Market Insights · Glencoe
Glencoe Real Estate Market Statistics
What Glencoe'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, Glencoe. Calendar-2025 reference figures: MRED closed sales, January–December 2025, compiled by Lisa Finks.
What the numbers say
Glencoe this month, in plain terms
Is Glencoe a seller's market or a buyer's market?
Still a seller's market. At September's pace it would take about 2.7 months to sell every detached house listed in Glencoe. Under four months generally favors sellers; above six favors buyers. Supply has loosened a little since late 2024 and early 2025, when it dropped to about one month. More owners are listing: 194 new detached listings in the last twelve months, against 150 the year before. Even so, supply is nowhere near the five to ten months that were normal through most of the 2010s.
Are prices going up?
The twelve-month median for a detached Glencoe house reached $1,934,417 in September 2026, against $1,650,000 a year earlier, about 17% higher. Read that carefully. Glencoe had 123 detached sales in those twelve months, so a change in the mix of houses that sold can move the median significantly. The figure accurately describes what sold; it does not mean every Glencoe house appreciated by the same percentage. Over a longer view the direction is clear: the same measure was $860,000 in September 2019.
How fast are houses selling?
Quickly. Over the twelve months to September the median Glencoe house went under contract seven days after listing and sold for 100.9% of its last asking price. It took an average of ten showings, against eleven a year earlier and eighteen to twenty in 2012. Our own analysis of 423 Glencoe houses that went under contract between January 2023 and September 2026 found that 57% did so within eight days. A quarter took more than three weeks, though, so a fast median doesn't guarantee a fast sale.
What does this mean if you're selling?
Low supply is on your side, but price to the houses that sold most recently near yours, not to the headline median. A median that rose 17% in a market this small says more about which houses sold than about any one street. Timing still matters at the margin: in our 2023–2026 analysis, March listings had the strongest observed results. See the Glencoe timing study.
What does this mean if you're buying?
Expect competition for well-priced houses and few to choose from at any moment. Be ready before the right one appears: financing in place, a clear sense of value, and an eye on Coming Soon listings that show up before they're active.
Coming Soon & Private Exclusives
Before homes reach the active market
Not every Glencoe 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; a smaller share means supply is outpacing buyers.
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 | 32 | 9 | 28% (19%) | 6.3 (5.3) |
| February | 31 | 10 | 32% (35%) | 4.0 (7.9) |
| March | 29 | 10 | 34% (34%) | 4.9 (6.8) |
| April | 35 | 9 | 26% (39%) | 6.2 (8.8) |
| May | 42 | 9 | 21% (35%) | 4.4 (7.8) |
| June | 51 | 17 | 33% (33%) | 6.7 (5.4) |
| July | 50 | 16 | 32% (29%) | 3.3 (4.9) |
| August | 33 | 5 | 15% (28%) | 3.0 (4.3) |
| September | 40 | 7 | 18% (26%) | 3.5 (4.3) |
| October | – | – | – (23%) | – (4.0) |
| November | – | – | – (24%) | – (4.8) |
| December | – | – | – (21%) | – (4.3) |
Through September, Glencoe has had more houses to choose from than usual, while the number going under contract has been about normal. From January through September, 163 detached houses came to market, against a typical 139 for those months, about 18% more. Contracts held about level: 92 houses went under contract, against a typical 95. Month by month, the number that went under contract, measured against the houses available that month, was above typical in two months (January and July), essentially equal in two (March and June) and below typical in five. Spring was generally quieter relative to supply: in April, 9 of 35 available houses went under contract (26%, against a typical 39%), and in May 9 of 42 did (21%, against a typical 35%). July was one of the stronger relative months, with 16 of 50 (32%, against a typical 29%). August was the quietest, with 5 of 33 (15%, against a typical 28%). Showings per listing were below typical in most months, seven of the nine. Glencoe’s monthly numbers are small, so a few contracts can swing a single month; the pattern across the year is the more reliable signal.
Glencoe, 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 2008
These charts update automatically from MRED, so they may show a newer month than the text above.
Median sale price
Glencoe, single-family detached. Each point is 12 months of activity. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, updated automatically.
The median has more than doubled since 2019, after a decade spent between about $850,000 and $1,000,000. The biggest jumps came in 2021, 2024 and 2026; 2025 was nearly flat.
Months supply of homes for sale
Glencoe, single-family detached. Each point is one month of activity. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, updated automatically.
How long it would take to sell everything listed at the current pace. Glencoe has stayed between about one and three months since 2021, against a peak above twenty in 2008.
Average showings to contract
Glencoe, single-family detached. Each point is 12 months of activity. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, updated automatically.
Fewer showings per contract means buyers decide faster. Glencoe now runs at about ten, roughly half the foot traffic of 2012.
New listings
Glencoe, 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 194 new listings, up from 150.
Calendar 2025
Where the sales happened
Every closed sale in Glencoe in 2025: detached houses, townhouses and condominiums. Vacant land excluded. Refreshed each January.
120 sales in all: median $1,605,000, average $1,868,255. Detached houses only: 112 sales, median $1,700,000. Glencoe had only eight condominium and townhouse sales in 2025, too few for a separate attached-home section on this page. Source: MRED closed sales, January–December 2025, compiled by Lisa Finks.
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.
The houses that sold fall into three broad groups of similar size: about a quarter built before 1940 (32 of 122), about three in ten from the 1940s through the 1960s (37; the 1950s alone account for 20, more than any other decade), and about a third built since 2000 (41). Only 12 were built between 1970 and 1999. 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.
Year built as recorded in the MLS listing. One detached sale listed the year as unknown and is excluded. A house rebuilt on an older lot shows its new construction year. Glencoe had only six condominium and townhouse sales in these twelve months, too few for a separate age breakdown. Source: MRED closed sales, October 2025–September 2026, compiled by Lisa Finks. Refreshed monthly.
New construction
What sold as new construction in Glencoe
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, 13 of the detached houses that sold in Glencoe were new construction. Their median sale price was $2,850,000. The range was wide, from $1,910,000 to $7,250,000, and with 13 sales a single closing can move the median noticeably.
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 Glencoe unless a figure says otherwise. The calendar-2025 price bands include condominiums and townhouses.
- Twelve-month figures. Price and showings use a rolling twelve months, because a single month in a market this size can swing on two or three sales.
- Year built. The age-of-homes section uses the year built recorded in each MLS listing; listings marked unknown are left out.
- 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.
- Median first. The median is the middle sale. We show it ahead of the average, which a few very large sales can pull up.
- 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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