Welcome To The Real Finds Blog: Commercial Real Estate Insights for Chicago and the Midwest

Welcome to The Real Finds Blog, your daily briefing on commercial real estate trends across Chicagoland and the Midwest. Published by Gordon Lamphere, a fourth-generation commercial real estate broker at Van Vlissingen & Co., this blog delivers sharp, actionable insights for CRE professionals navigating a changing market. Every article connects macro trends—interest rates, automation, supply chains, policy shifts—to local real estate strategy across high-demand submarkets, including:

• Downtown Chicago – office space, adaptive reuse, capital markets
• Elk Grove & O’Hare – industrial leasing, logistics infrastructure
• Kenosha & SE Wisconsin – warehouse development and distribution hubs
• Oak Brook & Schaumburg – suburban office leasing and reinvestment
• Naperville & the I-88 Corridor – flex space, R&D, life sciences
• Bolingbrook & the I-55 Corridor – fulfillment centers and industrial site selection
• Lake, DuPage, Will, Kane, and McHenry Counties – land use, entitlements, development opportunities, and tenant migration

From daily blog posts to in-depth strategy guides and transcribed podcast interviews, Real Finds turns global uncertainty into hyper-local market intelligence for investors, landlords, tenants, developers, and brokers New posts are published every weekday.