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August 21, 2026· Updated October 3, 2026
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Racine, WI Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in Racine: a median closing price of $221,250 across 486 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.

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Racine, WI Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Racine, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Racine 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: 486
  • •Median sold price, last 6 months: $221,250
  • •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $161
  • •Middle half of sales closed between: $165,000 and $272,500

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 486 closed sales in Racine over the last six months, with a median closing price of $221,250. 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 $272,500. 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. 85% of the Racine 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 451 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $119 and $202 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Racine, WI (October 2026)

The median home price in Racine is $221,250, measured across the 486 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $165,000 and $272,500.

Where Racine sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Racine
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $165k to $273k
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$79k to $117k: 38 sales$79k$117k to $155k: 45 sales$155k to $193k: 60 sales$155k$193k to $232k: 104 sales104sales$232k to $270k: 90 sales$232k$270k to $308k: 58 sales$308k to $347k: 36 sales$308k$347k to $385k: 6 salesMedian $221k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Racine 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 $165,000 and $272,500. Among the 38 Wisconsin markets with a published band, Racine's middle-half spread ($165,000 to $272,500) ranks 18th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

Median sold price per square foot
Racine 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: $170 per square foot across 67 sales$170MayJun 2026: $166 per square foot across 75 sales$166JunJul 2026: $151 per square foot across 88 sales$151JulAug 2026: $164 per square foot across 85 sales$164AugSep 2026: $163 per square foot across 49 sales$163Sep

How long a sale takes here

  • •Listed to under contract: a median of 14 days, across 153 Racine closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • •Contract to closing: a median of 27 days, across 119 Racine 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 486 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

Racine prices by property type

Among the Racine closings with usable living area over the last six months, single-family houses closed at a median of $166 per square foot (390 sales) and multi-family homes at $111 (42 sales).

The Racine angle

Volume is not the constraint in Racine. Whatever difficulty a valuation here presents, it is not a shortage of closed sales. That means precision is affordable. A comp set built under those constraints describes the subject, while $221,250 by construction pools the whole city into a single figure. The band leans upward. The band is not symmetric around $221,250: the stretch down to $165,000 is longer than the stretch up to $272,500. When a result lands high, confirm the comps supporting it genuinely resemble the subject.

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 Racine 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: Racine, WI
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 5566000
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 486
Median sold price: $221,250
Median sold $/sqft: $161 (451 qualifying)
Property mix: 85% 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 Racine over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Racine 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 19% of the 486 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $232,000.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Racine?

The median sold price in Racine over the last 6 months is $221,250, measured across 486 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Racine last month?

Resideline has tracked 52 closed sales in Racine in September 2026 so far, out of 486 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 Racine?

The middle half of Racine sales over the last six months closed between $165,000 and $272,500, with a median of $221,250.

What is the typical price per square foot in Racine?

Among qualifying Racine closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $161, measured across 451 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

Is a shortage of comparable sales ever the problem in Racine?

Rarely. The $165,000 to $272,500 band is about typical in width, so the precision comes from the filters.

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