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

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

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 155
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $247,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $161
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $165,000 and $309,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 155 closed sales in Homewood over the last six months, with a median closing price of $247,000. 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 $165,000 and $309,000. 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 151 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $133 and $189 per square foot.

Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Homewood, IL (August 2026)

The median home price in Homewood is $247,000, measured across the 155 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $165,000 and $309,000.

Where Homewood sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Homewood over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $165,000 and $309,000. 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 33 days, across 49 Homewood closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 17 days, across 35 Homewood closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Homewood angle

Homewood sits on a comparatively thin base of closed sales. The band from $165,000 to $309,000 is about typical in width for our coverage, which makes $247,000 a workable orientation point rather than a precise anchor. That band is also lopsided. More dollars separate $165,000 from $247,000 than separate $247,000 from $309,000, so the spread sits on the lower side of the middle half. A comp set drawn mostly from below the median therefore implies a wider range of plausible outcomes than one drawn from above it. The practical move is to widen carefully, a single criterion at a time, and to record how many closings survive each cut so you know whether your estimate rests on a handful of sales or a real pool.

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. As of August 2026, the public scoreboard showed 3.26% median error across 11,465+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Homewood 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:

Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Homewood, IL
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 155
Median sold price: $247,000
Median sold $/sqft: $161 (151 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/homewood-il-housing-market

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 Homewood over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.