Illinois’s Buy-Side Real Estate Market: Q2 2026 Analysis

Market Snapshot: Q2 2026

Illinois's active inventory held essentially flat through Q2 2026, ranging from 45,756 to 46,190 listings across all three months and closing the quarter at 46,190 in June. Months of supply registered 2.9 in April, May and June, an unusually stable reading that held precisely constant throughout the quarter. The supply scale provides useful context: below 4 months typically signals a seller's market, where demand tends to exceed available inventory; the 4 to 6 month range characterizes a balanced market; above 6 months, conditions tend to favor buyers. At 2.9 months, Illinois's Q2 2026 reading remained firmly in seller's territory for all three months.

Median sale prices rose consistently through the quarter, climbing from $326K in April to $335K in May and reaching $344K in June. Days on market held near 49, registering 49 in April, 50 in May, and 49 in June, effectively flat across all three months.

Compared to Q2 2025, Illinois's supply picture was nearly identical. Months of supply ended June 2026 at 2.9, matching the June 2025 reading exactly. Active inventory grew 3.0% year over year, a modest increase that had no effect on supply balance. Median prices rose 6.5% from June 2025, a meaningful gain reflecting sustained buyer demand in a market that has held in seller's territory through consecutive quarters. Days on market came in 1 day below the June 2025 reading of 51.

Top 25 Buyer's Agents and Teams: Q2 2026 Rankings

Agent Pronto/CINC has ranked Illinois's top 25 buyer's agents and teams based on total transaction volume in Q2 2026. This proprietary buy-side data reveals both high-volume operators and luxury specialists who dominate Illinois's diverse real estate market.

What the Data Shows

Illinois's Q2 2026 top 25 is concentrated almost entirely within the Chicago metropolitan area, spanning the city's most active neighborhoods and extending into the surrounding suburbs. The most active transaction addresses fall in Chicago's Lincoln Park, Gold Coast and adjacent North Side communities, where several agents and teams recorded multiple closings on the same or neighboring streets during the quarter. The North Shore suburban corridor, including Lake Forest, Kenilworth, Glencoe, Highland Park and Winnetka, contributes a distinct cluster of high-value closings. A third group of volume operators works accessible price segments across the broader metro, including outer suburbs and neighborhoods where individual transactions fall well below the city's high-end residential prices.

The volume operators define the high end of the closing count spectrum. Grigory Pekarsky leads all agents and teams with 98 closings at a $390K median, the highest transaction count in Illinois's Q2 top 25. Adam Merrick added 75 closings at a $180K median, and Jami Winchester contributed 52 at $177K, both working the accessible price segments of the broader metro. Nate Evans closed 39 transactions at $268K, Matt Laricy contributed 36 closings at $458K, and Benyamin Lalez added 35 at $573K. Alexandre Stoykov contributed 27 closings at $533K, Sarah Leonard added 29 at $412K, and Bill Flemming closed 27 at $376K. These agents and teams reach the rankings through consistent transaction activity across the accessible and mid-range segments of the metropolitan market.

A smaller group reaches the top 25 through fewer transactions at significantly higher price points, concentrated in Chicago's luxury neighborhoods and the North Shore suburbs. Katherine Malkin closed 3 transactions at a $4.5M median, with all three confirmed addresses in Chicago's Gold Coast and Lincoln Park, including two closings at 159 East Walton Place in the Gold Coast, where an adjacent unit also transacted during Q2 through a different agent. Carrie McCormick contributed 11 closings at a $1.7M median in Lincoln Park. Leigh Marcus closed 5 transactions at a $1.2M median, with his highest transaction a $6.1M Lincoln Park property. Paige Dooley worked the North Shore, closing 6 transactions at a $2.1M median, including a $4.2M Kenilworth property. Emily Sachs Wong added 11 closings at a $1.8M median, and Megan Mawicke Bradley contributed 6 closings at a $2.2M median across the North Shore corridor.

Median prices across the top 25 run from $177K to $4.5M, and closing counts from 3 to 98. Rank 20 in the rankings shows a system placeholder label in the source data rather than a named agent or team; that entry is shown in the rankings table as reported but is excluded from the agent and team analysis above. As with all dollar-volume rankings, the top 25 reflects the high-producing end of Illinois's buyer's agent and team landscape rather than a cross-section of the full market.

Conclusion

Illinois's Q2 2026 market held its character precisely: months of supply locked at 2.9 across all three months, inventory essentially flat, and prices rising 6.5% from the prior year's baseline. The top 25 buyer's agents and teams who performed within that environment reflect a Chicago-centric field with two distinct approaches: volume operators sustaining high closing counts across the accessible and mid-range segments of the metropolitan area, and luxury specialists embedded in the Gold Coast, Lincoln Park and North Shore communities where individual transactions generate the field's highest valuations. Agent Pronto/CINC's Q2 2026 rankings capture both approaches across Illinois's active buyer's agent and team landscape.

Data Sources:

Market Data: Provided by Redfin, a national real estate brokerage.

Buy-Side Transaction Data: Provided exclusively by Agent Pronto/CINC, the industry's leading source for buyer's agent and team performance intelligence. Agent Pronto/CINC aggregates buy-side transaction data nationwide to deliver comprehensive rankings and performance metrics.

Disclaimer: While Agent Pronto/CINC makes every effort to ensure data accuracy, rankings are based on available transaction records and may not capture all buy-side activity. Agents or teams not included in these rankings may have comparable or superior performance not reflected in our data sources.

Analysis Period: April 2026 - June 2026