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who we are

UpShift is a branding & design agency celebrating our 25th year.

We create custom brands, websites, and marketing for clients in real estate, hospitality, technology, finance, and luxury consumer brands. Our work helps your business stand out, grow & thrive.

We are one of the nation's leading creative agencies in multifamily. Our expertise includes luxury apartments, student, senior, mixed-use, build-to-rent homes, and commercial properties in 60 real estate markets. Coast-to-coast, top developers & property managers trust UpShift for brand awareness & fast lease-ups.




Announcing our newest product: Avila Web Themes. Apartment website templates with better design, more flexibility, and stronger performance than you get with other apartment web templates.

We're tired of seeing good brands get put on mediocre web templates. So we built a better way. Avila.



our work capabilities awards

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Design & Advertising

Web & Interactive

UpShift News

Uncategorized October 29, 2024
UpShift is proud to introduce Avila Themes

UpShift is proud to introduce Avila (ah-VEE-luh) — apartment website themes that don’t feel like the basic real estate templates…

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News September 24, 2024
Do you need a custom website for your development?

Many property managers and developers today often ask us a similar question: do I really need to invest in a…

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Uncategorized July 10, 2024
Richard Shanks Elected to National AIGA Board of Directors

Our founding partner, Richard Shanks, was recently elected to a Board position on the National AIGA Chapter. This election to…

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Uncategorized May 09, 2024
Hiring Design Interns for Summer 2024

UpShift is looking to hire a design intern in our Chicago or Los Angeles office. We seek a graphic design…

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