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Couponing comes to housing
Would you pay $51 to get a $1,699 stainless steel refrigerator when you buy a house from a major builder in Tampa, Fla.?
Get the full story >>Homebuyers frustrated by cash-wielding investors
After getting the good news on a Friday night that their offer topped all the others on a foreclosure in Vacaville, Calif., they wanted as...
Get the full story >>Homes break cookie-cutter mold
Start with a standard home design and make it distinctively your own.
Get the full story >>15- or 30-year loan: Which adds up?
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has been a stalwart of today's real estate market for homeowners looking to refinance. Now it's facing...
Get the full story >>The not-so-big American dream
We're besieged by the Four Horsemen of the Housing Apocalypse: unemployment, falling home prices, stingy lending standards, foreclosure. Yet...
Get the full story >>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,...
Get the full story >>Multigenerations, one home
For many of us, and for many reasons, home is getting to be a more crowded space.
Get the full story >>Time to test housing market
Demand is low; supply is high. In early summer, the National Association of Realtors reported a 9.5 months' supply of homes. That's how long...
Get the full story >>Market ripe for green loans
In the housing industry, green building has become a familiar phrase. But green lending? Not so much.
Get the full story >>Many workers still priced out of housing market
The Chicago area's ranking in a new study of home affordability looks promising, until you start to look at paychecks.
Get the full story >>9 reasons to buy new
As the mortgage crisis continues to inundate the market with distressed properties, today's house hunter has no shortage of cheap,...
Get the full story >>Getting appraisal, price to match
Having a contract fall through is tough on the buyer, and the seller might have contracted to buy a new property in anticipation of...
Get the full story >>Fishing for vacation homes
Is now the time to buy the vacation home of your dreams? That cottage by the lake, in the woods or on a golf course is a lot more affordable...
Get the full story >>Buying a home in a slow market
Anecdotal evidence suggests that we're moving into a summer slowdown. It's not unusual for the home-sale market to slow in July and August,...
Get the full story >>College Condos 101: Parents buying property to cut student housing costs
When Tamara Harney's 18-year-old son, Patrick, opted to attend Columbia College this fall, Harney had two choices. She could pony up for...
Get the full story >>Tighter lending standards the new normal
For mortgage borrowers, it's one of those good news/bad news moments.
Get the full story >>Wedding registry lets you cash in on new home
Wouldn't it be nice to channel some of the cash spent on toasters, mixers and dishes toward the newlyweds' first homes?
Get the full story >>A little town with a lot of appeal
Note to movie location scouts: La Grange Park offers the perennially Normal Rockwell-ish streetscapes you want for movies set in the 20th...
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