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

If you invest in or around Wausau, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Wausau 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: 308
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $235,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $143
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $170,000 and $325,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 308 closed sales in Wausau over the last six months, with a median closing price of $235,000. 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 $170,000 and $325,000. 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. 91% of the Wausau 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 277 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $115 and $168 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Wausau, WI (October 2026)

The median home price in Wausau is $235,000, measured across the 308 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $170,000 and $325,000.

Where Wausau sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Wausau 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 $170,000 and $325,000. Among the 39 Wisconsin markets with a published band, Wausau's middle-half spread ($170,000 to $325,000) ranks 36th from the narrowest. 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 53 days, across 36 Wausau 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 308 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold the dates it needs.

The Wausau angle

Wausau's headline number hides a fair amount of ground. A band that size means two properly priced Wausau homes can close a long way apart without either being mispriced, and it means an estimate that simply repeats the median has not really engaged with the market. Start from closed sales that match the subject, place the result inside or outside the band deliberately, and be able to say which features of the property justify where it landed.

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 Wausau 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: Wausau, WI
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 5584475
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 308
Median sold price: $235,000
Median sold $/sqft: $143 (277 qualifying)
Property mix: 91% 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 Wausau over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Wausau 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 20% of the 308 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $256,500.