A Chicago courtyard apartment building at blue hour

Chicago Multifamily · Since 2021

Chicago's apartment buildings, handled like legacy assets.

We advise owners and buyers of 10- to 99-unit apartment buildings across Chicago, from South Shore courtyard buildings to North Side walk-ups.

Recently closed
5451–5461 S. Everett Ave · Hyde Park · 31 units · $5,850,000 · Sept 2026St. Edmund's Manor · Washington Park · $2,300,000 · Jan 2026Presidential Library Portfolio · South Shore · 6 buildings, 237 units · $17,050,000Dorchester Townhomes · Dolton · 51 units · sold twice, 2018 and 20245451–5461 S. Everett Ave · Hyde Park · 31 units · $5,850,000 · Sept 2026St. Edmund's Manor · Washington Park · $2,300,000 · Jan 2026Presidential Library Portfolio · South Shore · 6 buildings, 237 units · $17,050,000Dorchester Townhomes · Dolton · 51 units · sold twice, 2018 and 2024

What we do

Advisory for Chicago apartment buildings

Sell

Sell

Positioning, marketing and negotiating the sale of your building to qualified buyers, including 1031 exchange buyers.

Buy

Buy

Finding and underwriting buildings for investors, including off-market opportunities.

Value

Value

A confidential broker opinion of value for your building.

1031

1031 & Legacy Planning

Coordinating with your attorney, CPA and qualified intermediary on exchanges and generational plans. We don't give legal or tax advice.

How a closing moves

From your building to closed, in five moves.

Say you own a 24-unit courtyard building in South Shore and you're weighing a sale. We bring it straight to buyers and lenders we already work with, so it moves without sitting on the open market. When it closes, you have your proceeds and a clean path into a 1031 exchange if that's the plan.

  1. 01

    Your building

    A courtyard or walk-up you own or want to own.

  2. 02

    A local agent

    Us — on your block, not in a call center.

  3. 03

    Buyer, lender or resident

    Someone already in our network.

  4. 04

    Capital moving

    Terms negotiated, financing lined up.

  5. 05

    Closed

    Proceeds to you — and a 1031 path if you want one.

More than 1,800 KW Commercial agents across the U.S. and Canada (KW Commercial, Sept 2026).

Keller Williams, No. 1 real estate franchise in the U.S. by agent count: 136,511 U.S. agents and 796,658 transaction sides in 2025 (T3 Sixty, Apr 2026).

Selected closings

A few of our recent transactions

View the full track record

Presidential Library Portfolio

South Shore

6 buildings · 237 units

5451–5461 S. Everett

Hyde Park

31 units

The Fairfax

Chicago

Selected closing

St. Edmund's Village

Chicago

Selected closing

This site launched in 2021 as Multifamily Investment Advisors – Chicagoland. Back then it was tracking apartment buildings across Chicagoland. Today it's the Chicago multifamily home of Midwest Investment Advisors | Powered by KW Commercial.

Off-market opportunities

We have a few off-market opportunities where the seller has indicated they will sell but isn't quite ready to list yet. We completely understand, and we share those opportunities with our preferred clients. Let's talk about getting you on that list so you get early looks at opportunities.

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Led by Tony Hardy, J.D., founder and president of Midwest Investment Advisors.