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August 27, 2026· Updated October 3, 2026
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Champaign, IL Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in Champaign: a median closing price of $237,500 across 573 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.

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Champaign, IL Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

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

The snapshot

  • •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 573
  • •Median sold price, last 6 months: $237,500
  • •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $158
  • •Middle half of sales closed between: $170,000 and $331,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 573 closed sales in Champaign over the last six months, with a median closing price of $237,500. 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 $170,000 and $331,000. 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 535 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $137 and $184 per square foot.

Figures last updated October 3, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Champaign, IL (October 2026)

The median home price in Champaign is $237,500, measured across the 573 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $170,000 and $331,000.

Where Champaign sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Champaign
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $170k to $331k
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$100k to $159k: 78 sales$100k$159k to $218k: 139 sales139sales$218k to $277k: 107 sales$218k$277k to $336k: 81 sales$336k to $395k: 44 sales$336k$395k to $454k: 19 sales$454k to $513k: 27 sales$454k$513k to $572k: 11 salesMedian $238k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Champaign 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 $170,000 and $331,000. Among the 91 Illinois markets with a published band, Champaign's middle-half spread ($170,000 to $331,000) ranks 56th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

Median sold price per square foot
Champaign monthly medians for the complete months inside the last six months, May 2026 to Sep 2026, among qualifying closings with usable living area. 5 months plotted.
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May 2026: $154 per square foot across 104 sales$154MayJun 2026: $160 per square foot across 125 sales$160JunJul 2026: $164 per square foot across 98 sales$164JulAug 2026: $161 per square foot across 75 sales$161AugSep 2026: $155 per square foot across 53 sales$155Sep

How long a sale takes here

  • •Listed to under contract: a median of 23 days, across 239 Champaign closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • •Contract to closing: a median of 28 days, across 125 Champaign 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 573 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

Champaign prices by property type

Among the Champaign closings with usable living area over the last six months, single-family houses closed at a median of $161 per square foot (414 sales) and condos at $153 (82 sales).

The Champaign angle

Champaign generated 573 tracked closings over the last six months, with a median closed sale price of $237,500 and the middle half of sales stretching from $170,000 to $331,000. Somewhat more of the band lies above the median than below it, giving upside cases extra ordinary ground, though both directions cover real distance. The useful discipline in Champaign is to price from closed sales matched on the subject's attributes and then locate the result inside the band: a number outside the middle half asserts the property is unusual, and the evidence should be strong enough to carry that assertion.

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, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR 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 Champaign address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Champaign, IL
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1712385
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 573
Median sold price: $237,500
Median sold $/sqft: $158 (535 qualifying)
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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 Champaign over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Champaign 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 24% of the 573 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $251,250.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Champaign?

The median sold price in Champaign over the last 6 months is $237,500, measured across 573 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Champaign last month?

Resideline has tracked 59 closed sales in Champaign in September 2026 so far, out of 573 closings tracked over the last six months. The most recent month keeps filling in for several weeks as closings are recorded, so this count will rise. These are tracked samples of market activity, not official county totals.

What is the typical sale price range in Champaign?

The middle half of Champaign sales over the last six months closed between $170,000 and $331,000, with a median of $237,500.

What is the typical price per square foot in Champaign?

Among qualifying Champaign closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $158, measured across 535 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

Why is there such a large gap between $170,000 and $331,000 in Champaign?

Half of tracked Champaign closings fell inside that span, which is wider than most markets we track, meaning very different sale prices are all ordinary outcomes here. Price within that reality using matched closed sales, with the citywide figures as context.

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