Lake In The Hills, IL Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Lake In The Hills, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Lake In The Hills 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: 194
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $374,950
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $197
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $287,500 and $455,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 194 closed sales in Lake In The Hills over the last six months, with a median closing price of $374,950. 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 $287,500 and $455,000. 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 191 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $166 and $237 per square foot.

Figures last updated November 4, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Lake In The Hills, IL (October 2026)

The median home price in Lake In The Hills is $374,950, measured across the 194 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $287,500 and $455,000.

Where Lake In The Hills sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Lake In The Hills 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 $287,500 and $455,000. Among the 91 Illinois markets with a published band, Lake In The Hills's middle-half spread ($287,500 to $455,000) ranks 25th 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 37th percentile of the 2,291 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of November 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 22 days, across 79 Lake In The Hills closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

This is measured from the closings themselves, not from listing inventory. Each sale is timed using its own dates. That is why this count is smaller than the 194 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold the dates it needs.

The Lake In The Hills angle

Lake in the Hills produced 194 tracked closings over the last six months, with a median closed price of $374,950 and the middle half of sales running $287,500 to $455,000. Two things make this an unusually readable market. The spread is close to typical for the markets we track, and the median sits near the center of its band, so neither side of the middle half dominates the other. That balance means distance from $374,950 carries the same meaning in either direction, which is not true everywhere. It does not replace comps. Matched closed sales still set the number for a specific property; the band just gives you an evenly calibrated way to judge whether that number is ordinary for Lake in the Hills.

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 Lake In The Hills 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: Lake In The Hills, IL
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1741183
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 194
Median sold price: $374,950
Median sold $/sqft: $197 (191 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 Lake In The Hills over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Lake In The Hills 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 23% of the 194 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $395,000.