West Bend, WI Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around West Bend, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what West Bend 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: 264
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $330,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $192
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $250,000 and $405,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 264 closed sales in West Bend over the last six months, with a median closing price of $330,000. 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 $250,000 and $405,000. 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 251 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $159 and $229 per square foot.

Figures last updated November 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in West Bend, WI (October 2026)

The median home price in West Bend is $330,000, measured across the 264 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $250,000 and $405,000.

Where West Bend sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in West Bend 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 $250,000 and $405,000. Among the 39 Wisconsin markets with a published band, West Bend's middle-half spread ($250,000 to $405,000) ranks 19th 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 42nd 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 63 West Bend closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 19 days, across 55 West Bend 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 264 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The West Bend angle

West Bend offers enough closed sales to support a real comp search rather than a scavenger hunt. 264 closings is a solid sample, and the $250,000 to $405,000 band is about typical for the markets we track, so the ordinary discipline applies without caveats. The value of a typical band is that $330,000 is a legitimate orientation point. It tells you roughly where the centre of closed activity sits, which is enough to catch an estimate that has gone badly wrong, though not enough to price a specific property. The two halves of that band are close to the same width, so $330,000 sits near the middle of it rather than off to one side. Neither direction holds more of the band's width than the other.

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 West Bend 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: West Bend, WI
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 5585350
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 264
Median sold price: $330,000
Median sold $/sqft: $192 (251 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 West Bend over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the West Bend 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 264 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $343,500.