Sell a property
Recognize the full value of your asset. Understand how income, use, buyer fit and terms come together in a disciplined disposition strategy.
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Paladin Real Estate Investment · Chicago, since 2001
Chicago commercial real estate and business brokerage.
Selling, buying, leasing, and advising.
Recognize value. Protect your position.
Paladin helps owners, investors and businesses sell, acquire, lease or reposition commercial property—and connect those decisions with business strategy.
John H. ScurasManaging Director & Founder
2019 Platinum Top Producer · Office Sales Dollar VolumeChicago Association of REALTORS® / CommercialForum
2001Founded in Chicago
Founder-led perspective
Founder-led perspective
$25MLacuna Lofts sale · 2019
Seller representation
Seller representation
2019 Platinum
Top ProducerOffice Sales Dollar Volume
Chicago Association of REALTORS®
CommercialForum
Top ProducerOffice Sales Dollar Volume
Chicago Association of REALTORS®
CommercialForum
01 / Your next decision
What brings you to Paladin?
Different objectives. A shared starting point: understand the whole picture before committing to a path.
Acquire an investment
Look beyond the asking price. Evaluate income quality, capital needs, financing and investment fit before making the next commitment.
Understand acquisition decisions
Find business space
Find space that works for your business. Connect operating needs, occupancy costs and lease obligations with a practical opening plan.
Explore tenant representation
Develop or reposition
Understand what a property could become. Test site capacity, approvals, economics and execution before treating potential as certainty.
Explore land & development strategy02 / Connected expertise
Property decisions. Business perspective.
Investment economics, operating requirements and execution—considered together, not in isolation.
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Acquisitions & dispositions
See the full asset. Find the right counterparties. Protect the terms that matter.
Leasing & tenant representation
Start with the business—not just the square footage.
Valuation & portfolio strategy
Supported value ranges. Clear choices for the next chapter.
Development & land strategy
Separate potential from feasibility—and feasibility from approval.
Business brokerage
Connect enterprise value with the property and operating obligations.
Business consulting & executive advisory
A clear decision brief. A practical sequence. Accountable execution.
BESS & solar farm real estate
Site control and commercial discipline for complex energy decisions.
Public sector, procurement & zoning
Understand the process before committing to the opportunity.
Specialist & incentive coordination
The right expertise, connected to the commercial decision.
03 / Selected experience
The work behind the perspective.
Real properties, specific decisions and lessons that carry into the next engagement.
Lacuna Lofts
A $25 million sale that considered the creative community, operating uses and the full property—not only a conventional office valuation.
Explore the storyACCESS Medical
An approximately $5.3 million medical-office sale completed in 2018. Seller representation connected healthcare occupancy with financing and closing detail.
Explore the story
The Astor Club
Independent coverage describes The Astor Club and the reopening of the former Maxim’s restaurant space. John’s engagement was hospitality location strategy and City of Chicago property acquisition support.
Explore the story
Glenwood solar
Real estate and development-team coordination with diligence planning around interconnection and discretionary approvals.
Explore the storyWindy City Boxing
Tenant representation produced proposed lease protections for a boxing and personal-training business, centered on ventilation, equipment, accessibility and delivery.
Explore the story
Morgan Arts Complex
A planned immersive entertainment event reached a signed agreement and did not open, after permitting and construction delays.
Explore the story
2854 W. Armitage
Historical mixed-use property photograph · Logan SquareResidential and retail income at 2854 W. Armitage requires a combined investment view. Marketing considerations included lease conditions, potential rent growth, neighborhood positioning and investor versus owner-user suitability.
Property context2747 N. Lincoln: site potential in context
Completed Kensington School of Lincoln Park · Now 2745 N. Lincoln AvenueJohn’s earlier redevelopment-site analysis connected zoning, transit access, development capacity, parking and approval-dependent scenarios. This photograph shows the Kensington School later built on the site, now addressed as 2745 N. Lincoln.
Property context
425 W. Jackson
Historical former municipal facility · Naperville, IllinoisA former municipal facility marketed through a sealed-bid sale illustrates owner-user suitability, commercial acquisition diligence, sale conditions and transition to private ownership. This Naperville property is distinct from the Jameson office at 425 W. North Ave. in Chicago.
Public-property considerations04 / A paladin protects
Protection is a way
of thinking.
Not a promise that every outcome can be controlled. A commitment to recognize value, understand obligations and make the consequences of a decision visible.
01
Recognize the full value
Look at income, use, land, people and potential together. The obvious category may not tell the whole story.
02
Understand the obligations
Price and rent are only part of the agreement. Responsibility, timing and contingencies can change the economics.
03
Test the dependencies
A signature is not a closing. A lease is not an opening. An opportunity is not income collected.
04
Consider what comes next
Protect the longer-term interests of clients, businesses, communities and land—not only the immediate transaction.
05 / How we work
A clear path through a complex decision.
01 /
Frame the decision
We define the objective, constraints, stakeholders and evidence needed. A property address, your objective and timing are enough to begin.
02 /
Assess
Understand the asset, business objective and constraints. Establish the facts, identify unknowns and test the assumptions that matter.
03 /
Position
Build a supported strategy. Define the value story, the right counterparties, the priorities and the terms worth protecting.
04 /
Execute
Coordinate the sequence. Negotiate carefully, track responsibilities and keep financing, diligence, approvals and delivery connected.
06 / Fees
How engagements are structured.
Advisory work and a transaction can be compensated separately. A specific rate is set in a proposal, not on this page.
Are advisory fees and transaction compensation the same?
Advisory engagements and transaction compensation can be separately structured. Consulting work can move through assessment, recommendations and execution coordination with a defined scope and decision points.
Are Paladin’s rates published on this site?
Private client proposals, rates and internal planning documents stay off the public site. An initial conversation can start with the property or business, your objective and your timing.
08 / Ideas & conversations
Show Me How+
Commercial real estate. Business consulting. A clearer way to think through the next decision.
John’s new solo podcast direction is in development. These earlier conversations belong to the original Show Me How archive and may include co-hosts or guests.
Explore insights & the archiveCommercial real estate, unlocked
Market orientation and property types: a starting point for evaluating commercial real estate.
Inside a commercial deal
Transaction anatomy, common pitfalls and the real path to ownership.
Your first commercial space
Lease structure and the business-space decisions that matter before signing.
09 / Press & recognition
Independent context. Documented results.
Ameritus · Transaction coverage
Big Pilsen office building sells for $25M.
Published coverage of the completed 2019 Lacuna Lofts transaction.
Read sale coverageREBusinessOnline · 2018
Evanston medical-office investment sale.
Trade coverage reports the approximately $5.3 million ACCESS Medical sale.
Read transaction coverageChicago Association of REALTORS®
2019 Platinum Top Producer.
John H. Scuras · Office Sales Dollar Volume · CommercialForum. Spring 2020 publication, page 19.
View published recognition10 / Founder-led. Client-focused.
Experience with a person accountable for it.
John H. Scuras founded Paladin in Chicago in 2001. The firm connects commercial real estate decisions with business strategy—through careful assessment, informed negotiation and practical execution.
Paladin is the durable organization. John’s judgment, experience and accountability lead the work. Brokerage services are provided through Jameson Commercial Real Estate.
2019 Platinum Top ProducerOffice Sales Dollar Volume
Chicago Association of REALTORS® / CommercialForum
Spring 2020 publication · page 19
Meet John & understand Paladin Chicago Association of REALTORS® / CommercialForum
Spring 2020 publication · page 19
11 / Start a conversation
Let’s look at the whole picture.
A property decision. A business opportunity. A question worth working through. Start with where you are and what you want to accomplish.
Include the property or business, location, objective, timing and your best phone number. A complete property package is not required to begin.
John H. Scuras
Managing Director & Founder2019 Platinum Top ProducerOffice Sales Dollar Volume
Chicago Association of REALTORS® / CommercialForum
Spring 2020 publication · page 19
Chicago Association of REALTORS® / CommercialForum
Spring 2020 publication · page 19
Brokerage through Jameson Commercial Real Estate
425 W. North Ave., Chicago, IL 60610