Adrian Brizuela

Madison, Wisconsin’s apartment vacancy rate rose over the past year even as renters snapped up more units, as a wave of new construction added apartments faster than the market could absorb them.

Commercial real estate sales in Milwaukee continue to rebound, with buyers acquiring properties at a faster pace than in recent years, driven by rising investor confidence and easing borrowing ...

Annual office leasing in the Chicago central business district currently stands at approximately 8.6 million square feet, indicating that leasing broadly settled into a lower range than before the ...

Chicago’s office market continues to face demand challenges, but vacancy trends have diverged significantly between the broader market and its highest-quality properties.

Milwaukee’s multifamily market has strengthened considerably over the past year, with vacancy declining as renter demand has accelerated and the pace of new supply has moderated.

Chicago apartment rent growth continues to significantly outpace the national market, with asking rents rising 3.1% year over year compared with 1.2% nationally.

Chicago office property sales totaled about $2.5 billion over the past 12 months, a 65% increase from a year earlier. While activity is rebounding from several years of unusually weak sales, the ...

Commercial real estate sales in Chicago continue to rebound, with investors buying and selling properties at a pace similar to what the market saw before the pandemic.

Chicago's retail leasing market has picked up over the past year as businesses rent bigger spaces and sign longer leases.

Apartment construction in Chicago has slowed after a short-lived pickup in 2025, though it’s holding steadier than the broader U.S. market.

Chicago apartment sales totaled $6.4 billion over the past year, up 34% from a year earlier. That growth is much faster than the national pace, where deal volume held roughly steady at about $125 ...

Chicago’s industrial leasing market is regaining traction after a period of subdued activity, as tenants move forward with decisions that had been delayed amid uncertainty around trade policy and ...

Roughly two-thirds of apartment units completed across the Chicago metropolitan area over the past year were in suburban communities, underscoring how developers are increasingly targeting the ...

Industrial rent growth in the Chicago market has moderated considerably from the elevated levels recorded during the pandemic-era logistics boom, though fundamentals remain stronger than national ...

Chicago’s retail market is tightening, but much of that improvement is coming from older, outdated properties being removed rather than a surge in new demand.

Retail development remains slow in Chicago and across the country, though the local pipeline trails the broader U.S. market by a wide margin.

Demolitions now play a central role in Chicago’s effort to stabilize a struggling office market, particularly across the suburbs where large, outdated campuses have seen demand fall the most.

Chicago’s multifamily rents are growing faster than in most other big U.S. markets, and that’s largely because the metropolitan area hasn’t built many new apartments in recent years even while demand ...

Chicago developers are taking more chances on building warehouses without signed tenants than they were a couple of years ago, but they’re still proceeding cautiously.

Population growth in the Chicago metro area continued in 2025, but it slowed sharply from the year before.