Former Chicago Blackhawks great Patrick Kane, who now skates for the Detroit Red Wings, in late June sold his four-bedroom, 4,776-square-foot condominium on the 25th floor of the luxury Near North Side tower at 9 W. Walton Street in an off-market transaction for $6.4 million.
Kane starred as a right winger for the Blackhawks from 2007 until 2023, during that time leading the club to three Stanley Cup finals victories and being selected to nine NHL All-Star Games.
Over the years, Kane has owned several residential properties in Chicago and on the North Shore. In the building at 9 W. Walton, Kane paid $6.4625 million in 2019 for his unit.
In late June, Kane sold the unit in an off-market deal, according to public records, so no details about are available in listing information. However, in a sign of the softness of the downtown condo market, Kane took a loss on the $6.4 million sale, selling the condo for 1% less than he had paid for it in 2019.
At the time Kane purchased the unit, it had 4-1/2 bathrooms, a fireplace and hardwood floors, according to listing information.
The buyer of the unit is an opaque land trust whose beneficiary — and thus, the actual buyer of the condo — could not be determined. The trustee for that land trust is Jeffrey Zaluda, a partner in the private client practice at the law firm of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. He did not respond to a request for comment.
Kane continues to own at least two other Chicago-area properties. In 2008, he paid $2.06 million for a 33th-floor condo in the Trump International Hotel & Tower. Kane continues to own that unit. He also reportedly paid $5 million in 2022 for a five-bedroom, 5,932-square-foot Greek Revival-style house close to Lake Michigan in Lake Forest.
In late March, Kane sold a three-bedroom, 3,102-square-foot unit on the 69th floor of the Trump building for $2.11 million.
Kane’s now-former condo unit in the building at 9 W. Walton had a $133,427 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year.
The building at 9 W. Walton once had been a haven for athletes, but in recent years, athletes there have been doing more selling than buying. Former Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine currently has his three-bedroom, 4,500-square-foot condo on the building’s 28th floor — which he bought from former Chicago Bears linebacker Khalil Mack — for sale for $6.9 million. Kane’s former teammate and onetime fellow Blackhawks star, Jonathan Toews, sold his 29th-floor unit in the building in 2019 for $6.95 million. Also, former Chicago Cubs player Jason Heyward sold a four-bedroom, 5,230-square-foot condo in the building in 2020 for $7.2 million.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.