The front door to everything we publish
about Chicago housing. Every number is computed from public records: the sale records the Cook County Assessor
publishes from recorded deeds, city permits and licenses, and Census population estimates. No listings data,
no modeled home values.
$320,000
median house sale, 2025
+62%
two-to-six-flat median since 2019
16%
of 2026 purchases through May have a corporate buyer
7,914
small apartment buildings gone from the rolls since 2006
Sale figures cover January 2018 through May 28, 2026;
every analysis carries its full sources and as-of dates.
What homes actually cost
MOVING HEREWhat a Chicago Home Actually Sold For241,653 deeds, all 77 community areas, 2018 to mid-2026, with a map you can scrub through seven years.THE BUYERSChicago Loses a Two-to-Six-Flat Every DayThe stock, price, and buyers of the city’s signature small apartment building, measured over twenty years.THE NEW LAWThe Federal Housing Law, Measured Against ChicagoFour provisions of the ROAD to Housing Act, checked against our deeds, permits and inspection records.FINANCINGThe Loans That Weren’t Written1,424 homes sold under $100,000; lenders wrote 289 mortgages that size. The mortgage gap, neighborhood by neighborhood.THE BUYERSWho Is Buying Chicago?Deconversions, scattered-site operators, a nonprofit receiver, and 9,704 quick flips: the buyer names on nine years of deeds.
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The bigger picture
Renters and the rules
How this hub works
Analyses are added as they publish, and the numbers above refresh with each update; annual figures get a full revisit each winter when the county’s complete-year records land. Methods are disclosed inside every piece, including the screens we apply to raw records and the thresholds where we suppress thin data rather than guess. If you spot an error anywhere in the cluster, corrections come first.
