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Glencoe Real Estate
Storybook living on Lake Michigan, twenty-one miles from the Loop. Here's what it costs, how it commutes, and where the market actually landed in 2025.
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Built on the bluffs of Lake Michigan, Glencoe packs an unusual amount into 3.72 square miles: a public elementary district organized by grade, a walkable downtown and a beach with a boathouse. Glencoe is also notable for its Frank Lloyd Wright architecture. Thirteen Wright-designed structures survive in the village, including the Glasner House and the Ravine Bluffs collection.
It is a small market — around 120 homes change hands in a typical year — so short periods can swing noticeably. The snapshot below is the full 2025 closed record, not a sample.
2020 Census and 2020–2024 American Community Survey (5-year estimates). Average household income is the ACS mean.
The market in brief
What Glencoe housing costs
Every closed sale recorded in Glencoe in 2025: detached houses, townhouses and condominiums. Vacant land excluded.
Source: MRED closed sales, January–December 2025. Compiled by Lisa Finks; current as of the 2025 year end.
With roughly a hundred and twenty sales a year, Glencoe figures can move noticeably from one period to the next. The typical detached house sold in 2025 was built around 1960, and about a quarter were built in 2000 or later. For this month's prices, supply, showing activity and the age of homes selling now, and what they mean for buyers and sellers, use the market statistics page.
Glencoe market statistics
Current price, inventory, months of supply and showings, with live MRED charts and a plain-language read of what changed.
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423 Glencoe houses that went under contract from 2023 to 2026, sorted by the month they were listed.
Read the StudySchools
District 35, then New Trier
Glencoe's public elementary schools, District 35, are organized by grade rather than by neighborhood, so District 35 students attend the same three buildings in turn: South School (K–2), West School (grades 3–4) and Central School (grades 5–8). Central School enrolls approximately 600 students.
District 35 students go on to New Trier High School (District 203). Current outcomes are in New Trier's Profile of the Class of 2025, and District 35's elementary years are covered by its Illinois Report Card.
Private early-education options in the village include JCC Chicago Early Childhood at Am Shalom and Glencoe Junior Kindergarten, which offers half- and full-day programs. Nearby independent-school options include Baker Demonstration School in Wilmette, North Shore Country Day in Winnetka and The School of Saints Faith, Hope & Charity, also in Winnetka.
For more detail: preschools in Glencoe.
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Glencoe's grade-based structure keeps its own elementary path simple, but several neighboring North Shore districts assign elementary schools by attendance boundary, and boundaries can change. Our Search by Elementary School tool helps across the North Shore; confirm current attendance with the district before you buy.
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Getting to the city
The Glencoe commute
The Glencoe Metra station sits just off Green Bay Road with a large commuter lot, and a good share of the village lives within walking distance of it. Depending on the train, the scheduled ride from Glencoe to Ogilvie Transportation Center in downtown Chicago is roughly 41–48 minutes, stopping through each North Shore town along the way. Weekend and monthly passes are available.
Pace bus service runs to the city and to neighboring communities; a lot of high-school students use it to get to school. Driving is roughly 21 miles each way. In warm weather the Green Bay Trail runs south along the lakefront and connects into Chicago's bike network.
Outside
Beach, golf, gardens and lagoons
Glencoe fits more than two dozen parks into under four square miles, and backs onto two prominent regional outdoor destinations.
Glencoe Beach and the Glencoe Boating Beach handle swimming, sailing and boat storage. Glencoe Golf Club is an 18-hole public course on 126 acres, run by the Village with the Forest Preserves of Cook County, with instruction, youth programs and an indoor practice facility. Lake Shore Country Club and Skokie Country Club are the private options.
The Chicago Botanic Garden — 27 gardens across 385 acres — is in Glencoe, as are the Skokie Lagoons, where you'll find kayak rentals, fishing and hiking trails.
In winter, the Weinberg Family Recreation Center on Randolph Street runs two lighted outdoor refrigerated rinks for figure and hockey skating. The sledding hill at Watts Park is a long-standing local favorite, and once the snow goes the park turns back into tennis courts, soccer fields and a disc golf course.
Arts
A theater company in the middle of downtown
Writers Theatre anchors downtown Glencoe with a full season of plays and musicals, plus classes and camps for kids in its smaller Gillian Theatre. The Park District's Takiff Center runs theater, dance, music and art programming with public performances.
Nearby: the Music Institute of Chicago has campuses in Winnetka and Evanston; Midwest Young Artists Conservatory in Highwood auditions for its orchestras; the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts is a short drive into Skokie. And Ravinia is one stop up the line — close enough that Glencoe residents can take the train, carry in a picnic, and be home the same night.
Downtown
Where to eat in Glencoe
Downtown Glencoe is small enough to walk end to end, and it has turned over meaningfully in the last two years. Guildhall on Vernon Avenue remains the anchor — upscale contemporary American, lunch through dinner with weekend brunch. Mensch's Deli opened on Park Avenue in 2025 in the space Meg's Cafe held for four decades, alongside its sister restaurant Picnic.
For a quick meal, Little Red Hen does fried chicken on Vernon, Shanghai Garden is next door, and Foodstuffs on Park Avenue is the gourmet grocery locals use for prepared food as much as groceries. Hometown Coffee & Juice sits at the corner of Vernon and Park.
Tools and resources
Built for how people actually buy here
Six things worth using before you write an offer in Glencoe.
Before it reaches the market
Coming Soon listings are marketed before their broader public-market launch, giving buyers an earlier opportunity to learn about a home. Buyers can express interest and make offers during this stage; whether a seller considers an offer before the broader launch is up to the seller. Compass Private Exclusives are not publicly marketed while they are offered as Private Exclusives; some later come to the open market. The two are different, and neither guarantees access to a particular home.
Search Coming Soon → How Private Exclusives work →Search by elementary school
If school attendance matters in a wider North Shore search, start with homes listed by elementary school, then confirm the current boundary with the district.
Search Now →Walk to train
Homes within genuine walking distance of the Glencoe Metra station, not "close-ish by car."
View Homes →New construction guide
Finishes, builder reputations and which locations hold value on the North Shore.
View the Report →Market Ready Concierge
Compass's current program for financing pre-sale preparation, through Notable. Fees and interest apply and approval isn't guaranteed. We'll walk you through whether it fits.
The Insider's Guide
Our own guide to the North Shore, Glencoe included — schools, commutes, taxes and what each town is actually like to live in. Free.
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The 6-Point Strategic Buyer Program
What we actually do between "I like this house" and "here are the keys."
Pre-market access
We monitor multiple sources — including our professional networks, Top Agent Network, Compass Coming Soon and other permitted pre-market opportunities — so your search is not limited to active public listings.
Comprehensive value analysis
A detailed read on both comparable sales and current market conditions, so you know what a house is worth before you name a number.
Strategic negotiating
Lisa is a licensed attorney and former litigator. In multiple-offer situations, we focus on both price and the terms that can affect a seller's decision.
Extra intel
We vet every home and its location for flooding history, walkability, commuting and anything else that could affect your enjoyment or your resale. Nothing is ever guaranteed, but you'll go in informed.
Innovative techniques
When nothing on the market fits, we go looking. Handwritten notes to owners in the streets and buildings you want, and geographically targeted advertising to reach homeowners who are thinking about selling but haven't listed.
Local expertise
We live on the North Shore, drive these streets daily, sit on community boards and have children in local activities. That produces the kind of anecdotal knowledge that never makes it into a listing sheet — and it means we can preview homes quickly for busy or out-of-town buyers.
Thinking of selling
Four steps, in order
- Start with the online estimate — it shows recent closed prices for homes near yours.
- Then get a real price analysis — a strategic, complimentary read on your specific house, which is a different thing from an algorithm's guess.
- Look at whether Market Ready Concierge or a private launch helps — financing for pre-sale work (fees and interest apply), or testing the market before the clock starts.
- Then go to market — photography, staging and a launch timed to the week that suits your house, not the calendar.
New on the market
New Glencoe listings added in the past 7 days
Residential listings added in the past 7 days · $100K–$20M · with photos
Listings courtesy of Midwest Real Estate Data, LLC (MRED) as distributed by MLS GRID. IDX information is provided exclusively for consumers' personal, non-commercial use and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Some listings have been excluded from this website. Full disclosures
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