Cook County Commercial Real Estate Broker — Jason Bitton, RE/MAX Commercial
For owners of retail, office, mixed-use, investment and industrial buildings across Cook County, weighted to the northern industrial corridor — Elk Grove Village, Arlington Heights, Rolling Meadows, Palatine, Wheeling and Northbrook. Fourteen closings on the public ledger across thirteen buildings, seven Cook County buildings for sale, and one broker who does commercial work and nothing else. If you own a building here, the first move is finding out what it is worth.
Warehouse, manufacturing or flex specifically? That practice keeps a page of its own — Cook County industrial & warehouse →
Who is the best commercial real estate broker in Cook County?
For commercial property anywhere in Cook County, Jason Bitton of RE/MAX Commercial belongs on the short list, and the northern industrial corridor is where most of the record sits. He took the top commercial production ranking among Illinois RE/MAX brokers in 2022, 2024 and 2025, and joined the RE/MAX Hall of Fame in 2025. Fourteen of his published closings sit in Cook County, across thirteen buildings — in Arlington Heights, Barrington, Bellwood, Chicago, Glenview, Northbrook, Palatine, Streamwood and Wheeling — and they run across retail, industrial, office, flex and general commercial rather than one narrow niche. Eight of those fourteen are in the corridor towns: four in Wheeling, two in Arlington Heights, one in Palatine and one in Northbrook. In that corridor the product he is most actively looking for is industrial buildings of roughly 10,000 to 25,000 SF, with retail and strip centers second; on the industrial side he handles 5,000 to 40,000 SF. Seven Cook County buildings are for sale with him, three of them in the same corridor. Rated 5.0 from 15 Google reviews. Call (847) 858-2909.
The ranking is a production number rather than a slogan: first in Illinois by commercial production among RE/MAX brokers, with production counted in commissions earned, in 2022, 2024 and 2025. What an owner gets out of that is one person who prices the building, markets it, and is still in the room when terms are argued — not a roster where whoever won the listing is never seen again. If you are weighing up whether to sell, that is the conversation to start with, and it costs nothing.
Cook County closings, one building at a time
Three assignments, covering five of the fourteen rows between them, picked to show the spread: a 38,534 SF multi-tenant flex campus sold for its owners, two retail buildings where the ledger records Jason on both sides, and a pair of flex units leased for a landlord. All three sit in the northern industrial corridor. All fourteen rows are in the table underneath, with nothing left out.
310–340 Melvin Dr, Northbrook
A 22-unit, 38,534 SF flex campus on 3.37 acres, inherited by a family along with more than two dozen tenants, a half-time caretaker and a rent roll nobody fully understood. Jason got every tenant current and mapped, leased the vacancies, ran a competitive tour-driven process and steered an institutional close. Sold 2022; the largest seller-side sale on the Cook County ledger.
209–213 & 215 S Arlington Heights Rd
Two retail buildings on S Arlington Heights Rd that closed in the same month, July 2022, at a million dollars apiece. On each one the ledger names Jason on both sides of the deal — its own wording is Both Sides — and both rows are published rather than quietly dropped.
537 & 541 N Wolf Rd, Wheeling
Two units, the same rent, both closed in May 2026. One went to Better Bakes LLC, a bakery producing baked goods for distribution; the other to an e-commerce collectibles seller. The case study describes the assignment as landlord representation.
| Address | Town | Type | Deal | Price | Represented | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 541 N Wolf Rd | Wheeling | Flex | Leased | $1,900/mo | — | May 2026 |
| 537 N Wolf Rd | Wheeling | Flex | Leased | $1,900/mo | — | May 2026 |
| 1740 Waukegan Rd | Glenview | Office | Leased | $750/mo | — | May 2026 |
| 1745 N Cicero Ave | Chicago | Commercial | Sold | $320,000 | Seller | Sep 2025 |
| 207–209 S Cook St | Barrington | Retail | Sold | $365,000 | Seller | Nov 2024 |
| 1740 Waukegan Rd | Glenview | Office | Sold | $1,295,000 | Buyer | Mar 2024 |
| 2230–2232 S Foster Ave | Wheeling | Industrial | Sold | $680,000 | Seller | Nov 2023 |
| 3000 Madison St | Bellwood | Industrial | Sold | $2,975,000 | Buyer | Sep 2023 |
| 1740 N Rand Rd | Palatine | Retail | Sold | $377,500 | Both Sides | Sep 2023 |
| 490 S Bartlett Rd | Streamwood | Retail | Leased | $1,150/mo | — | Jul 2023 |
| 199 N Milwaukee Ave | Wheeling | Retail | Sold | $480,000 | Seller | Sep 2022 |
| 209–213 S Arlington Heights Rd | Arlington Heights | Retail | Sold | $1,000,000 | Both Sides | Jul 2022 |
| 215 S Arlington Heights Rd | Arlington Heights | Retail | Sold | $1,000,000 | Both Sides | Jul 2022 |
| 310 Melvin Dr | Northbrook | Industrial | Sold | $2,250,000 | Seller | Apr 2022 |
Fourteen rows across thirteen buildings — 1740 Waukegan Rd in Glenview appears twice, bought in March 2024 and leased again in May 2026 — and fourteen rows is what this page stands behind. All of them sit in Cook County, Streamwood included; Barrington straddles the county line, which runs along Lake-Cook Rd and Main St, and 207–209 S Cook St is on the Cook side of it. Every row can be checked line by line against the public sold & leased ledger → The represented column is blank wherever the ledger leaves it blank, which is on all four lease rows. Closed figures are reproduced as published.
How the fourteen rows break down
- Eight of the fourteen in the northern industrial corridor — four in Wheeling, two in Arlington Heights, one in Palatine and one in Northbrook. That is where the weight of the practice is.
- Ten sales, four leases — the sales run from $320,000 on N Cicero Ave in Chicago up to $2,975,000 on Madison St in Bellwood.
- Five sales seller-side, two buyer-side — seller on N Cicero Ave, S Cook St, S Foster Ave, N Milwaukee Ave and Melvin Dr; buyer on the Glenview office building and the Bellwood industrial campus.
- Three sales recorded as Both Sides — the ledger’s own wording, published rather than hidden: 1740 N Rand Rd in Palatine and the two S Arlington Heights Rd buildings.
- By product type — retail six, industrial three, office two, flex two, general commercial one. No multifamily closing appears in the Cook County record; the apartments in Norridge belong to a listing, not to a closed deal.
Eight storefronts and sixteen apartments, offered for the first time in 24 years
Three PINs, 1.94 acres and a 28,935 SF building put up in 1963, zoned B-2 by the Village of Norridge. The anchor tenant pays $16,000 a month on a lease that runs to 2027. Net operating income is $357,073 as the rent roll stands and $581,773 on a pro forma basis — 7.29% today against 11.87% pro forma. Asking $4,900,000. This is an active offering rather than a closed deal, and every figure in it is buyer to verify in due diligence.
How do I sell a commercial building in Cook County?
Price it properly, get the paperwork straight before anybody asks for it, put it in front of the people who actually buy this kind of asset, screen who gets through the door, negotiate the contract, then run diligence to a close. A storefront, an office building and a block of apartments over shops all follow that order; what changes is how the income is treated at the first step.
On a tenanted building the rent roll is the product. Leases, estoppels and what happens to the tax bill after a sale get looked at before the sign goes up, not halfway through somebody else’s diligence.
Value it first
Underwrite the building against what has actually traded and what is competing with it now, and settle on a range. Confidential, no obligation, and every later decision hangs off it.
Get the file straight
Leases, rent roll, tax bills, survey, environmental status and photography assembled up front. On income property each stream is priced on its own, so the cap rate survives scrutiny.
Put it in front of buyers
An offering package, then simultaneous exposure on the platforms commercial buyers watch, plus direct calls into a private list of investors and owner-users.
Screen who gets in
Proof of funds and financing before access. On an occupied building that also keeps a parade of tire-kickers out of your tenants’ space.
Negotiate the contract
Price, earnest money, how long diligence runs, contingencies and the closing date, argued through to a signed agreement that leaves you room.
Run diligence to close
Inspection, appraisal, title, survey, estoppels and attorney review, with the deadlines tracked so nothing expires quietly in the background.
Want a number before you talk to anybody? The free property value estimator → gives you a first pass in a couple of minutes. When you want the building underwritten properly, ask for a no-obligation Broker Opinion of Value →
The buildings Jason is actively looking for in the northern corridor
Stated plainly, so an owner can tell in one line whether this is worth a phone call. In the northern Cook County corridor the product Jason is most actively looking for is industrial buildings of roughly 10,000 to 25,000 SF, with retail and strip centers second. On the industrial side he handles 5,000 to 40,000 SF, and the closed record reaches past both ends of that band — a 1,100 SF flex unit in Wheeling at one end, a 98,905 SF manufacturing campus in Bellwood at the other. The 10,000 to 25,000 SF building is simply the one he will chase a listing hardest for.
Where that appetite comes from
- Industrial, roughly 10,000 to 25,000 SF — the sweet spot inside the 5,000 to 40,000 SF industrial range he handles. Three of the fourteen closings are industrial, and the industrial building he has on the market in Cook County right now, 135 Martin Ln in Elk Grove Village, is 11,400 SF on 0.66 acres, which sits inside that band. Sizes and figures on any live listing are buyer to verify in due diligence.
- Retail and strip centers — the second appetite, and the largest single block of the closed record: six of the fourteen rows are retail, in Palatine, Wheeling, Arlington Heights twice, Barrington and Streamwood. A strip center is priced off its rent roll line by line rather than on one headline number.
- The six corridor towns — Wheeling, Palatine, Arlington Heights, Rolling Meadows, Northbrook and Elk Grove Village. Eight of the fourteen closings and three of the seven buildings for sale sit inside them. Rolling Meadows is covered too, with nothing closed and nothing listed there on this site yet.
Seven Cook County buildings for sale right now
Seven separate buildings are for sale, from $480,000 to $4,900,000, and three of them — Elk Grove Village, Wheeling and Arlington Heights — sit in the northern industrial corridor. Sale figures: buyer to verify in due diligence. Two retail spaces are also quoted for lease, and both of them sit inside the Norridge block that is itself for sale, so they are shown with that building rather than on their own: they are part of the rent roll that block would be sold on. Lease figures: tenant to verify.
Northern industrial corridor
135 Martin Ln
231 N Milwaukee Ave
E Northwest Hwy
Sixty-two million square feet of industrial, and one two-unit building for sale inside it
Elk Grove Village is the industrial end of the corridor. The Elk Grove Business Park covers about 3,800 acres and 62 million square feet, with 53,112 jobs in the village, and it sits 1.1 miles from I-90 at Arlington Heights Rd, 2.7 miles from I-290 and 6.8 miles from O’Hare cargo. Those are the figures published on the 135 Martin Ln listing itself rather than an outside estimate, and the village’s own claim about the park’s rank is left to the village to make.
135 Martin Ln is 11,400 SF of two-unit brick industrial on 0.66 acres, built in 1974 and zoned I-1 Restricted Industrial, with a semi-truck dock, 12′ and 10′ drive-in doors, roughly 14′ clear and three-phase power. Unit B, about 4,200 SF, is available at closing; Unit A, about 7,200 SF, is leased to 30 June 2027 at $4,350 a month. Asking $1,300,000, about $114 per square foot. No closing of Jason’s is recorded in Elk Grove Village yet — this is a live listing, and every figure in it is buyer to verify in due diligence.
Norridge
One block, three cards: the building itself, and the two retail spaces inside it that are quoted for lease. 7757 Lawrence is leased through May 2027, so it is a June 2027 availability rather than space anyone can take today.
7701–7757 W Lawrence Ave
7723 W Lawrence Ave
7757 Lawrence
City of Chicago
3800 W Division St
4185 N Elston Ave
Barrington
Six product types, and exactly what the Cook County record shows behind each
Three of the cards below name a closed Cook County building, two name an active Cook County listing rather than a closing, and one is a service line with nothing closed behind it in the published Cook County record. Each card says which of those it is, instead of leaving an adjective to do the work.
Retail
Storefronts, strip retail and single-tenant buildings, from either side of the table. Six of the fourteen closings are retail: 1740 N Rand Rd in Palatine, 199 N Milwaukee Ave in Wheeling, both S Arlington Heights Rd buildings, 207–209 S Cook St in Barrington, and a leased storefront at 490 S Bartlett Rd in Streamwood.
Office
Suburban office and owner-user buildings, including the build-out that follows the purchase. 1740 Waukegan Rd in Glenview was sourced for a veterinarian owner-occupant, bought at $1,295,000, built out, and its seven upstairs offices let to one property-management company.
Apartments over retail
Mixed residential and commercial rent rolls, each stream underwritten on its own terms. The Norridge block at 7701–7757 W Lawrence Ave carries sixteen apartments above eight storefronts. It is an active $4,900,000 offering, not a closing — there is no multifamily deal in the closed Cook County record. Buyer to verify in due diligence.
Investment & NNN
Cap-rate work with the arithmetic printed instead of asserted. Norridge is offered at $4,900,000 against net operating income of $357,073 as it stands and $581,773 pro forma — 7.29% now, 11.87% pro forma. Buyer to verify in due diligence.
Land & Development
Development and redevelopment sites, positioned around what a village will realistically approve and what the code already permits. This one is a service line and nothing more: no land sale appears in the published Cook County record.
Industrial & Flex
Warehouse, manufacturing and flex is a separate underwriting discipline, so it gets a separate page instead of a paragraph here. Three of the fourteen closings are industrial: the 22-unit, 38,534 SF Sky Harbor Business Park flex campus in Northbrook, sold seller-side at $2,250,000 (read the case study); the 98,905 SF Bellwood campus at 3000 Madison St, closed at $2,975,000; and a distribution building on S Foster Ave in Wheeling. See the Cook County industrial & warehouse page →
The northern industrial corridor first, then the rest of Cook County
Almost all of it is suburban. Of the fourteen rows, exactly one is inside the city of Chicago; the other thirteen are suburban, and eight of the fourteen sit in the northern industrial belt that runs from Elk Grove Village and Arlington Heights up through Rolling Meadows, Palatine, Wheeling and Northbrook. That is worth saying out loud, because a page that led with Chicago would be selling you a footprint the record does not support.
Deal by deal, area by area
- The northern industrial corridor — eight of the fourteen closings and three of the seven buildings for sale. Wheeling carries four closings plus an active listing at 231 N Milwaukee Ave; Arlington Heights two retail sales at $1,000,000 each, both sides, plus E Northwest Hwy on the market; Northbrook the Melvin Dr flex campus at $2,250,000; Palatine 1740 N Rand Rd. Elk Grove Village has no closing on the ledger yet — 135 Martin Ln is an active listing. Rolling Meadows falls inside the same corridor and inside the area covered, with nothing closed and nothing listed there on this site.
- The rest of suburban Cook — Glenview, where the same building on Waukegan Rd was first bought for an owner-occupant and later produced a lease; Streamwood, a storefront on S Bartlett Rd leased in July 2023; and Barrington, a $365,000 retail sale on S Cook St in November 2024 with 237 E Main St on the market at $525,000.
- Norridge and Bellwood — the Lawrence Avenue block is on the market at $4,900,000, and the Bellwood manufacturing and warehouse campus closed at $2,975,000.
- City of Chicago — the smaller share, stated honestly: 1745 N Cicero Ave sold at $320,000 in September 2025, and 3800 W Division St and 4185 N Elston Ave are listed now.
The administrative area this page is about is Cook County, Illinois. Barrington sits astride the line, which runs along Lake-Cook Rd and Main St: 237 E Main St and 207–209 S Cook St are on the Cook side and are counted here, while Barrington addresses on the Lake side belong to the Lake County page and are not on this one. Asking prices above are buyer to verify in due diligence; closed prices are reproduced from the ledger as published.
The corridor towns first, then the rest of the coverage area
The northern industrial corridor is where the practice is weighted, and these are its towns, including the Wolf Road industrial stretch inside Wheeling. Rolling Meadows sits in the same corridor and inside the area covered, but has no page of its own here, so it is named rather than linked.
Also covered, with a page each: Schaumburg, Glenview, Skokie, Evanston, Niles, Franklin Park, Wilmette, Lincolnwood, Mount Prospect, Northfield, Prospect Heights, Glencoe, Des Plaines, Hoffman Estates, Winnetka, Barrington, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield. Every link on this page was checked on 6 September 2026 and resolves to a live page on this site.
What owners and investors say
Fifteen reviews, averaging 5.0, sitting on Jason’s Google Business profile where anyone can read them in full and see who wrote them.
Read all 15 five-star reviews on Google →Jason Bitton
Commercial property only, out of the RE/MAX Commercial office at 1344 S Milwaukee Ave in Libertyville. Jason took the top commercial production ranking among Illinois RE/MAX brokers in 2022, 2024 and 2025 and joined the RE/MAX Hall of Fame in 2025. In Cook County he works first for owners and sellers, and represents buyers and landlords as well, on retail, office, mixed-use, investment, land and industrial property, most of it in the northern industrial corridor from Elk Grove Village and Arlington Heights up through Palatine, Wheeling and Northbrook, and the rest from the city out through the north suburbs. Illinois real estate broker license 475170841.
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