A five-bedroom house in central Wilmette just sold for $4.9 million, the highest residential price in Cook and DuPage counties for the week of Monday, June 8.

The 6,093-square-foot home at 325 Central Avenue, built in 2007, closed at $804 per square foot, according to Shaw Local data published June 21. The price trails only a handful of Wilmette sales in recent years, including the $6 million that former AbbVie CFO Bill Chase's home at 819 Chestnut Avenue fetched in October 2025.

Buyer and seller names have not been confirmed through Cook County deed records.

The sale lands in a Wilmette market running hot. Home values in the village averaged $994,311 as of May 31, up 11.3% year over year, with properties going to pending in about six days, per Zillow data. Sales volume jumped more than 20% in 2025 compared with the prior year, according to a Real Deal analysis of preliminary year-end records. Wilmette was one of only nine Chicago-area communities to post double-digit gains in a metro market that grew just 0.2% overall in transaction volume.

Lisa Finks, a Compass agent who works across several North Shore towns, has described Wilmette as more attainable than neighboring New Trier Township communities. Median prices sit just under $1.3 million in Wilmette, compared with about $1.7 million in Glencoe and more than $2 million in Winnetka.

That relative affordability hasn't stopped the luxury end from climbing. Jena Radnay of @properties Christie's International Real Estate, who handled seven of the top 10 Chicago-area sales in 2025, pointed to the region's climate stability as a draw for high-end buyers.

"The Midwest is fortunately an area that doesn't have catastrophic events happen from a weather perspective," Radnay said. "Things on the lake just keep increasing in value."

Cook County second-installment property tax bills, meanwhile, will miss the August 1 deadline again this year, with the New Trier Township appeal window having closed June 22.