Douglas By The Numbers: Prices, Buyers, Permits

The median condominium in Douglas, in Bronzeville on Chicago’s South Side, sold for $140,000 in 2025, up 16 percent from $121,000 in 2019, the fifth-smallest rise among the 37 community areas with enough condominium sales to compare. Condominiums are most of what sells: 75 of the 103 home sales in 2025. The median house rose 41 percent, from $362,500 to $510,000, on 32 sales in 2019 and 21 in 2025.

Drawn from our analyses of county and city records · sales file as updated September 15, 2026 · assembled October 1, 2026

Douglas in the recordsfigure

Median house sale, 2025$362,500 in 2019. 21 sales in 2025.$510K
Median condominium sale, 2025$121,000 in 2019. 75 sales in 2025.$140K
Market signals activeOf four that could be measured.0 of 4
Homes bought by companies, 2024–2513.7 percent in 2018–19.12.0%
Bought 2018–22 and resold within two years38 of 625 purchases.6.1%
Two-to-six-flats on the tax rolls, 2026309 in 2006.262

What homes sold for

The county recorded sales of 21 houses, seven two-to-six-flats and 75 condominiums in Douglas in 2025. The median house sold for $362,500 in 2019 and $510,000 in 2025, up 41 percent, 45th among the 70 community areas with 20 or more house sales in both years. Citywide the median house went from $230,000 to $320,000, up 39 percent. The median condominium went from $121,000 to $140,000, up 16 percent, 33rd among the 37 community areas with 20 or more condominium sales in both years; citywide the rise was 26 percent. The 2025 figure rests on 21 house sales, few enough that a handful of sales can move it. Too few two-to-six-flats sold in one of the two years for a median.

Every area and year, and the rules for which sales are counted: What a Chicago Home Actually Sold For: 245,849 Deeds Since 2018, All 77 Community Areas

None of the four market signals that could be measured is active, and one could not be measured

Our gentrification-signals analysis checks five records in every community area for unusually fast change between 2018–19 and 2024–25: house prices, two-to-six-flat prices, the share of homes bought by companies, new-construction permits and new business licenses. In Douglas, four of the five could be measured and none of those is active. Of the 67 areas scored, three show four signals and 40 show none. A signal is a measurement of change between two periods. It does not describe the people who live in an area or say what happens next.

The five signals in Douglasactive

House pricesCounts only where the 2019 median house price was below the citywide $230,000. Here it was $362,500.no
Two-to-six-flat pricesFewer than 20 sales of two-to-six-flats in 2019 or in 2025, too few to measure.n/a
Company buyersCompanies bought 13.7 percent of homes sold in 2018–19 and 12.0 percent in 2024–25, down 1.7 points. The bar is a rise of five points.no
New-construction permitsPermits numbered 25 in 2018–19 and 19 in 2024–25. The bar is 1.5 times the earlier count, with at least eight in the later period.no
New business licensesFirst-time licenses numbered 43 in 2019 and 33 in 2025, down 23 percent. The bar is 15 percent growth, with at least 30 in 2025.no

Did Douglas condominiums keep pace with the city’s? No: the citywide median condominium rose 26 percent over the same years. The tax rolls show 262 two-to-six-flats, 47 fewer than in 2006, a drop of 15 percent; of the 72 that left the class, 51 are now classed as houses. Our reading: in Douglas the price rise is in the houses, few of which sell, while the condominiums that make up nearly three-quarters of sales moved slowly.

Every area scored, with the thresholds: Where Chicago’s Gentrification Signals Are Active: East Garfield Park, New City and North Lawndale Show Four of Five. Logan Square, Avondale and the Lower West Side Show None.

Who bought

Companies bought 12.0 percent of the 208 homes sold in Douglas in 2024 and 2025, and 13.7 percent of those sold in 2018 and 2019. Citywide the share was 14.2 percent in the later period. A buyer counts as a company when its name on the deed carries a marker such as LLC, Inc. or Corp.; trustees of land trusts are counted as trusts. Of those company purchases, two in 2024 and 2025 and one in 2018 and 2019 were units of a building in which the same company bought five or more. Of the 625 homes bought here from 2018 through 2022, 38 were sold again by their buyer within two years, 6.1 percent. The citywide rate is 7.1 percent.

The buyer names on the deeds, and the resales, are counted here: Who Is Buying Chicago? The Buyer’s Name on 245,849 Deeds: Companies Bought 13 Percent of Homes and 46 Percent of Those Resold Within Two Years

Condominium buildings bought in bulk, and the rules for selling one whole: Chicago’s Condo Deconversion Pattern: 69 Buildings Bought in Bulk Since 2018 Left the Tax Rolls as Condominiums, the Nearest Parcels Now Classed as Apartment Buildings or Two-to-Six-Flats

Two-to-six-flats since 2006

The Assessor’s rolls counted 309 two-to-six-flat parcels in Douglas in 2006 and 262 in 2026. Over the twenty years 72 left the class, and the largest group of those, 51, are now classed as single-family houses. Another 25 parcels joined the class. Citywide the count fell from 127,818 to 119,943.

Every flat parcel of 2006, followed to 2026: Chicago’s Tax Rolls Show 7,875 Fewer Two-to-Six-Flats Than in 2006. Of the 13,049 Parcels That Left the Count, 6,208 Are Now Classed as Single-Family Houses.

Valuations, appeals and mortgages

Owners of 16.7 of every 100 houses appealed their assessment to the Board of Review for tax year 2025, counting each house once, against 17.5 citywide, and 30 percent of those appeals won.

Valuations against sale prices, area by area: Chicago Houses and Two-to-Six-Flats Sold in 2025 Were Valued at 81 Percent of Their Sale Prices. Those Resold Within Two Years, at 60 Percent.

Appeals per 100 houses, mapped: Nearly Half of Lincoln Park’s Houses Appealed Their Property Tax Assessments. On the Southeast Side, About One in 24 Did.

Federal mortgage records show 75 home-purchase loans in Douglas in 2025, and the county file shows 103 sales. The two are separate systems with different coverage and do not match sale for sale. Of the sales, six were for $100,000 or less, and lenders made four purchase loans that size. The records do not say how the other sales were paid for. Of the loans, five were marked as not for the borrower’s own occupancy.

The lending records and their limits: At Least 1,532 Chicago Homes Sold for $100,000 or Less in 2025. Lenders Wrote 289 Mortgages That Size.

Permits and licenses

The city issued seven new-construction permits in Douglas in the first half of 2025 and eight in the first half of 2026. Citywide the counts were 666 and 698. Counted two years at a time, the area had 25 in 2018–19 and 19 in 2024–25. A permit is an approval to build and is not a finished building.

Every permit of the half-year, by area: Chicago Issued 698 New-Construction Permits in the First Half of 2026. Here’s Where They Went.

First-time business licenses numbered 43 in 2019 and 33 in 2025. Citywide they fell from 7,464 to 6,503. The file counts licenses issued and does not show whether a business opened or stayed open.

The citywide count: Chicago Licenses 1,000 Fewer New Businesses a Year Than Before the Pandemic. The Gap Is Downtown.

City services

For requests to 311 created from January 1, 2024 through June 15, 2026, the median time to close in Douglas was: graffiti removal, the same day on 417 requests, against 0.7 days citywide; potholes, 1.1 days on 485 requests, against 5.8 days citywide; streetlight outages, 2.0 days on 737 requests, against 2.5 days citywide; abandoned vehicles, 8.8 days on 453 requests, against 11.6 days citywide; rodent complaints, 2.9 days on 198 requests, against 3.1 days citywide. A closed request is the city’s record that it closed the request. It does not confirm the repair.

Every request type and area, with the method: A Chicago 311 Garbage-Cart Request Took a Median 15.9 Days to Close, a Pothole 5.8 and a Traffic-Signal-Out Report 3 Hours: 883,837 Requests Timed by Community Area

Affordable-rental inventory and the L

The city’s affordable-rental inventory lists 17 developments with 896 units in Douglas, 11th by units among the 66 community areas on the list. The inventory is the city’s own list of developments its programs support. It was last updated December 30, 2024 and is partial by its own description.

Our count of that inventory is in a piece that also covers the state law barring rent control: New York City’s Rent Board Set 2026-27 Stabilized Increases at Zero. Illinois Law Bars Chicago From Controlling Private Rents.

One L station stands inside Douglas’s boundary, by the CTA’s station coordinates and the city’s community-area map. 35th-Bronzeville-IIT, on the Green Line, averaged 1,592 weekday entries in January through May 2019 and 1,155 in the same months of 2026, 73 percent of the earlier figure. Systemwide the figure is 62 percent.

Every station against its own 2019 count: Only Two L Stations Are Busier Than Before the Pandemic. Neither Is Downtown.

How this page is built

Every figure on this page is read from the published output of the analysis linked beside it, as those stood on October 1, 2026. Nothing here is measured separately, and each linked analysis states its own sources, periods and limits. The sale prices and buyer shares come from the county’s sales file as updated September 15, 2026. The county is still adding sales dated 2025, and those figures get another reading in January 2027. This page reports what the records show and takes no position on where anyone ought to live.

Assembled by KCM Desk from the analyses linked above. Published October 7, 2026; rebuilt October 1, 2026. Human-guided and edited — about this desk. If you spot an error, corrections come first.