Category: HOA Living

If you serve on your board, you already know the job can sometimes feel like a second career. One day you’re drafting the new budget, the next you’re dealing with building inspections, or mediating a conflict between residents. For a volunt…

The baseline definition of ‘luxury’ in today’s competitive real estate landscape is hazy at best, and constantly shifting. New developments almost universally include the term in its marketing materials, while legacy co-ops along Lake Shore…

Most prospective co-op and condo buyers have a long list of questions to ask about the properties they’re considering, like what’s the monthly maintenance fee? How are the reserves? Does the roof deck get plenty of direct sunlight? How long…

Driven by the work-from-home revolution and an ongoing housing shortage, the Chicagoland metropolitan area has emerged as one of the nation's most active hubs for office-to-residential conversion, often called “adaptive reuse.” Downtown off…

Five years after the catastrophic collapse of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida, that claimed the lives of 98 people, the 1.8-acre beachfront site is slated for an ultra-luxury redevelopment called The Delmore, design…

With summer on the wane and the festive season coming up fast, it’s the perfect time for multifamily boards, managers, and committees to start thinking about holiday social programming. And with the new year right around the corner, why not…

If you’re involved with a condo or hoa—whether overseeing operations, managing properties, or supporting building decisions—you’re constantly balancing budgets, compliance, projects, and resident expectations. The real challenge isn’t just …

The Chicagoland condo market has spent the last decade proving its resilience through a slow and steady trajectory. Unlike more volatile markets in Sun Belt cities, Chicago has transitioned from an era of downtown dominance to a more balanc…

The housing affordability crisis isn’t exactly breaking news; over the past 25 years, stagnant wages and spiralling prices for even modest one- or two-bedroom condo units have raised the bar to homeownership well beyond the reach of most fi…

Residential co-ops have played a small but historically meaningful role in Chicago’s housing landscape since the late 1800s. While cities like New York developed large cooperative housing sectors relatively quickly around the same time, Chi…