Market Insights · Wilmette
Wilmette Real Estate Market Statistics
What Wilmette's housing market is doing now — prices, supply and how quickly houses sell — with what it means if you're buying or selling.
At a glance
The numbers, twelve months to September 2026
Source: MRED via InfoSparks, single-family detached, Wilmette. Calendar-2025 and condominium figures: MRED closed sales.
What the numbers say
Wilmette this month, in plain terms
Is Wilmette a seller's market or a buyer's market?
A strong seller's market. At September's pace it would take less than a month, about 0.9 months, to sell every detached house listed in Wilmette. Under four months generally favors sellers; above six favors buyers. Supply has stayed between about 0.4 and 1.9 months since 2021, and it isn't loosening: owners listed 349 detached houses in the last twelve months, against 405 the year before. At the end of September there were 20 detached houses for sale. Between 2016 and 2019, Wilmette typically carried two to seven months of supply.
Are prices going up?
The twelve-month median for a detached Wilmette house reached $1,400,036 in September 2026, against $1,239,500 a year earlier, about 13% higher. With 306 detached sales in those twelve months, Wilmette's median is steadier than in the smaller lakefront villages, but it still reflects which houses happened to sell: more new construction or more east-side sales in one year can lift it. It describes what sold; it does not mean every Wilmette house appreciated by 13%. The longer direction is clear: the same measure was $713,000 in September 2019.
How fast are houses selling?
Very quickly. Over the twelve months to September the median Wilmette house went under contract five days after listing and sold for 102.7% of its last asking price. It took an average of twelve showings, against thirteen a year earlier and sixteen at the 2021–2022 peak. Our own analysis of 1,103 Wilmette houses that went under contract between January 2023 and September 2026 found that 65% did so within eight days. About one in five took more than three weeks, though, and about one in eighteen took more than two months, so a fast median doesn't guarantee a fast sale.
What does this mean if you're selling?
Very low supply is on your side, but price to the houses that sold most recently near yours, not to the village median. A Wilmette median mixes very different houses, from west-side split-levels to new construction near the lake. Timing still matters at the margin: in our 2023–2026 analysis, April listings had the strongest observed results. See the Wilmette timing study.
What does this mean if you're buying?
Expect competition for well-priced houses and very few to choose from at any moment: twenty detached houses at the end of September. Be ready before the right one appears, with financing in place, a clear sense of value, and an eye on Coming Soon listings that show up before they're active. Condominiums and townhouses have been less heated, closing at a median of about 100.5% of asking over the same twelve months.
Coming Soon & Private Exclusives
Before homes reach the active market
Not every Wilmette sale starts as an active listing. Coming Soon homes are marketed before their broader public-market launch, giving buyers an earlier opportunity to learn about a property. Buyers can express interest and make offers during this stage; whether a seller considers an offer before the broader launch is up to the seller. Compass Private Exclusives are not publicly marketed while they are offered as Private Exclusives; some later come to the open market. Neither guarantees access to a particular home.
This year vs. a typical year
Is 2026 running hotter or cooler than usual?
Each month of 2026 so far, set against the same month’s average for 2023 to 2025. When a bigger share of the available houses goes under contract than usual, buyers are outpacing supply.
1 · How many houses were available, and how many went under contract
Homes available, 2026Went under contract, 2026Typical for that month (2023–2025 average)
2 · Showings per listing: how many showings each house drew that month
2026Typical for that month (2023–2025 average)
Monthly figures
| Month | Homes available, 2026 | Under contract, 2026 | Share under contract, 2026 (typical) | Showings per listing, 2026 (typical) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 36 | 18 | 50% (43%) | 9.6 (9.1) |
| February | 42 | 17 | 40% (45%) | 12.3 (12.6) |
| March | 66 | 50 | 76% (49%) | 12.6 (12.1) |
| April | 56 | 31 | 55% (50%) | 15.3 (13.2) |
| May | 56 | 38 | 68% (47%) | 11.6 (9.4) |
| June | 60 | 32 | 53% (40%) | 8.7 (8.1) |
| July | 44 | 21 | 48% (34%) | 8.3 (7.5) |
| August | 37 | 13 | 35% (31%) | 7.1 (7.2) |
| September | 44 | 19 | 43% (42%) | 7.1 (6.6) |
| October | – | – | – (38%) | – (7.5) |
| November | – | – | – (32%) | – (6.6) |
| December | – | – | – (28%) | – (6.0) |
Through September, 2026 has been a tighter year than usual in Wilmette. From January through September, 290 detached houses came to market, against a typical 342 for those months, about 15% fewer. Contracts nearly kept pace anyway: 239 houses went under contract, against a typical 246. In eight of the nine months, the number that went under contract was a larger share of the houses available that month than is typical; only February ran below. The gap was widest from March through July. In March, 50 of 66 available houses went under contract (76%), against a typical 49%. Showings per listing were above typical in most months, seven of the nine, peaking at 15.3 in April against a typical 13.2.
Wilmette, detached houses. 2026 figures through September 2026; typical = the 2023, 2024 and 2025 average for the same month. Homes available: houses for sale at the end of the previous month plus new listings that month. Under contract: pending sales by contract month. Showings per listing: showing data from ShowingTime, counting only showings scheduled through ShowingTime. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, read 5 Oct 2026. Updated monthly.
Live charts
The trend, back to 2016
These charts update automatically from MRED, so they may show a newer month than the text above.
Median sale price
Wilmette, single-family detached. Each point is 12 months of activity. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, updated automatically. This chart starts in 2016.
The median stayed between about $675,000 and $800,000 from 2016 through 2020. It passed $1,000,000 at the end of 2023 and reached $1.4 million in September 2026.
Months supply of homes for sale
Wilmette, single-family detached. Each point is one month of activity. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, updated automatically. This chart starts in 2016.
How long it would take to sell everything listed at the current pace. Wilmette carried two to seven months of supply from 2016 to 2019 and has stayed under two months since 2021.
Average showings to contract
Wilmette, single-family detached. Each point is 12 months of activity. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, updated automatically. This chart starts in 2016.
Fewer showings per contract means buyers decide faster. Wilmette now runs at about twelve, against sixteen at the 2021–2022 peak.
New listings
Wilmette, single-family detached. Each point is one month. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, updated automatically. This chart starts in 2016.
How many houses come to market each month. The spring peak shows the selling season; the last twelve months brought 349 new listings, down from 405.
Condominiums and townhouses
The attached market, twelve months to September 2026
About a quarter of Wilmette sales are condominiums and townhouses, and about 45% of those (41 of 91 over these twelve months) were in Sheridan Road buildings. They behave differently from detached houses, so they get their own figures.
Source: MRED closed sales, October 2025–September 2026, condominiums and townhouses in Wilmette. The live charts above cover detached houses only.
Calendar 2025
Where the sales happened
Every closed sale in Wilmette in 2025: detached houses, townhouses and condominiums. Vacant land and one multi-unit building excluded. Refreshed each January.
405 sales in all: median $1,080,000, average $1,239,351. Detached houses only: 309 sales, median $1,276,000. Condominiums and townhouses: 96 sales, median $507,500, from $175,000 to $2,150,000. Most condominium sales fell under $1 million, while most detached sales were between $500,000 and $2 million. Source: MRED closed sales, January–December 2025.
Age of homes sold
When the houses that sold were built
Detached houses sold in the twelve months to September 2026, by the decade they were built.
Most of the houses that sold come from two periods: before 1940 (107 of 302) and the postwar decades from the 1940s through the 1960s (129). Very few houses built between 1970 and 1999 sold, only 9 of 302, and then the count picks up again for houses built since 2000 (57). Year built describes when a house was first constructed; it says little about its condition, renovations, additions or how it compares with any other house.
Condominiums and townhouses tell a different story: 49 of the 89 attached homes sold with a recorded year were built in the 1960s, and the median attached home sold was built in 1968.
Year built as recorded in the MLS listing. 4 detached and 2 attached sales listed the year as unknown and are excluded. A house rebuilt on an older lot shows its new construction year. Source: MRED closed sales, October 2025–September 2026. Refreshed monthly.
New construction
What sold as new construction in Wilmette
Newly built detached houses that closed in the twelve months to September 2026, treated as their own segment of the market.
In the twelve months to September 2026, 18 of the detached houses that sold in Wilmette were new construction. Their median sale price was $2,602,500, and every one sold between $1,500,000 and $3,200,000. Ten of the 18 closed between May and September 2026.
New construction means a detached house marked as new construction in the MLS listing. Source: MRED closed sales, October 2025–September 2026. Refreshed monthly.
Method
How these numbers are calculated
- Source. MRED, the multiple listing service for northern Illinois, via its InfoSparks reporting tool.
- What's counted. Single-family detached houses in Wilmette unless a figure says otherwise. The condominium and townhouse section and the calendar-2025 price bands include attached homes.
- Twelve-month figures. Price and showings use a rolling twelve months, so a few unusual sales in one month don't swing the picture.
- Year built. The age-of-homes section uses the year built recorded in each MLS listing; listings marked unknown are left out.
- Median first. The median is the middle sale. We show it ahead of the average, which a few very large sales can pull up.
- New construction. A detached house marked as new construction in the MLS listing. Shown as its own segment, with a median only when there are at least five sales, and never compared with older homes.
- This year vs. a typical year. Each month of the current year is compared with the average of the same month in the last three full years. “Homes available” is the houses for sale at the end of the previous month plus that month’s new listings, so each house counts once whether it went under contract, stayed on the market or was withdrawn.
- Updates. The text and figures are refreshed monthly. The live charts update themselves and may show a newer month than the text.
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