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August 21, 2026· Updated September 13, 2026
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Geneva, IL Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in Geneva: a median closing price of $525,000 across 165 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.

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

If you invest in or around Geneva, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Geneva 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: 165
  • Median sold price, last 6 months: $525,000
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $256
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $399,000 and $680,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 165 closed sales in Geneva over the last six months, with a median closing price of $525,000. 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 $399,000 and $680,000. 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 161 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $224 and $303 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Geneva, IL (September 2026)

The median home price in Geneva is $525,000, measured across the 165 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $399,000 and $680,000.

Where Geneva sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Geneva
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $399k to $680k
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$305k to $434k: 47 sales47sales$305k$434k to $563k: 41 sales$563k to $692k: 31 sales$563k$692k to $821k: 18 sales$821k to $950k: 12 sales$821kMedian $525k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Geneva 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 $399,000 and $680,000. Among the 91 Illinois markets with a published band, Geneva's middle-half spread ($399,000 to $680,000) ranks 40th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

Median sold price per square foot
Geneva 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.
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Apr 2026: $275 per square foot across 22 sales$275AprMay 2026: $258 per square foot across 33 sales$258MayJun 2026: $230 per square foot across 25 sales$230JunJul 2026: $254 per square foot across 25 sales$254JulAug 2026: $271 per square foot across 27 sales$271Aug

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 30 days, across 58 Geneva closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 12 days, across 30 Geneva 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 165 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Geneva angle

Geneva gives you a fairly ordinary price band and a limited amount of evidence behind it. The band being ordinary matters: the middle half of sales still covers real distance, so $525,000 is not a close description of any particular address by default. Sequence the work accordingly. Match property type and rough size first, see what remains, and widen on whichever attribute is least material to the subject property. Treat the citywide midpoint as an indication of where the market sits rather than a base price. The upper half of the band is the wider of the two: $525,000 to $680,000 is a longer stretch than $399,000 to $525,000. Above the midpoint the tracked sales sit further apart than below it.

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 Geneva 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: Geneva, IL
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1728872
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 165
Median sold price: $525,000
Median sold $/sqft: $256 (161 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 Geneva over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Geneva 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 12% of the 165 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone matched it at $525,000.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Geneva?

The median sold price in Geneva over the last 6 months is $525,000, measured across 165 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Geneva last month?

Resideline tracked 30 closed sales in Geneva in August 2026, out of 165 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 Geneva?

The middle half of Geneva sales over the last six months closed between $399,000 and $680,000, with a median of $525,000.

What is the typical price per square foot in Geneva?

Among qualifying Geneva closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $256, measured across 161 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

Which property attributes should I hold constant when comps are scarce?

Hold property type first, then a workable size window, then condition. Those three drive most of the difference between two closings, and loosening any of them changes the answer more than loosening a distance radius usually does. Give up the attribute that matters least for the specific house, document it, and widen the resulting estimate into a range rather than presenting a single figure with false precision.

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