Chicago Real Estate

Business to boom on Southport Corridor

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Shopping bags are about to clog even more workplace refrigerators and packed CTA cars around the Southport Brown Line this summer. A slew of new businesses, including high-end yoga store Lululemon, is slated to open a new location on the corner of Addison...

Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health, Chicago Restaurants, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking

Kimberly McBroom's Blog

Tuesday, May 1I enjoyed a trip down memory lane last night, when I had the pleasure of serving as emcee for William Byrd High School's Open House.  I am a 1989 graduate of Byrd, and loved seeing the many improvements made to the school. As part of a...

Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Kidnapping, Prednisone (drug), Ears and Hearing, Vaccines

Taking the long view on Chicago's housing market

Take a look at the homebuilding that's going on around the Chicago area and you'll see that most of it is infill development, teardowns and multifamily construction, particularly of apartments. Avanti Properties Group is taking a longer-term view. The...

Tags: Finance, Federal Housing Administration, Chicago Mortgages, Atlantic Ocean, Realty

Shopping and dining right around the corner

Chalk it up to high gas prices, new urbanism or a nostalgic longing for the downtowns of old, but many homebuyers want to be close to their favorite hangouts. Instead of spending gas and time driving into town, they want to live in town, near their...

Tags: Health, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Streeterville, Lifestyle and Leisure, Starbucks Corp.

All Christmas all the time on TV

Contingency sale offers becoming more acceptable

For homeowners looking to upgrade — or downsize — their residences, it's a difficult chicken-or-egg question: Which comes first, buying a new place to live or selling an old one? Each situation presents a potentially thorny set of issues. Buy...

Tags: Homes, Finance, Property, Chicago Mortgages, Concerts

Cubs outfielder buys Wheaton mansion

New Chicago Cubs outfielder David DeJesus, who last month signed a two-year, $10 million deal with an option for 2014, has paid $1.05 million for a 15-room, all-brick mansion in Wheaton. DeJesus, 31, played this past season for the Oakland A's and...

Tags: Chicago Cubs, Homes, Real Estate, Rentals, Punishment

Update: World, U.S. news briefs for Thursday, Dec. 8

Ex-Penn State coach Sandusky makes bail BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was released from jail Thursday after spending a night behind bars following a new round of child sex abuse charges filed against...

Tags: U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Plan B (drug), Jose Reyes, Democratic Party, Money and Monetary Policy

Pockets of hope in housing despair

The market has not been kind to the home seller. The bad news continued last week when the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index reported that Chicago-area homes prices fell in November for the third month in a row, to a level not seen since May 2001....

Tags: Chicago Tribune, Inventories, Homes, Foreclosures, Property

2011 Chicago-area home sales up slightly, but real estate agents guarded

Tags: Chicago Tribune, Finance, Northern Trust Corporation, Kraft Foods, Inc., Money and Monetary Policy

Homebuyers pick up bargains in August

Sales of existing single-family homes in the Chicago area rose 27.6 percent in August from their year-earlier pace, helped by realistic, opportunistic buyers like Danielle and Andrew Ferguson. The west suburban couple, after looking for more than a year,...

Tags: Real Estate, Homes, Rentals, Chicago, Condos

JD Power ratings for builders draw a blank

For each of the last 14 Septembers, JD Power and Associates has published its annual report on homebuilder customer-satisfaction ratings. There will be no such report this year. The company, whose ratings are well-reported and constitute a sort of gold...

Tags: Real Estate, Homes, Fannie Mae, Consumers