The top home builders in Chicago
Ranked by homes actually closed in 2025 — not ad spend, not sign count. The figures below are from Zonda’s Builder Online Local Leaders list, the industry’s annual census of the 50 largest new-home markets.
Source: Builder Online, 2026 Local Leaders — Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
Market share is each builder’s slice of every new home closed in the metro that year.
- 1,875 closings · 25.9%
- 1,390 closings · 19.2%
- 3.PulteGroup1,005 closings · 13.9%
- 764 closings · 10.6%
- 5.NVR371 closings · 5.1%
- 6.Olthof Homesrule on file →
- 7.Mcfarland Homesrule on file →
- 8.SILVERTHORNE HOMEBUILDERS
- 9.Lexington Homes
- 10.Providence Real Estate Developmentrule on file →
When most of a market’s new homes come from a handful of builders, a handful of written policies decides who gets paid. Each builder sets its own rule for how a buyer’s agent must register a client — some at the first visit, some before the first online inquiry — and the rules differ builder to builder, community to community. Miss one and you can lose the commission on a deal you did the work on.
NewBuilt keeps the registration rules for national, regional, and local builders — 6 of the ten above — each cited to the builder’s own page, so the answer you act on is one you can check. If it doesn’t cover a builder yet, it tells you.
Builder policies vary by community and change — always confirm current terms with the builder.
Closings, market shares, and market rankings are 2025 figures from Builder Online’s (Zonda) 2026 Local Leaders list, retrieved 2026-09-03 — the full 50-market index is here. NewBuilt is not affiliated with Zonda or with any builder named above.