NAI Hiffman
Chicago-area independent, NAI Global member.1
Real Estate Industry Reviews Editorial Team Updated 2026-10-27 www.hiffman.com/about
Overview
Hiffman’s about page says the firm was founded in 1981, became NAI Global’s Chicago regional partner in 1985, and is headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. The page does not give a street address. It says NAI Hiffman runs the Chicago brokerage and Hiffman National is the management platform.
Two sourced criteria produce the 9.0 score: state license at 10 points and weight 25 and years in business at 10 points and weight 20. Evidence: Moderate. Criteria without a source stay out of the math.
Score breakdown
| State license | 10 |
| Professional directory | Not published |
| Verifiable transactions | Not published |
| Years in business | 10 |
| Public reviews | Not published |
| Overall score | 9.0 |
State license, weight 25, 10 points. Illinois professional-licensing file, checked 2026-10-26: license 478009622, licensed real estate broker corporation, status active. Business name Hiffman Shaffer Associates Inc. The DBA field is NAI Hiffman. City Oakbrook Terrace. Original issue date March 3, 2000. Expires October 31, 2026. The record names the firm. Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Professional Licensing open data (dataset pzzh-kp68)
Professional directory, weight 20, not scored. Not scored. No SIOR, CCIM or comparable listing of a named principal was read for this profile.
Verifiable transactions, weight 20, not scored. Not scored. No named transaction with a property and a size, price or date was read outside the firm’s own description.
Years in business, weight 20, 10 points. The about page says the firm was founded in 1981. Age to 2026 is 45 years, which is the 20-or-more band (10 points). Hiffman About Us page
Public reviews, weight 15, not scored. Not scored. No third-party review count or average was read.
Math: 450 weighted points ÷ 45 (the weight of the sourced criteria) = 10.0, then capped at 9.0 / 10 because exactly two criteria are sourced. A 10.0 needs at least three sourced criteria. Evidence: Moderate. Criteria without a source are left out of the denominator. This is the boutique rubric, not the filing rubric used for the six national firms, and the two are not comparable. Bands · Evidence levels.
Each criterion is defined on our methodology page.
Orientation
Chicago-area independent, NAI Global member. Services listed in the sources cited on this page: property management.
Main competitors
The Chicago city page lists NAI Hiffman with Avison Young (8.5 / 10).
Pricing
A fee schedule is not published in the sources cited on this page, and no pricing URL is published.
How to engage
| Official website | https://www.hiffman.com/about/ |
|---|---|
| Pricing URL | not published |
| Offices verified on the firm’s own site | Chicago: Headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois (office page) |
| Services listed | property management |
| Last verified | 2026-10-27 |
Competitors
Compared with
Compare NAI Hiffman with
Suggestions are other commercial brokerages on this site: same city first, then overlapping sourced services, then a closer firm type. Each link opens the compare tool with both firms. Filing-rubric scores and boutique-rubric scores are not the same measurement.
Reviews
The Chicago office listing read on 2026-10-26 shows 3.4 from 30 Google reviews (Google Maps reading). That reading is the public-reviews input above.
No client quotes were read for this profile.
Fact file
| Item | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1981. The page says the firm became NAI Global’s Chicago regional partner in 1985 and changed its name to NAI Hiffman in 2000. | Hiffman About Us page |
| Affiliation | NAI Global’s Chicago regional partner since 1985. | Hiffman About Us page |
| Headquarters | Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. No street address on the page. | Hiffman About Us page |
| Platform | NAI Hiffman runs the Chicago brokerage. Hiffman National is the management platform. | Hiffman About Us page |
| Illinois license | IDFPR professional-licensing file: license 478009622, licensed real estate broker corporation, business name Hiffman Shaffer Associates Inc., DBA NAI Hiffman, Oakbrook Terrace, status active, original issue date March 3, 2000, expires October 31, 2026. | Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Professional Licensing open data (dataset pzzh-kp68) |
Methodology and sources
Method note and sources
This score uses the boutique public-evidence rubric: state license (25), professional directory (20), verifiable transactions (20), years in business (20) and public reviews (15). A number is published only when at least two criteria have a source and at least one of those sources is independent of the firm. With exactly two sourced criteria the score is capped at 9.0; a 10.0 needs at least three. Self-reported career totals and review claims we have not read are not inputs.
Sources
- Hiffman About Us page · accessed 2026-10-20
- Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Professional Licensing open data (dataset pzzh-kp68) · accessed 2026-10-20
Last verified 2026-10-26. Figures were re-read from the linked sources that day.
View changelog
- Boutique score recomputed. Public reviews follow the star rating and the review count. A published 10.0 needs at least three sourced criteria, and exactly two sourced criteria cap the score at 9.0. Published score 9.0 / 10, Evidence: Moderate. No new source was read.
- Profile published from the sources cited below.