Strength 4 / 5
99.0%
Bloomington sale-to-list dropped below 1.0 — 99.0%
Typical closed deal now prints below list; buyers have real negotiating room for the first time in this market's recent cycle.
Reports › Weekly · 2026-07-12
Illinois real estate — week of Jul 10, 2026
All 5 of Illinois's major metros showed positive year-over-year median sale-price reads this week. Range this week: peoria at +1.6% YoY to rockford at +12.1%.
Headline numbers
Bloomington
$275K +9.6%
Chicago
$420K +6.5%
Peoria
$152K +1.6%
Rockford
$172K +12.1%
Springfield
$188K +3.6%
This week's signals
Strength 4 / 5
$581K
Oak Park avg sale price crossed $500K — now $581K
Crossing $500K is a narrative hinge — buyer shopping-by-price bands and seller list-price anchoring both reset when a market moves past a round number.
Strength 4 / 5
$135K
Peoria median price -8.5% YoY
Price-per-sqft also -5.6% YoY across 151 closed sales.
Strength 4 / 5
14 days
Rockford homes taking 14 days to sell — +133.3% vs. a year ago
Homes are sitting materially longer than they were this time last year — the first hard sign of softening demand or over-priced inventory.
Source divergence
ZIP-level reconciliation will appear here once curated ZIP coverage lands for Illinois.
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