09/15/2026
The typical house in DuPage sold for exactly its asking price last month. Not over it. Exactly it.
Sale-to-list ratio: 100.0%. A year ago it was 100.3%. That sounds like a rounding error and it isn't: it's the difference between a market where you write "above" and ask to compete and one where you don't.
The rest of the August numbers say the same thing from three directions. 40.3% of homes sold above list, down 4.2 points in a year. Median days on market: 51, up four. Months of supply: 2.5, up from 2.1.
Here's what I'm not going to tell you: that this is a buyer's market. It isn't. Two and a half months of supply is still tight by any historical measure, and prices are still up 4.8% year over year — roughly $20,500 on the median house — while national prices rose 2%.
What I am telling you is that the premium is gone. For about eighteen months the price of entry in the western suburbs was writing over ask and waiving things you shouldn't waive. That's no longer the price of entry. That's not a crash. It's negotiating room, and it's the first real negotiating room this market has handed anybody in a while.
One thing to watch, because it cuts the other way: pending sales in DuPage were up 16.6% last month while national pending sales fell 1.3%. Demand here is not soft. Whatever this window is, it isn't guaranteed to stay open.
Figures: Redfin, DuPage County, August 2026. Rate references: Freddie Mac PMMS, Sep 10, 2026.
