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Kenilworth Real Estate Market Statistics
What Kenilworth's housing market is doing now — prices, supply and how quickly houses sell — with what it means if you're buying or selling.
At a glance
The numbers, twelve months to September 2026
Source: MRED via InfoSparks, single-family detached, Kenilworth. Calendar-2025, age and new-construction figures: MRED closed sales.
What the numbers say
Kenilworth this month, in plain terms
Is Kenilworth a seller's market or a buyer's market?
A seller's market. At September's pace it would take about 1.3 months to sell every detached house listed in Kenilworth. Under four months generally favors sellers; above six favors buyers. Since 2021, supply has stayed between about 0.7 and 3.9 months, and fewer houses are coming to market: owners listed 69 detached houses in the last twelve months, against 80 the year before. At the end of September there were only 5 detached houses for sale. Between 2016 and 2019, Kenilworth typically carried between five and twenty months of supply.
Are prices going up?
The twelve-month median for a detached Kenilworth house reached $2,400,000 in September 2026, against $1,913,000 a year earlier, about 25% higher. Treat that change with care: with only about fifty detached sales a year, a handful of large or new sales can move the median a long way. It went above $2 million briefly in early 2023, fell back to about $1.5 million in mid-2024 and has risen since. It describes what sold; it does not mean every Kenilworth house appreciated by 25%. The longer direction is clear: the same measure was $1,240,000 in September 2019.
How fast are houses selling?
Over the twelve months to September, the median Kenilworth house went under contract eight days after listing and sold for 99.4% of its last asking price. It took an average of eleven showings, against ten a year earlier and fifteen at the spring-2024 peak. Our own analysis of 173 Kenilworth houses that went under contract between January 2023 and September 2026 found that about half (49%) did so within eight days, but about three in ten took more than three weeks and about one in eight took more than two months. A quick median does not guarantee a quick sale here.
What does this mean if you're selling?
Low supply helps, but with so few sales, price to the most comparable recent sales near yours, not to the village median. A Kenilworth median mixes very different houses, from older homes on interior streets to new construction and lakefront properties. Timing showed up more clearly here than in larger towns: in our 2023–2026 analysis, houses listed from December through May had stronger observed results than those listed from June through November, and autumn listings had the weakest. See the Kenilworth timing study.
What does this mean if you're buying?
Expect very few choices at any moment: five detached houses at the end of September. Be ready before the right one appears, with financing in place, a clear sense of value, and an eye on Coming Soon listings that show up before they're active. Kenilworth's market is almost entirely detached houses: one condominium or townhouse sold in the last twelve months.
Coming Soon & Private Exclusives
Before homes reach the active market
Not every Kenilworth sale starts as an active listing. Coming Soon homes are marketed before their broader public-market launch, giving buyers an earlier opportunity to learn about a property. 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. Neither guarantees access to a particular home.
This year vs. a typical year
Is 2026 running hotter or cooler than usual?
Each month of 2026 so far, set against the same month’s average for 2023 to 2025. When a bigger share of the available houses goes under contract than usual, buyers are outpacing supply.
1 · How many houses were available, and how many went under contract
Homes available, 2026Went under contract, 2026Typical for that month (2023–2025 average)
2 · Showings per listing: how many showings each house drew that month
2026Typical for that month (2023–2025 average)
Monthly figures
| Month | Homes available, 2026 | Under contract, 2026 | Share under contract, 2026 (typical) | Showings per listing, 2026 (typical) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 9 | 3 | 33% (25%) | 6.6 (5.0) |
| February | 13 | 6 | 46% (32%) | 12.3 (6.7) |
| March | 14 | 4 | 29% (27%) | 11.0 (7.0) |
| April | 20 | 8 | 40% (35%) | 6.1 (4.9) |
| May | 11 | 2 | 18% (25%) | 13.9 (4.7) |
| June | 20 | 4 | 20% (26%) | 5.1 (3.2) |
| July | 20 | 4 | 20% (24%) | 4.4 (4.3) |
| August | 13 | 6 | 46% (22%) | 3.0 (3.1) |
| September | 10 | 3 | 30% (18%) | 7.6 (2.7) |
| October | – | – | – (16%) | – (3.8) |
| November | – | – | – (24%) | – (2.9) |
| December | – | – | – (9%) | – (4.3) |
Through September, 2026 has looked much like a typical year in Kenilworth, with slightly fewer houses coming to market. From January through September, 61 detached houses came to market, against a typical 64 for those months, and 40 went under contract, about the same as a typical year. In six of the nine months, the number that went under contract was a larger share of the houses available that month than is typical; May, June and July ran below. The widest gap came in August, when 6 of 13 available houses went under contract (46%, against a typical 22%). Showings per listing were above typical in every month but August, most of all in February, May and September. Kenilworth's monthly numbers are very small, two to eight contracts in 2026, so a single sale can swing a month; read the pattern across the year rather than any one month.
Kenilworth, detached houses. 2026 figures through September 2026; typical = the 2023, 2024 and 2025 average for the same month (December showings per listing averages 2023 and 2024 only, because InfoSparks has no December 2025 figure). Homes available: houses for sale at the end of the previous month plus new listings that month. Under contract: pending sales by contract month. Showings per listing: showing data from ShowingTime, counting only showings scheduled through ShowingTime. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, read 5 Oct 2026. Updated monthly.
Live charts
The trend, back to 2016
These charts update automatically from MRED, so they may show a newer month than the text above.
Median sale price
Kenilworth, single-family detached. Each point is 12 months of activity. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, updated automatically. This chart starts in 2016.
The median stayed between about $965,000 and $1.48 million from 2016 through 2020. It passed $1.5 million in 2021, went above $2 million briefly in early 2023, fell back to about $1.5 million in mid-2024 and was $2.4 million in September 2026. With about fifty sales a year, the line moves in steps.
Months supply of homes for sale
Kenilworth, single-family detached. Each point is one month of activity. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, updated automatically. This chart starts in 2016.
How long it would take to sell everything listed at the current pace. Kenilworth carried about five to twenty months of supply from 2016 to 2019 and has stayed under four months since 2021.
Average showings to contract
Kenilworth, single-family detached. Each point is 12 months of activity. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, updated automatically. This chart starts in 2016.
Fewer showings per contract means buyers decide faster. Kenilworth now runs at about eleven, against fifteen at the spring-2024 peak.
New listings
Kenilworth, single-family detached. Each point is one month. Source: MRED via InfoSparks, updated automatically. This chart starts in 2016.
How many houses come to market each month, usually under a dozen. The last twelve months brought 69 new listings, down from 80.
Calendar 2025
Where the sales happened
Every closed home sale in Kenilworth in 2025. Two vacant-land sales excluded. Refreshed each January.
56 sales in all: 55 detached houses (median $2,070,000) and one condominium or townhouse. Detached sales spread from under $1 million to above $5 million, with the most between $2 million and $3 million. Source: MRED closed sales, January–December 2025.
Age of homes sold
When the houses that sold were built
Detached houses sold in the twelve months to September 2026, by the decade they were built.
About two in three of the houses that sold were built before 1940 (34 of 52), and the 1920s alone account for 14, more than any other decade. No house built in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s sold in these twelve months, and only two from the 1990s. Six were built in 2000 or later. Year built describes when a house was first constructed; it says little about its condition, renovations, additions or how it compares with any other house.
Year built as recorded in the MLS listing. 1 detached sale listed the year as unknown and is excluded. A house rebuilt on an older lot shows its new construction year. Source: MRED closed sales, October 2025–September 2026. Refreshed monthly.
New construction
What sold as new construction in Kenilworth
Newly built detached houses that closed in the twelve months to September 2026, treated as their own segment of the market.
Two of the detached houses that sold in Kenilworth in the twelve months to September 2026 were new construction. With only two sales, there is no meaningful median price to report, so none is shown.
New construction means a detached house marked as new construction in the MLS listing. Source: MRED closed sales, October 2025–September 2026. Refreshed monthly.
Method
How these numbers are calculated
- Source. MRED, the multiple listing service for northern Illinois, via its InfoSparks reporting tool.
- What's counted. Single-family detached houses in Kenilworth unless a figure says otherwise. The calendar-2025 price bands include the year's one condominium or townhouse sale; Kenilworth has too few attached sales for a separate section.
- Twelve-month figures. Price and showings use a rolling twelve months, so a few unusual sales in one month don't swing the picture.
- Small numbers. Kenilworth has about fifty sales a year, so figures can move more from month to month than in larger towns. We describe patterns over several months rather than single months.
- Year built. The age-of-homes section uses the year built recorded in each MLS listing; listings marked unknown are left out.
- Median first. The median is the middle sale. We show it ahead of the average, which a few very large sales can pull up.
- New construction. A detached house marked as new construction in the MLS listing. Shown as its own segment, with a median only when there are at least five sales, and never compared with older homes.
- This year vs. a typical year. Each month of the current year is compared with the average of the same month in the last three full years. “Homes available” is the houses for sale at the end of the previous month plus that month’s new listings, so each house counts once whether it went under contract, stayed on the market or was withdrawn.
- Updates. The text and figures are refreshed monthly. The live charts update themselves and may show a newer month than the text.
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