Neighborhoods · South Side
Why people love it
More new construction than anywhere else in Kenwood, on land that sat empty for decades.
What's drawing people
Green Line west, lakefront east, and Bronzeville immediately north.
The value
If you want a building rather than a house, walk north. Bronzeville starts a few blocks up and has a real market.
What people say about North Kenwood
North Kenwood is where Kenwood stops being a mansion district. It is also the part that borders a real building market, which is why I pay attention to it.
Roughly the blocks between 43rd and 47th, running from the lake west toward Cottage Grove. Mid-century clearance left a lot of vacant land here, and most of the last two decades of building in Kenwood has happened on it.
The result is a mix you do not see in South Kenwood: new single-family and townhome construction next to surviving vintage buildings next to lots that are still empty.
Kenwood houses ran a median near $775,000 in 2025, up about 62% since 2013. Small multi-unit buildings barely trade anywhere in Kenwood, about six a year across the whole community area, which is why this page charts houses.
The more interesting number for an investor is next door. Bronzeville, which starts a few blocks north, had a 2-to-4 unit median near $620,000 in 2025, up roughly 370% since 2013. The northern blocks of North Kenwood sit close enough to that market to be worth watching.
This is the part of Kenwood I would actually shop. Prices are below the mansion blocks, the stock is more varied, and the direction of travel from Bronzeville is favorable.
Last updated August 2026.
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