Eau Claire, WI Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Eau Claire, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Eau Claire 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: 582
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $300,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $172
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $230,000 and $375,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 582 closed sales in Eau Claire over the last six months, with a median closing price of $300,000. 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 $230,000 and $375,000. 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. 81% of the Eau Claire closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 579 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $143 and $202 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Eau Claire, WI (September 2026)

The median home price in Eau Claire is $300,000, measured across the 582 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $230,000 and $375,000.

Where Eau Claire sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Eau Claire 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 $230,000 and $375,000. Among the 37 Wisconsin markets with a published band, Eau Claire's middle-half spread ($230,000 to $375,000) ranks 13th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 17 days, across 128 Eau Claire closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 29 days, across 84 Eau Claire closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

Eau Claire Real Estate Market Trends in 2026

Among the Eau Claire closings with usable living area over the last six months, single-family houses closed at a median of $173 per square foot (471 sales), condos at $154 (50 sales) and multi-family homes at $170 (50 sales).

The Eau Claire angle

Across 582 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $300,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $230,000 and $375,000. Nothing in that shape argues for an unusual method, which is itself useful information: anchor on the median, bracket roughly evenly around it, then let matched closings pull the estimate wherever the subject warrants.

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

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Eau Claire, WI
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 5522300
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 582
Median sold price: $300,000
Median sold $/sqft: $172 (579 qualifying)
Property mix: 81% houses
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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 Eau Claire over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Eau Claire 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 18% of the 582 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $305,000.