This article showcases our top picks for the best Illinois based Real Estate companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Real Estate industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Illinois Real Estate Startups
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Obie
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Obie is an insurtech startup that offers insurance and risk management for real estate investors.
Arturo
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Arturo is a deep learning spin-out from a Fortune 500 company focused on delivering highly accurate measurement and predictive data.
Avail
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Avail provides a platform containing tools and resources that help streamline the landlord/tenant relationship.
Cohesion
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Vertically integrated smart building SaaS platform
Family Office
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Family Office Trust Company | Private capital creating value via non-traditional partnerships, capital structures, and talent.
Buildout
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Buildout is an end-to-end solution that provides a marketing platform for commercial real estate.
Jones Lang LaSalle
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Jones Lang LaSalle, a financial and professional services firm, specializes in commercial real estate services and investment management.
Groundbreaker
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Groundbreaker offers an all-in-one real estate investment software to automate fundraising, investment management, and investor relations.
Cityzenith
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Cityzenith is a technology startup that provides data visualization platform software and applications for IoT and Smart Cities.
Purchasing Platform
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Purchasing Platform saves money and simplifies purchasing with negotiated pricing on millions of products for real estate operators.
Truss
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Truss is an online marketplace to help small and medium sized business owners find, tour, and lease space.
NestEgg
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NestEgg is a real estate company that helps independent real estate investors create wealth by streamlining the property management process.
Mobile Doorman
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Mobile Doorman is an apartment community apps, custom-branded to property’s needs.
Independence Realty Trust Inc
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Independence Realty Trust is a publicly traded REIT that owns and manages communities containing more than 17,000 apartment homes.
Enodo
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Enodo is an automated underwriting platform for multifamily real estate
MortgageHippo
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MortgageHippo is a B2B fintech company delivering white-labeled web and mobile-ready digital platforms to banks and mortgage lenders.
Renovo Financial
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Renovo is the premier provider of financial and strategic support for real estate investors
Rentgrata
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Rentgrata is a messaging platform that connects prospective renters with current residents of apartment communities.
CNA Insurance Company
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CNA is an Insurance Company, selling insurance products and services.
Heartland Bank and Trust
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Heartland Bank and Trust is a banking firm offering housing lending services.
Zerv
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Zerv enables a smartphone to open any access controlled door without updating the existing hardware.
ParqEx
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ParqEx is a SaaS & IoT based innovative technology platform for parking management, payment processing & access control
Inland Private Capital
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Inland Private Capital offers replacement properties exchange transactions and multiple-owner real estate investment solutions.
GoldenPeaks Capital
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GoldenPeaks Capital is an investment group.
Apartment Jet
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Apartment Jet is a short term property management software that offers solutions to owners and operators in apartment industry.
Abode
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Abode is a user-friendly app that eases the home buying process and is especially helpful to first-time buyers.
GreenPoint Partners
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GreenPoint Partners delivers energy management and sustainability consulting services for commercial real estate owners.
John Deere
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Deere & Company is an American corporation that manufactures agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery.
Senior Lifestyle
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Senior Lifestyle is a family-owned company that promotes healthy, happy residents through an unmatched level of service.
ChoreRelief
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ChoreRelief helps homeowners and contractors connect on-demand and on-budget.
National Association of REALTORS
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National Association of Realtors is America’s largest trade association.
US LBM
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US LBM is a building materials company that provides lumber and building materials.
ShowingTime
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ShowingTime is SaaS technology provider that develops a web-based real estate lead capture, calendaring, and notification engine.
The BSC Group
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The BSC Group provides self storage and commercial real estate financing solutions.
Cartavi
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Cartavi is a cloud-based document-sharing solution and a smartphone app designed for real estate professionals.
Guaranteed Rate
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Guaranteed Rate provides mortgage lending services such as home loans and home mortgage refinancing services.
West Town Bancorp
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West Town Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for West Town Savings Bank
Apartments.com
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Apartments.com is an online resource providing information and images of apartments available for rent in U.S. cities.
RentHub
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RentHub is a Real-Time Price Guide for Apartment Rents.
Inhabitr
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Inhabitr is a furniture rental platform that lets users rent furniture at an affordable price.
Equityroots, Inc.
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Real estate crowdfunding for branded hotel assets
Accend
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Accend’s business model is sustainable characterized by the continual mobility of a large segment of their population.
Ventas
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Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR), an S&P 500 company, is a leading real estate investment trust (REIT),
INTREN
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INTREN is a construction company providing construction and management services.
Edify Investment Technologies
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Edify Investment Technologies develops and provides software solutions for real estate industry.
NativeERP
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NativeERP is a real estate enterprise solution company.
Brownfield Listings
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Brownfield Listings is a nationwide property marketplace & project workspace for real estate with reuse challenges.
inRentive
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inRentive is a cloud-based platform that facilitates the management of multifamily housing listings and vacancy content.
LeaseMaid
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LeaseMaid is handle the chores of leasing apartments.
Baker & McKenzie
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Baker & McKenzie is a business law firm that offers legal advisory services in diverse categories.
Parafin
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Parafin specializes in real estate development and generative design technology.
Properties
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Properties is an independent real estate brokerage firm that offers local homebuyers and sellers a service for their real estate needs.
Realtors Property Resource
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Realtors Property Resource is a Chicago-based real estate database providing company.
SIRVA
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SIRVA provides mobility services to corporate customers, individual consumers, and military and government agencies worldwide.
Nekst
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Nekst is a real estate web application seeks to improve the efficiency of the home buying and selling experience.
Home Partners of America
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Home Partners of America is a Chicago-based real estate enterprise.
LaSalle Investment Management
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LaSalle Investment Management operates as a global real estate investment manager.
Nine Four Ventures
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Nine Four Ventures is a vertically-integrated, multi-stage real estate technology fund.
Sycamore Media
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Sycamore Media Holdings is a media startup that focuses on promoting entrepreneurship
Dream Kitchen
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One of the biggest obstacles to starting a food business in Illinois is the high cost of setting up a commercial kitchen.
Appoet
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Appoet is a mobile developer and publisher focused on augmented reality and hyper-local discoverability technologies.
CBRE
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CBRE is a vertically integrated global commercial real estate services and investment firm.
Equity Residential
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Equity Residential (EQR) is a real estate investment trust (REIT).
AptAmigo
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AptAmigo is the #1 Luxury Apartment Locator Service in Chicago, Denver, & Atlanta.
Gozent
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gozent is a web service for managing residential apartment rentals.
Digs
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Digs offers financial tools that empower consumers to build wealth through their home.
Zencity
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Prop tech and residential hospitality operations
Cresset Asset Management
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Cresset offers individuals and families access to a comprehensive suite of family office services.
Campus Pointe Apartments
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Campus Pointe Apartments is an actual estate association that provides the rental to students on rent.
CA Ventures, LLC
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CA Ventures is a real estate management firm that focuses on creating and maximizing real estate investment value.
Equity Office
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Equity Office is rich with signature properties in the nation’s leading gateway markets.
HomeFinder.com
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We help homes and people find each other.
Revantage Corporate Services
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Revantage is a professional shared services company that embraces ambition and innovation to serve real estate portfolio companies.
VHT Studios
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VHT Studios is the leading full service provider of Visual Marketing Services specially designed for the Real Estate Industry.
GEM REALTY CAPITAL
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GEM REALTY CAPITAL is an investment company that invests in private-market real estate assets and publicly traded real estate securities.
Route
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Business Management Platform for Facility services industry. Focusing on commercial cleaning vendors first. Digitizing the manual processes
Neighborhoods.com
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Neighborhoods.com is a Chicago-based online real estate resource.
Barnett Capital Ltd.
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Barnett Capital is a real estate company providing real estate, asset-based financing, and equipment leasing services.
Waterton
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Waterton is a real estate investment and property management company.
Clayco
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Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering and construction firm.
Ozinga
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Ozinga provides an assortment of ready mix, sustainable and specialty concrete products, as well as various concrete add-ons and supplies.
CoWorkersLink
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Three year hold period and an estimated IRR of 35%. We are a family owned Chicago full service commercial real estate firm.
The Inland Real Estate Group
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Inland Real Estate Group provides commercial real estate-related services and alternative investment funds.
Heitman
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Heitman is a real estate investment management firm.
Fay Servicing
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Fay Servicing is a financial services company that offers mortgages, home loans, property renovation, lending and refinance services.
First Industrial Realty Trust
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First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT).
Pangea Properties
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Pangea Properties is a provider of multi-family residential properties.
Valent BioSciences Corporation
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At Valent BioSciences, our focus is on building the strongest portfolio of biorational solutions.
PopUp Leasing
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PopUpLeasing.com turns vacant real estate into cash by helping pop-up retailers find landlords willing to rent on a short-term basis.
First Midwest Group
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First Midwest Group is a dynamic, full service real estate development company, business operator, and global investment firm.
29th Street Capital
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29th Street Capital operates as a real estate investment and advisory firm.
Equity LifeStyle Properties
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Equity LifeStyle Properties owns and manages the portfolios of resort communities in the United States.
Grosvenor Capital Management
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GCM Grosvenor is a diversified independent alternative asset management firm.
Assemble
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Assemble is a company that provides shared office spaces in Chicago, Illinois as it owns private, short-term offices.
Draper and Kramer, Incorporated
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Draper and Kramer, Inc. is a vertically integrated property and financial services company .
Skender Construction
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Skender Construction is a construction company that offers services in Chicago and San Francisco.
Energy Distribution Partners
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Energy Distribution Partners is delivers propane and other energy products to retail, residential and commercial customers.
CartoFront
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CartoFront is an industry changing search engine for residential and commercial real estate opportunities.