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Top 25 Retail real estate companies based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 180 retail real estate companies headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 6,297 professional contacts across them, including 1,577 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers retail real estate companies 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 17, 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.
The 25 largest retail real estate companies based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,353 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “On August 28th, 2018, GGP Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 621 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A global corporate services leader proudly serving Blackstone Real Estate portfolio companies and investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 570 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Vestian puts real estate to work for businesses worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 439 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ventas is a leading S&P 500 company with approximately 1,400 properties serving the secular megatrend of a large and growing aging population.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bradford Allen is a national commercial real estate firm headquartered in downtown Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Zeller is a vertically integrated commercial real estate investment and development firm that has offered investors exceptional expertise, innovation, and insight to value for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Billions in transactions, proven member of the Chicagoland Real Estate community for 28 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “33 Realty is a fully integrated real estate services company with Leasing, Property Management, Distressed Real Estate Services and Investment and Sales Brokerage operations that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Perform Properties, we redefine retail experiences, shaping vibrant communities where all businesses, big and small, thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Starwood Retail Partners is the retail real estate operating and investment division of Starwood Capital Group, a private investment firm with over $95 billion in assets under…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “McCaffery is a privately owned, full-service commercial real estate company that has been in the business of investing, developing, leasing and managing real estate for more than…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Chicago-based HSA Commercial Real Estate is a diversified, national full-service commercial real estate firm that provides development, management, leasing and client services in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “From its inception as a boutique firm in the industry, NPV Advisors has evolved into one of the largest privately held real estate valuation and advisory services firms in the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Chicago-based Baum Realty Group, LLC is a nationally regarded industry leader with more than 30 years of experience in commercial real estate brokerage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Essex Realty Group is a leading mid-market multifamily brokerage firm based in Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Partners Enterprise Capital (“PEC”) invests in real estate through entity-level ownership of best-in-class real estate operating companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Mon Ami Real Estate is a value-driven investor-operator focused on the overlooked middle market: sub-$30M Class B/C retail & industrial across the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “InCommercial is a real estate investment firm focused on net-leased motor fuel and convenience retail assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Interra Realty is a commercial real estate brokerage firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Fairbourne Properties, LLC is a full service real estate investment and property management company focusing on acquiring, managing and asset managing office, retail, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Northpond focuses on the acquisition, development, and redevelopment of retail and mixed-use properties; located in select urban and suburban markets domestically.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CRER (Chicago Real Estate Resources Inc) is an experienced, full-service commercial real estate firm offering a wide range of services including investment sales & leasing and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HEARN has owned and operated institutional quality commercial real estate throughout the United States for over 40 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
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: retail real estate companies. 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 retail real estate companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of retail real estate companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name retail real estate companies. 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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Retail real estate companies based in Chicago, United States at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
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 180 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 retail real estate companies, 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 “retail real estate companies”. 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 retail real estate companies), 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 retail real estate companies, 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, 1,577 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 17, 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.
Retail real estate companies by metro in the United States
- Retail real estate companies in New York402
- Retail real estate companies in Dallas232
- Retail real estate companies in Houston205
- Retail real estate companies in Los Angeles204
- Retail real estate companies in Chicago180
- Retail real estate companies in Atlanta170
- Retail real estate companies in Miami157
- Retail real estate companies in Austin106
- Retail real estate companies in Denver103
- Retail real estate companies in Charlotte98
- Retail real estate companies in Orlando80
- Retail real estate companies in San Diego80
- Retail real estate companies in Phoenix75
- Retail real estate companies in San Francisco75
- Retail real estate companies in Las Vegas71
- Retail real estate companies in Boston70
- Retail real estate companies in Tampa70
- Retail real estate companies in Newport Beach68
- Retail real estate companies in Fort Lauderdale61
- Retail real estate companies in Indianapolis60
- Retail real estate companies in Irvine58
- Retail real estate companies in San Antonio54
- Retail real estate companies in Nashville51
- Retail real estate companies in Raleigh50
- Retail real estate companies in Scottsdale45
- Retail real estate companies in Boca Raton44
- Retail real estate companies in Washington43
- Retail real estate companies in Beverly Hills41
- Retail real estate companies in Birmingham41
- Retail real estate companies in Columbus41
- Retail real estate companies in Minneapolis41
- Retail real estate companies in Greenville39
- Retail real estate companies in Seattle39
- Retail real estate companies in Jacksonville38
- Retail real estate companies in Philadelphia37
- Retail real estate companies in Portland35
- Retail real estate companies in Louisville33
- Retail real estate companies in Fort Worth32
- Retail real estate companies in Columbia30
- Retail real estate companies in Salt Lake City30
- Retail real estate companies in Rochester29
- Retail real estate companies in Bethesda28
- Retail real estate companies in Pittsburgh28
- Retail real estate companies in Santa Monica28
- Retail real estate companies in West Palm Beach27
- Retail real estate companies in Cincinnati26
- Retail real estate companies in Oklahoma City26
- Retail real estate companies in Charleston25
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 retail real estate companies, 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 retail real estate companies are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 180 retail real estate companies 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?
GGP, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most retail real estate companies?
New York leads with 402 headquartered companies, followed by Dallas (232) and Houston (205).
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 1,577 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 180 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 17, 2026.
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