Wayne Faulkner

It's an age of huge houses, huge price tags, huge federal deficits, huge SUVs. It sometimes seems our whole society is on steroids. In real estate, though, you'll be happy...

Investing in real estate is all the rage. And, if you think it's just those with $1 million laying around who are buying property to rent out or to use...

With apologies to Andy Rooney: What's so special about granite countertops and maple cabinets if everyone under the sun is offering them in their new homes? Why do city builders...

When you think of the CTA's Blue Line, most think of the end of the line -- O'Hare International Airport. But travel to the other end of the line and...

They're sleepers. They're towns, subdivisions, even buildings that offer many of the things you're looking for in a home but often are overlooked in favor of more mainstream or glamorous...

It's official: 2004 was a record year for sales of existing homes in Illinois. The statewide total of 126,946 sales was up 4.3 percent from the 2003, according to the...

The outlook for Chicago-area real estate is favorable, according to most people in the housing industry. Sales and prices are up. But so is the time it takes to sell...

America is full of subdivisions and even towns whose names sound idyllic, but whose reality is anything but. For instance, the livestock found in most any development with "farm" in...

A chair is still a chair, even when there's no one sitting there; But a chair is not a house, and a house is not a home When there's no...

Considering we're far from the Sun Belt, the desert or warm ocean waters, the Chicago area is pretty hot -- its real estate, that is. While our house price appreciation...