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Top 25 Commercial real estate lenders based in Chicago, United States

Name: Commercial real estate lenders based in Chicago, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 16, 2026 89 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 89 commercial real estate lenders headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 859 professional contacts across them, including 540 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers commercial real estate lenders headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 16, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest commercial real estate lenders based in Chicago, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 89 commercial real estate lenders based in Chicago, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 16, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to commercial real estate lenders: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Renovo Financial	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	201-500	348 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Employing a one-stop shop model, Renovo offers residential real estate investors a full suite of loan programs, including single family and multi-family rehab, new construction…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
2	NXT Capital	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	51-200	103 contacts →
	Partial evidence “NXT Capital is a direct lender with a specialized focus on high-quality middle-market solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
3	NRC Realty & Capital Advisors, LLC	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	26 contacts →
	Strong evidence “NRC Realty & Capital Advisors, LLC provides a full array of real estate and financial advisory services, and specializes in the accelerated sale of commercial and residential real…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
4	FMS Investor Financing	Strong evidence	Chicago, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	51-200	24 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Welcome to FMS Investor Financing, your premier source for business purpose loans designed specifically for real estate investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
5	Greenstone Partners	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	21 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Leading commercial real estate brokerage firm Greenstone Partners has served the needs of private and institutional investors for over a decade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
6	Akara Partners, LLC	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1-10	18 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Akara Partners, LLC is a vertically integrated real estate platform that combines Investment Management, Development and Advisory Services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
7	MAG Mile Capital	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Aries Conlon Capital is now Mag Mile Capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
8	JDI Realty	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Strong evidence “JDI is a well-capitalized, opportunistic real estate private equity firm with a nationwide reputation for speed, flexibility, innovation, and reliability.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
9	Cambridge Realty Capital Companies	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Combining our vast industry knowledge & capital markets expertise, we at Cambridge provide proven financing solutions to senior housing owners and investors to help them develop…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
10	IBT Group LLC	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1-10	14 contacts →
	Strong evidence “IBT Group of Companies is a full service real estate development and asset management firm that operates within the continental United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
11	Incubation Capital Partners	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	9 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Incubation Capital Partners (“Incucap”) is a one-stop shop for entrepreneurial real estate managers, providing cohesive solutions across financial capital, human capital, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
12	Conlon & CO	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1-10	9 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Est.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
13	Crayton Advisors	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	9 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Crayton Advisors is a boutique real estate investment and advisory firm focused on acquiring and managing office, multifamily, retail and hotel/resort assets in major markets…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
14	Echo Real Estate Capital, INC	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
15	Murphy Real Estate Services, LLC	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Murphy Real Estate Services, LLC focuses on generating development opportunities in the multifamily, hospitality and office sectors across the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
16	Continental Lease Advisors	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “CLA represents national, regional and local equity and debt investors in connection with their acquisition, ownership, operation, management, and financing of commercial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
17	Alpha Capital CRE	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	7 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Alpha Capital CRE was formed in 2008 by Michael Riley and Anthony Longo under its predecessor name, Alpha Alternatives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
18	Storebuild, LLC	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “WHY WE EXIST Consistently delivering outsized results at scale requires an unfair advantage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
19	Hardwell Capital	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Headquartered in Chicago, Hardwell Capital is a commercial mortgage banking firm with correspondent lending relationships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
20	Mark Goodman & Associates, INC	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
21	The Lord Companies, L.L.C	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	11-50	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
22	Clopton Capital Commercial Mortgage Debt & Equity	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Clopton Capital is a nationwide commercial mortgage broker providing efficient & competitive liquidity in the form of both loans and equity to owners of commercial property.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
23	More Properties Group	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “MoRE Properties Group is an entrepreneurial company that is focused on developing and redeveloping retail, office, industrial and mixed-use properties.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
24	Armitage Street LLC	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Founded in 2012, Armitage Street LLC is a direct lender specializing in bridge and construction financing for residential and small-balance commercial real estate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
25	Crosstown Real Estate Advisors, LLC	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 16, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We are a private real estate investment, property management and brokerage firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: commercial real estate lenders. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names commercial real estate lenders.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of commercial real estate lenders, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name commercial real estate lenders. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Commercial real estate lenders based in Chicago, United States at a glance

As of Sep 16, 2026

62.9%Verified-email coverage

9.7Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

425.8%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 16, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 89 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among commercial real estate lenders, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “commercial real estate lenders”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names commercial real estate lenders), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among commercial real estate lenders, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 540 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Commercial real estate lenders by metro in the United States

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names commercial real estate lenders, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many commercial real estate lenders are there based in Chicago, United States?

RevenueBase identified 89 commercial real estate lenders headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Renovo Financial, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most commercial real estate lenders?

New York leads with 379 headquartered companies, followed by Miami (142) and Los Angeles (123).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 540 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 89 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.

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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.