I.
Adelaide Wren
Founder · Principal Broker
Lakeview-raised, fourteen years in residential brokerage. Closed her first North Side three-flat in 2011.
A small firm, by design.
About
Adelaide Wren has represented
the North Side for fourteen years.
Plate II. Portrait
Adelaide Wren
photographed at 1306 N. State Pkwy, MMXXV
▣ Adelaide Wren · Founder · Principal Broker
Adelaide Wren grew up in Lakeview, in a Greystone two-flat her grandfather bought from a Polish stonemason in 1958. She spent the summers of her childhood listening to her father, an architect, argue about cornice profiles. She has never quite recovered from it.
After Northwestern Kellogg, she joined a downtown firm and closed her first North Side three-flat in 2011. Eight years later, she opened The Astor Collective with two senior advisors she had worked with for a decade. The firm represents fewer than thirty households a year, by design and by referral, and has never spent a dollar on lead generation.
Her clients tend to stay clients for a long time. She is the broker they call about the contractor, the apartment for their daughter, the neighbor who wants to know what the alley building should actually go for. She considers this the work, not the aftermath of the work.
Adelaide
Founder · MMXIX
Founded
MMXIX
Annual Transactions
≤ 28
Broker-Advisors
Three
Neighborhoods
Five
Credentials
Licenses, designations, memberships.
- IL Managing Broker · License #471.020894
- Certified Residential Specialist (CRS)
- Accredited Buyer's Representative (ABR)
- Member, Chicago Association of Realtors
- Member, Mainstreet Organization of Realtors
- Member, Institute for Luxury Home Marketing
Education
And a few good books.
- Northwestern University, Kellogg School — MBA, '13
- Lake Forest College — BA, Architectural History, '08
- Ragdale Foundation Fellow — Writing in the Built Environment, '17
In the Press
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The Collective
Three broker-advisors. One philosophy.
II.
Theo Marquez
Senior Broker-Advisor
Eight years at a downtown firm before joining the Collective. Specializes in pre-market and small mixed-use.
III.
Helena Kasprowicz
Broker-Advisor · Buyer Representation
Architect by training; she walks every property with a contractor's eye and an aesthete's hand.
From the Client Letters
What people actually say about working with us.
“Adelaide showed us four homes. We bought the third. There was no manufactured urgency, no Saturday open houses, and no email follow-ups for six weeks while she found the right one. That, to us, was the service.”
Margaret & David K.
Bought a single-family rowhouse · Lincoln Park · 2024
“Our greystone was sold off-market in eleven days, to a neighbor we hadn't met. The Collective handled the conversation with discretion that made everyone come out friendlier than they went in.”
The Halloran Family
Sold a three-flat · Old Town · 2025
“I had been told for years that boutique brokerages couldn't move a building this size. Theo and Adelaide proved otherwise — twelve weeks, three competitive bids, and no public listing.”
S. Marenghi
Sold a mixed-use building · Lakeview East · 2024
“The market report alone is worth being on their list. They're the only broker in this city who tells me when *not* to sell.”
Helena P.
Long-term client, three transactions · Gold Coast · 2019–2025
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