Roxana Naughton joins BHHS Chicago’s JS Group

McHenry County agent Roxana Naughton joined Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago, teaming up with Jim Streff’s Lincoln Park-based JS Group.

The move expands JS Group’s reach from the city into the Northwest suburbs and gives Naughton better access to the city market for her clients, she said. Naughton, who was previously with Berkshire Hathaway Starck Real Estate, is focused primarily in Crystal Lake and McHenry County.

She closed more than $22 million in sales in 2025, according to a press release from BHHS Chicago. JS Group has closed more than $250 million in deals since its founding in 2017, the brokerage said. Streff said the team did about $60 million in sales last year.

Naughton and Streff connected through a mutual client who noticed similarities in how they operated, they said. After meeting for coffee, they realized merging their networks made economic sense to capture buyers leaving the city without losing out on commission splits.

Streff said he was frequently referring clients out to brokers in the suburbs because his team doesn’t have agents there. With Naughton on board, he can keep that business in house.

“I thought, why refer business out to an agent when we can just have it all be under the same team?” Streff said.

For Naughton, the move allows her to give her clients a better understanding of the market forces in the city, and help clients looking to buy property there, she said.

“I do find myself migrating from time to time, when my clients have needs, into the city. So I was looking for a brokerage that could facilitate both, with a little bit of an emphasis more on marketing,” Naughton said.

While she’s keeping the Berkshire Hathaway banner, the move is essentially a brokerage jump. Berkshire Hathaway Starck Real Estate is an independent franchise run by Aaron Starck that operates in the outer suburbs and northern Illinois, while BHHS Chicago is part of the national Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices company.

Naughton said she wanted to keep the BHHS brand, but said BHHS Chicago provided more advanced resources and is more forward-looking than her previous brokerage.

“BHHS Chicago has more of a cosmopolitan feel to it, a little bit of a broader reach,” she said.

Streff’s team operates primarily on the city’s North Side, targeting neighborhoods like Bucktown, Logan Square and Lincoln Park, along with the North Shore suburbs. With Naughton on board, the team is composed of six agents, Streff said.

Streff said he’s interested in continuing to add agents to target western hubs like Hinsdale, LaGrange and Elmhurst next if the new arrangement proves successful. As buyers increasingly migrate out of the city to the suburbs, the expansion can help him hold onto those clients, he said.

“[Those are all] areas that we haven’t really had a presence yet, but we do get clients who move there,” he said. “We want the right fit. We want to make sure that we have a plan and a system in place. So when we find the right fit, we’re ready to go and it’s mutually beneficial.”