Wayne Faulkner

I guess you could call it capitalism at work. Where there's a need, ingenious Americans create a product to fill it. The need, in this instance, is to sell homes...

Those of us who try to get away from the congestion and work pressures of Chicago have only a few weeks left to dangle our feet in the lakes and...

When the Kellogg mansions on the 2900 block of North Lake Shore Drive were demolished in 1983 after a bitter preservation struggle, a lot of people were upset. They were...

Who would pay a high price for a Chicago two-flat with rents essentially unchanged here for the last five years? Well, a whole lot of folks, it seems. The market...

You've seen photos, taken by a satellite high above Earth, that show incredible details of some foreign military installation. Well, you too can do a little reconnaissance if you're looking...

Just when we thought condo conversions were turning the rental high-rise into a dinosaur, along come three new ones for downtown Chicago. And that's in addition to the Shoreham at...

With more than a dozen condo buildings being marketed or planned for Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood, a reasonable person might ask: How are all these new condominiums going to affect the...

What kind of effect do condo conversions and construction of new ones have on the apartment rental market here? One seems to be an increase in the supply of neophyte...

What's driving the luxury housing market other than a lot of money? "It's demographics," says Orren Pickell, head of Orren Pickell Designers & Builders in Lincolnshire. There are a lot...

What's the news in another mansion going up for sale in these times, when $1 million is no longer a luxury home? Perhaps it the home's history or architecture. Who...