A Wilmette single-family home that sold for $4.9 million claimed the number-one spot among the 10 priciest residential sales recorded in DuPage and Cook counties for the week of June 8. The latest batch of closings sticks to a familiar script: North Shore estates and downtown lakefront condos are still where buyers shell out the biggest checks.
The weekly rundown logged 1,037 residential transactions and pegged the average sale price at roughly $505,774, or about $293 per square foot. The rankings are based on titles recorded during the week of June 8, even if the deals actually closed earlier, according to Shaw Local.
Top Sellers: Custom Wilmette Stunner And A Lincoln Park Showpiece
Leading the pack was 325 Central Avenue in Wilmette, a roughly 6,093-square-foot custom home that closed at about $4.9 million, translating to nearly $804 per square foot, per Redfin. Not far behind on the trophy list was a six-bedroom house at 1720 North Mohawk Street in Lincoln Park that changed hands for roughly $3.97 million, with about 5,900 square feet and a price near $673 per square foot, per Redfin.
North Shore Estates And Other Big Suburban Sales
North Shore addresses filled much of the remaining leaderboard. A newer build at 1180 Oak Ridge Drive in Glencoe closed around $3.4 million, per Zillow. Winnetka also showed up in force: 334 Woodland Avenue sold for about $3,005,000, according to local MLS data on MyStateMLS, and nearby 560 Elm Street closed near $2.775 million, per Realtor.com.
Lakefront Condos Still Command Lofty Price-Per-Foot
Downtown condos more than held their own among the week’s biggest deals. A corner unit at Cirrus, 211 North Harbor Drive unit 3702, sold for about $2.45 million, according to Homes.com. At 451 East Grand Avenue, a 2,400-square-foot unit in Apt. 4503 closed in late May for roughly $2,187,500, which works out to about $911 per square foot, per Trulia. Those kinds of numbers help keep high-end price-per-square-foot metrics well above the countywide average.
Put together, the week’s top closings highlight a familiar reality: luxury demand is still clustered on the North Shore and in select downtown towers, where location and building type can push prices to eye-popping levels even as the broader market sits at a far lower median. For buyers and sellers trying to read the tea leaves, the message has not changed much. In this market, where a home sits matters just as much as the size of the offer.
