Sharon Stangenes

Is a seven-story condominium building tall enough to have penthouses? I was intrigued enough to drive down Lake Shore Drive to 47th Street and then west to Drexel Boulevard to...

When Mike Bychowsky and his wife, Jennifer, decided to make the move from their old home to a newly built one, they didn't have to look far for a real...

While the decision to sign for a new home is fairly straightforward for first-time buyers who are exchanging rent for a monthly mortgage payment, the choice is more worrisome to...

Nearly 100 volunteers had a hammer--and saw--in building frames for three houses at IBM Plaza in Chicago. The frames, each to be used for a 1,200-square-foot three-bedroom home, were built...

Go for the ranch. Buy the two-story. That is the tale of most home buyers who head out to a new-homes sales office in search of all-on-one-floor living, builders say....

St. Charles builder Al Lacey likes the lines of traditional architecture, particularly the "simple but elegant" homes of Colonial Williamsburg and Lynchburg, Va. "I take pictures of old houses," he...

Just days after the U.S. Census Bureau reported that a growing number of Chicago-area residents are spending more than a third of their incomes on housing, more than 2,000 people...

After dressing up model homes as much as possible, a handful of builders are turning to lavish landscaping to add to their appeal to buyers. A case in point is...

There was not one Pocket Fisherman in sight, but the lure of seeing the warehouse that once had been home to thousands of such gadgets as well as Veg-O-Matics and...

Like so many model homes, the four houses at the fledgling Legacy Square development in Park Forest look like a movie set. But unlike most new-home models that are perched...