Back to Blog
Market Watch
August 21, 2026· Updated September 6, 2026
5 min read

Brookfield, WI Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in Brookfield: a median closing price of $547,500 across 301 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.

Resideline Team
Brookfield, WI Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Brookfield, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Brookfield sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of September 2026.

The snapshot

  • Closings tracked, last 6 months: 301
  • Median sold price, last 6 months: $547,500
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $238
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $427,900 and $720,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 301 closed sales in Brookfield over the last six months, with a median closing price of $547,500. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $427,900 and $720,000. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. Across the 300 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $210 and $267 per square foot.

Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Brookfield, WI (September 2026)

The median home price in Brookfield is $547,500, measured across the 301 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $427,900 and $720,000.

Where Brookfield sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Brookfield
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $428k to $720k
Tap to enlarge
$313k to $412k: 49 sales$313k$412k to $511k: 74 sales74sales$511k to $611k: 53 sales$511k$611k to $710k: 37 sales$710k to $810k: 23 sales$710k$810k to $909k: 22 sales$909k to $1.01M: 12 sales$909k$1.01M to $1.11M: 4 salesMedian $548k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Brookfield over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $427,900 and $720,000. Among the 37 Wisconsin markets with a published band, Brookfield's middle-half spread ($427,900 to $720,000) ranks 21st from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 50th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

Median sold price per square foot
Brookfield monthly medians for the complete months inside the last six months, Apr 2026 to Aug 2026, among qualifying closings with usable living area. 5 months plotted.
Tap to enlarge
Apr 2026: $245 per square foot across 39 sales$245AprMay 2026: $229 per square foot across 57 sales$229MayJun 2026: $246 per square foot across 54 sales$246JunJul 2026: $239 per square foot across 56 sales$239JulAug 2026: $223 per square foot across 58 sales$223Aug

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 13 days, across 100 Brookfield closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 18 days, across 81 Brookfield closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
Both are measured from the closings themselves, not from listing inventory. Each sale is timed using its own listing and contract dates. That is why these counts are smaller than the 301 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Brookfield angle

Nothing about Brookfield's spread is unusual, which is itself useful information. The distance between $427,900 and $720,000 is about typical for the markets we track, so the citywide figures deserve the standard treatment: $547,500 orients, comps decide. 301 is a solid sample, and that is where the leverage is. Filter to a single property type, then hold size within a range you would defend to someone who has seen the property, and check whether enough closings survive to show a pattern. If they do, build the estimate from them and use the quartiles only to test whether the result is plausible for this market. The band is not evenly balanced. From $547,500 up to $720,000 is a longer run than from $547,500 down to $427,900, so a comp set that skews toward larger or more finished homes will lift an estimate further than a similarly skewed modest set will lower one. Check the composition before you check the answer.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Brookfield address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:

code
Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Brookfield, WI
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 5510025
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 301
Median sold price: $547,500
Median sold $/sqft: $238 (300 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/brookfield-wi-housing-market

Writing about this market? Paste this into your post:

code
<a href="https://resideline.com/blog/brookfield-wi-housing-market">
  <img src="https://resideline.com/images/embed/brookfield-wi.png" alt="Brookfield, WI home sale price distribution, last six months" width="1000" style="max-width:100%;height:auto">
</a>
<p>Source: <a href="https://resideline.com/blog/brookfield-wi-housing-market">Resideline Market Watch</a></p>

The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Brookfield over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Brookfield city limits are not limited to listing-service sales: they also include foreclosure deeds, estate and family transfers, and other off-market sales that portal medians exclude, which is why 16% of the 301 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $565,000.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Brookfield?

The median sold price in Brookfield over the last 6 months is $547,500, measured across 301 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Brookfield last month?

Resideline tracked 59 closed sales in Brookfield in August 2026, out of 301 closings tracked over the last six months. These are tracked samples of market activity, not official county totals.

What is the typical sale price range in Brookfield?

The middle half of Brookfield sales over the last six months closed between $427,900 and $720,000, with a median of $547,500.

What is the typical price per square foot in Brookfield?

Among qualifying Brookfield closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $238, measured across 300 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

How do I sanity check a Brookfield valuation?

Compare it to the citywide quartiles, but only after the comp work is done. If your estimate sits inside the middle half of closings, the market is not arguing with you. If it sits outside, that is not automatically wrong, since sales land beyond the band in both directions, but you should be able to point at the feature of the property that justifies it. An estimate you cannot explain relative to the range is usually a comp selection problem.

Ready to Start Investing Smarter?

Join 2,000+ investors using Resideline.
3 free reports at signup. No card required.

Start Free

Keep reading

All articles