I understand some market participants — some of whom were used to the “idiosyncrasies” of Cook County’s property tax system — are in an adjustment period. Yet some investors are already benefiting from this new transparency and predictability by stepping up activity in the second half of the year. Office vacancy is at its lowest point since 2016 and leasing activity is at new peaks. Investors from around the world have announced hundreds of millions of dollars in deals in Chicago within the last few months. Any one of these would qualify as one of the top five largest commercial building sales in the Chicago area.