Jim Estus

During my 30-year real estate career, I have established a diversified background representing buyers and sellers and landlords and tenants in their industrial real estate requirements, including the sale and acquisition of vacant land, sales and leasing, investment sales and build-to-suits in the Chicagoland area. For 20 years, I have specialized in the western, southwestern and northwestern industrial areas of O’Hare and Cook, DuPage, Will, Kendall and Grundy Counties.

I have personally completed more than 500 transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $1.7 billion.

Prior to joining Colliers International, I spent 18 years with Cushman & Wakefield, where I was a senior director in the Industrial/Technology Group.

• CoStar Group Power Broker Award (2004-2005, 2009-2020)
• Top 10% Producer, Colliers Americas region (2011-2012, 2014-2020)
• Top Chicago Industrial Broker (2000-2002, 2009)
• NAIOP Build to Suit of the Year Award (2000, 2015, 2018)
• SIOR Chicago's Largest Dollar Volume Transaction—Industrial Investment Sale (2017)
• SIOR Chicago's Build-to-Suit of the Year Award (2015)
• SIOR Most Number of Inter-Chapter Transactions (2012)
• Area Service of Excellence Award, Western Region (1997)
• Brokerage Service Excellence Award (1997)
• SIOR Largest Industrial Transaction, 2015, 2017
• SIOR  Largest Investment Sale, 2017

Property Type

Industrial

Services

Tenant Representation, Landlord Representation

• Lowes ­– 1,380,351 SF
• Walmart – 79 acres
• Amazon – 1,069,693 SF
• Pactiv – 787,499 SFCostco – 130 acres
• DSC – 1,000,000 SF
• Kimberly Clark – 716,318 SF
• Sears – 814,848 SF
•  LTD Commodities – 694,367 SF
• UTI Integrated Logistics – 592,672 SF
• Electrolux – 965,000 SF
• Owens Minor – 515,000 SF
• RJW – 405,844 SF
• ALG – 499,200 SF
• Synnex – 451,994 SF
• Home Depot – 448,177 SF
• International Paper – 388,469 SF
• Reviva Logistics – 355,000 SF
• New Breed Logistics – 325,000 SF
• RYT-WAY Cloud – 306,000 SF
• Victory Packaging – 300,000 SF
•  Lasco – 226,102 SF
• Caterpillar Logistics – 225,000 SF
• Precision Foods – 125,000 SF