Downers Grove Market Report · IL Home Values
Downers Grove, IL holds about 21,527 homes, 75% of them owner-occupied, with a median year built of 1974. Downers Grove includes established traditional homes, custom rebuilds, and attached residences. Buyers balance pricing against neighboring communities such as Lisle and Naperville. Housing inventory features wooded lots and central DuPage positioning.
The Downers Grove median sold price stands at $540,500 as of May 2026, +6% year over year. The twelve-month peak was $580,000 in January 2026. 625 homes closed over the period, averaging 103.3% of list price most recently, with 36 days on market.
Read the trend, not the single month. Downers Grove pricing follows preparation and seasonality more than it follows rate news, and the spread between prepared and unprepared homes is wider than the median suggests. A street-level read is a different number from the one above, and the table below is where it starts.
Downers Grove by the month
12 months of Downers Grove closings, June 2025 through May 2026. Each panel is one series; the table carries every figure.
The properties shown here are transactions I personally represented, compiled from my public agent record. This site is not an MLS IDX feed and does not show the full active market; ask me and I will pull everything that fits.
Source: Redfin (through May 2026) · U.S. Census ACS (2024)
Twelve months of Downers Grove closings
| Month | Median sold | Closed | New listings | Avg DOM | List-to-sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | $510,000 | 65 | 70 | 46 | 101.4% |
| July 2025 | $519,000 | 70 | 65 | 47 | 100.4% |
| August 2025 | $480,000 | 53 | 61 | 43 | 102.6% |
| September 2025 | $475,000 | 60 | 62 | 50 | 100.5% |
| October 2025 | $437,000 | 59 | 56 | 42 | 99.7% |
| November 2025 | $410,000 | 38 | 40 | 49 | 99.7% |
| December 2025 | $465,000 | 43 | 24 | 50 | 99% |
| January 2026 | $580,000 | 31 | 49 | 64 | 99.5% |
| February 2026 | $535,167 | 28 | 53 | 60 | 100.9% |
| March 2026 | $472,500 | 70 | 58 | 53 | 101% |
| April 2026 | $537,500 | 54 | 91 | 50 | 100.8% |
| May 2026 | $540,500 | 54 | 74 | 36 | 103.3% |
The properties shown here are transactions I personally represented, compiled from my public agent record. This site is not an MLS IDX feed and does not show the full active market; ask me and I will pull everything that fits.
Source: Redfin (through May 2026) · U.S. Census ACS (2024)
What the Downers Grove numbers say
The median Downers Grove home sold for $540,500 in May 2026, up 6% from $510,000 in June 2025. The twelve-month high was $580,000 in January 2026.
Homes averaged 36 days on the market and closed at 103.3% of list price in May 2026. That is 10 days faster than June 2025.
At the pace of the last three months, the 149 homes on the market in Downers Grove represent about 2.5 months of supply: less than four months, which is the range where prepared homes tend to clear quickly and buyers have little room to wait.
Buyers should expect to move on a home in days rather than weeks, and to have the comparable sales in hand before writing. Sellers are getting close to their asking price, which usually means the price was set against recent comparable sales rather than against what neighbors are asking.
Source: Redfin (through May 2026) · U.S. Census ACS (2024)
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