and in the south suburbs is hot, with price appreciation in the year ended June 30 exceeding the...

The no-haggle home. That's what Lennar Chicago, a division of the Miami-based Lennar Corp., has been trying to introduce here. One of the nation's biggest builders, Lennar is the parent...

What's happening: Investors on Thursday continued snapping up shares in mobile- and modular-home-manufacturing companies. Champion Enterprises Inc.'s stock Thursday hit a 52-week high of $13.50, while shares of Nobility Homes...