Chicago Commercial Real Estate Report, September 2026
Every figure below is computed from the 88 headlines Real Estate Trail’s wire tagged to Chicago from Sep 1 through the end of September 2026 (America/New York), each linked to its source. Nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Coverage by sector
| Sector | Items | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Multifamily | 20 | 23% |
| Untagged | 18 | 20% |
| Capital | 17 | 19% |
| Retail | 15 | 17% |
| Industrial | 7 | 8% |
| Office | 5 | 6% |
| Hospitality | 3 | 3% |
| Land | 2 | 2% |
| Mixed Use | 1 | 1% |
70 of 88 items carry a sector tag (80%). Tags are inferred from the headline by regex, first match wins.
Deal-type mix
| Type | Items | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sale | 32 | 36% |
| Financing | 14 | 16% |
| Lease | 6 | 7% |
| Development | 8 | 9% |
| Other transaction | 0 | 0% |
| No transaction cue | 28 | 32% |
Classified from headline cues only. A headline with no transaction cue is counted, not dropped.
Disclosed-price sales
18 priced headlines · 12 distinct dealsLargest by square footage
Outlets
| Outlet | Items | Share |
|---|---|---|
| REBusiness Online | 27 | 31% |
| Connect CRE | 21 | 24% |
| PR Newswire | 14 | 16% |
| Commercial Observer | 4 | 5% |
| CoStar | 3 | 3% |
| Asset Securitization Report | 2 | 2% |
| Bisnow | 2 | 2% |
| Hospitality Net | 2 | 2% |
| HousingWire | 2 | 2% |
| Multifamily Dive | 2 | 2% |
| The Registry | 2 | 2% |
| Construction Dive | 1 | 1% |
| Crain's Chicago Business | 1 | 1% |
| Hartford Business Journal | 1 | 1% |
| Shopping Center Business | 1 | 1% |
| The Real Deal | 1 | 1% |
| Yahoo Finance | 1 | 1% |
| Yield PRO | 1 | 1% |
Outlet names are canonicalized so syndicated and regional editions of one publisher count together.
Firms mentioned
A mention is a headline that names the firm, whatever its role in the deal. It is not a transaction count and does not imply a broker, lender or buyer relationship.
| Firm | Headlines |
|---|---|
| JLL | 5 |
| Cushman & Wakefield | 2 |
| Marcus & Millichap | 2 |
| Newmark | 2 |
Each table is produced by one named query in src/lib/figures.ts: the reporting threshold by marketMonthGate, coverage by sector by marketMonthSectorCounts, deal-type mix by marketMonthDealTypeMix, disclosed-price sales by marketMonthPricedSales, square footage by marketMonthLargestBySqft, outlets by marketMonthOutletShare and firm mentions by marketMonthFirmMentions. The month window comes from monthBoundsUtc, America/New York.
Excluded from the priced tables: headlines that state more than one distinct money figure, non-USD amounts, per-unit or per-square-foot prices, rows suppressed by the relevance gate, and duplicate reports of the same deal (same market, value within one percent, published within a week), which are folded into one row with the other outlets listed beneath it.
Excluded from every table on this page: 15 headlines the wire’s tagger assigned to this market whose headline names a different state, market or city (the tagger reads the story excerpt, so a firm’s home city can mis-tag a deal elsewhere). The rule is hasLocationConflict in the same file, applied before counting.
No figure on this page is produced by a language model. The editor’s note, where present, is written by a person and contains no numbers. Summed deal volume, per-firm deal credit, market share, cap rates and price-per-square-foot medians are deliberately not published: the corpus is a sample of what named outlets chose to report, not the market. Sources and methodology.