Wayne Caplan

Wayne Caplan is a Senior Vice President for SVN | Chicago Commercial, specializing in the sale and leasing of retail, investment and development properties. He has participated in commercial property transactions in excess of $1 Billion including many high profile transactions in the Chicago area. Wayne recently achieved SVN’s prestigious Partner’s Circle status for both 2014 & 2016, and was ranked number 23 & 26 respectively, among all SVN advisors nationally in gross commission volume. He also was awarded both a Platinium and Gold Commercial Real Estate Award from the Chicago Association of Realtors for excellence in sales and leasing volume for 2014 and a Platinum award in 2016 for retail sales volume.
Wayne’s clients range from small individual investors to large regional and national lending institutions, as well as REITs, life insurance companies, and national mixed-use developers. Additional Awards and Recognitions include being named Rookie of the Year for Inland Real Estate Sales in 2000, a top producer at Sheldon Good & Company for six years, and being among the top ten percent nationally of all 1800+ SVN advisors in gross commission volume for the past nine years. Active in advocacy for the commercial real estate industry, Wayne has served as the Council Chair of Political and Regulatory Affairs for SVN. Wayne is a longtime member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). He also served for many years on the Chicago Association of Realtors (CAR) “Commercial Forum” committee, of which he was the 2006 Committee Chair and has served on the prestigious Board of Directors of the 11,000+ member organization from 2008 – 2013. Wayne has also served on the Commercial Committee for the Illinois Association of Realtors (IAR) and has served as a member of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) board of directors and on both it’s Commercial and Commercial Legislative & Regulatory Committees. Wayne currently serves on the ICSC Government Relations Committee for Illinois. He is also active in several Chicago neighborhood groups, and serves on the Board of Directors for The Near South Planning Board in Chicago. Wayne is a contributor to charities such as the American Red Cross, The Jewish United Fund and Streetwise. Wayne lives in Glenview, IL with his wife and two sons.

Specialties: Investment Sales, Landlord Representation, Land and Development Consulting