Chicago Commercial Real Estate Report, October 2026
Every figure below is computed from the 77 headlines Real Estate Trail’s wire tagged to Chicago from Oct 1 through the end of October 2026 (America/New York), each linked to its source. Nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Coverage by sector
| Sector | Items | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Office | 21 | 27% |
| Multifamily | 15 | 19% |
| Capital | 11 | 14% |
| Retail | 11 | 14% |
| Untagged | 10 | 13% |
| Hospitality | 4 | 5% |
| Industrial | 3 | 4% |
| Mixed Use | 2 | 3% |
67 of 77 items carry a sector tag (87%). Tags are inferred from the headline by regex, first match wins.
Deal-type mix
| Type | Items | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sale | 25 | 32% |
| Financing | 5 | 6% |
| Lease | 10 | 13% |
| Development | 6 | 8% |
| Other transaction | 1 | 1% |
| No transaction cue | 30 | 39% |
Classified from headline cues only. A headline with no transaction cue is counted, not dropped.
Disclosed-price sales
17 priced headlines · 9 distinct dealsLargest by square footage
| Sq ft | Headline | Outlet | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 244,924 | Mid-America Arranges Sale of 244,924 SF Shopping Center in Wheaton, Illinois | REBusiness Online | Oct 23 |
| 66,000 | Brown Commercial Group Negotiates 66K-SF Industrial Transaction in Chicago | Connect CRE | Oct 16 |
Outlets
| Outlet | Items | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Connect CRE | 26 | 34% |
| REBusiness Online | 14 | 18% |
| PR Newswire | 10 | 13% |
| Commercial Observer | 4 | 5% |
| CoStar | 4 | 5% |
| Bisnow | 2 | 3% |
| Hospitality Net | 2 | 3% |
| HousingWire | 2 | 3% |
| Yahoo Finance | 2 | 3% |
| ABC7 Chicago | 1 | 1% |
| Billionaires.Africa | 1 | 1% |
| Chicago Star Media | 1 | 1% |
| CommercialSearch | 1 | 1% |
| Crain's Chicago Business | 1 | 1% |
| ET Now | 1 | 1% |
| REJournals | 1 | 1% |
| The Business Journals | 1 | 1% |
| The Real Deal | 1 | 1% |
| WilmingtonBiz | 1 | 1% |
| 巴士的報 | 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 | 4 |
| Cushman & Wakefield | 2 |
| Newmark | 1 |
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: 14 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.