While the market typically does not attract national big-box distribution users, some distribution and e-commerce companies are opening new industrial facilities here, CapRock's Bob O'Neill tells GlobeSt.com.

But investors remain as interested as ever in Chicago-area properties, including ones in the suburbs.

“There has been a lack of significant new medical office development over the past decade…”

Real estate marketing is a constantly evolving science with new and “smarter” platforms being unrolled by Wall Street and Silicon Valley every quarter—some great and others not so great, Realty ONE's Kuba Jewgieniew tells GlobeSt.com.