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August 21, 2026· Updated August 22, 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 $215,000 across 490 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 August 2026.

The snapshot

  • Closings tracked, last 6 months: 490
  • Median sold price, last 6 months: $215,000
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $153
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $155,000 and $260,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 490 closed sales in Racine over the last six months, with a median closing price of $215,000. 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 $155,000 and $260,000. 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. 84% 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 460 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $106 and $198 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Racine, WI (August 2026)

The median home price in Racine is $215,000, measured across the 490 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $155,000 and $260,000.

Where Racine sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Racine
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $155k to $260k
$68k to $105k: 37 sales$68k$105k to $142k: 47 sales$142k to $179k: 56 sales$142k$179k to $217k: 91 sales$217k to $254k: 97 sales97sales$217k$254k to $291k: 66 sales$291k to $328k: 35 sales$291k$328k to $365k: 16 salesMedian $215k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Racine over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $155,000 and $260,000. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

Median sold price per square foot
Racine monthly medians over the last six months, among qualifying closings with usable living area
Feb 2026: $128 per square foot across 22 sales$128Feb 2026Mar 2026: $153 per square foot across 81 sales$153Mar 2026Apr 2026: $143 per square foot across 96 sales$143Apr 2026May 2026: $168 per square foot across 69 sales$168May 2026Jun 2026: $164 per square foot across 78 sales$164Jun 2026Jul 2026: $151 per square foot across 88 sales$151Jul 2026Aug 2026: $153 per square foot across 26 sales$153Aug 2026

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 9 days, across 148 Racine closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 29 days, across 114 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 490 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

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. Hold the property type fixed, impose a size window narrow enough to be meaningful, keep the radius contained, and there are still comparable sales left to reason from. A comp set built under those constraints describes the subject, while $215,000 by construction pools the whole city into a single figure. The band leans upward. 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 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 12,508+ graded closings. 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.

Cite this

Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Racine, WI
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 490
Median sold price: $215,000
Median sold $/sqft: $153 (460 qualifying)
Property mix: 84% houses
https://resideline.com/blog/racine-wi-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 Racine over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track inside the 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 21% of the 490 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $230,000.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Racine?

The median sold price in Racine over the last 6 months is $215,000, measured across 490 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Racine last month?

Resideline tracked 99 closed sales in Racine in July 2026, out of 490 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 Racine?

The middle half of Racine sales over the last six months closed between $155,000 and $260,000, with a median of $215,000.

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 $153, measured across 460 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 $155,000 to $260,000 band is about typical in width, so the precision comes from the filters.

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