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July 28, 2026· Updated October 3, 2026
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Naperville, IL Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in Naperville: a median closing price of $628,000 across 953 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread and a ZIP-level breakdown.

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

Naperville produces a steady stream of closings but little consensus: sales over the last six months span a range wide enough that the median is a midpoint between different markets, not a going rate. The distribution below matters more than the headline.

The snapshot

  • •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 953
  • •Median sold price, last 6 months: $628,000
  • •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $271
  • •Middle half of sales closed between: $430,000 and $850,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 953 closed sales in Naperville over the last six months, with a median closing price of $628,000. 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 $430,000 and $850,000. 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 947 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $239 and $309 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Naperville, IL (October 2026)

The median home price in Naperville is $628,000, measured across the 953 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $430,000 and $850,000.

Where Naperville sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Naperville
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $430k to $850k
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$250k to $391k: 141 sales$250k$391k to $531k: 168 sales168sales$531k to $672k: 163 sales$531k$672k to $813k: 162 sales$813k to $953k: 118 sales$813k$953k to $1.09M: 43 sales$1.09M to $1.23M: 38 sales$1.09M$1.23M to $1.38M: 20 salesMedian $628k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Naperville 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 $430,000 and $850,000. Among the 91 Illinois markets with a published band, Naperville's middle-half spread ($430,000 to $850,000) ranks 61st 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 76th percentile of the 2,230 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of October 3, 2026.

Median sold price per square foot
Naperville 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: $272 per square foot across 149 sales$272MayJun 2026: $280 per square foot across 184 sales$280JunJul 2026: $272 per square foot across 181 sales$272JulAug 2026: $268 per square foot across 176 sales$268AugSep 2026: $272 per square foot across 112 sales$272Sep

How long a sale takes here

  • •Listed to under contract: a median of 30 days, across 342 Naperville closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • •Contract to closing: a median of 12 days, across 127 Naperville 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 953 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Naperville angle

Naperville's closed-price band is a touch wider than the middle of the markets we track, wide enough that the median is orientation rather than valuation. Across 953 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $628,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $430,000 and $850,000, and there is more room between the median and the upper quartile than between the median and the lower one.

Naperville market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Naperville ZIP codes: 60564.

From market read to offer price

A spread this wide means the citywide number cannot price a specific address; the step that matters is the property-level read. 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 Naperville 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: Naperville, IL
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1751622
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 953
Median sold price: $628,000
Median sold $/sqft: $271 (947 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 Naperville over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Naperville 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 17% of the 953 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $630,000.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Naperville?

The median sold price in Naperville over the last 6 months is $628,000, measured across 953 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Naperville last month?

Resideline has tracked 113 closed sales in Naperville in September 2026 so far, out of 953 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 Naperville?

The middle half of Naperville sales over the last six months closed between $430,000 and $850,000, with a median of $628,000.

What is the typical price per square foot in Naperville?

Among qualifying Naperville closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $271, measured across 947 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

What goes wrong when people price Naperville, IL off the median?

They land in the centre of a band that is wider than the middle of the markets we track. With a median of $628,000 and the middle half of sales closing between $430,000 and $850,000 across 953 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, a midpoint estimate is about as likely to be far off as close. Decide from comps which part of the range the subject occupies, and only then compare against the citywide figure.

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