Over the three months ending in June 2026, the median sale price of a home in Westmont climbed 1.5 percent year over year to $430,000, according to Redfin. Over that same window, the median price per square foot fell 2.7 percent, to $253. Those two numbers describe the same market in the same months, and both can hold at once when the homes changing hands differ from the ones that sold a year earlier. A rising median price with a falling per-square-foot price points to a change in the mix of what's selling, not just the price of any one house.
Check a second source and the picture gets stranger, not clearer. Zillow's Home Value Index put the average Westmont home value at $417,239 as of July 31, 2026, up 4.0 percent for the year, with homes going to pending in around 11 days. Movoto's tracking showed a median list price of $332,500 in August 2026, nearly $100,000 below Redfin's sold figure from two months earlier.
| Source | What it measures | Figure | Time window |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redfin | Median sale price | $430,000 | 3 months ending June 2026 |
| Zillow Home Value Index | Estimated typical home value | $417,239 | As of July 31, 2026 |
| Movoto | Median list price | $332,500 | August 2026 |
Some of that gap is methodology. A sold-price median, a list-price median, and an algorithmic value estimate are three different instruments measuring three different things, and they will never line up perfectly even in a stable market. But methodology alone doesn't explain a market where the total price of a typical house goes up while the price of each square foot inside it goes down. That takes a change in what's actually for sale. In Westmont, that change has a start date.
What Changed on July 9
On July 9, 2026, the Westmont Village Board approved a package of rezonings covering roughly 150 parcels in the downtown, creating three new districts: B-1(A) Downtown Core, B-1 Downtown Edge, and R-7 Downtown Residential. The same meeting authorized a consultant agreement with Halsey O'Livine Associates to prepare a downtown streetscape master plan and parking study to support the newly rezoned areas.
Community Development Director Joe Hennerfeind framed the reasoning behind the split earlier in the process, saying the new districts would "provide focus on density near the train station, as well as accommodate the varying residential housing types along Burlington Avenue and Quincy Street." The B-1(A) core allows higher-intensity, storefront-style mixed use up to five stories. The B-1 edge is more transitional, capped at three stories. The R-7 residential district is the one that matters most for anyone comparing home prices, because it is built specifically to change what gets built on a residential lot near downtown.
Why Row Homes Change the Math
The R-7 district traces back to Westmont's 2013 Comprehensive Plan, which found that single-family attached homes, meaning row homes, were an appropriate use for most of the properties running along the railroad. The zoning finally caught up to that plan this year. Under R-7, front and street side setbacks drop to a minimum of 10 feet, compared with 25 feet under the older R-5 standard, and the code now separates two building types: row buildings, which are attached houses, and general buildings, which are multi-unit structures. Existing detached single-family homes are allowed to remain exactly as they are. Nothing in the new zoning forces a current homeowner to change anything. It only changes what a builder can do the next time one of those parcels turns over.
The village has a working example of the building type it's now trying to make easier to permit. Quincy Station, an existing mixed-use building along the BNSF line, required what the village's own zoning materials describe as a lengthy list of individual approvals to get built under the old rules. The new B-1(A) district is designed to let that kind of project move through the process without needing a custom variance every time.
The Proof This Was Already Happening
Zoning changes describe what's possible. They don't guarantee it happens. Westmont already has a concrete example of the appetite for this kind of redevelopment, and it predates the July rezoning entirely.
On February 19, 2026, the Village Board approved zoning changes, variances, and a site plan for a 12-unit, three-story building at 306 North Cass Avenue, working under the old R-4 designation rather than the new R-7. Developer Michael Gatto told the board the project required lot consolidation because the parcel was oddly shaped and included three small parcels at the rear. Director Hennerfeind and staff confirmed the plan met R-4 height, parking, and landscaping requirements as conditioned, and the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval after two separate hearings. Neighbors raised concerns about height, density, and parking, and the board responded by adding a fencing and landscaping requirement rather than denying the project.
That's the pattern buyers and investors should watch for going forward. Getting a multi-parcel infill project approved under the old rules took lot consolidation, multiple hearings, and a negotiated concession to neighbors. The new R-7 district exists specifically to make that same outcome achievable without the custom fight.
The village made a similar bet with infrastructure. On East Burlington Avenue between Cass and Linden, the village moved the road's "S-curve" alignment roughly 150 feet east, a project that began construction on April 13, 2026 and was funded through the fiscal year 2026 budget. The stated purpose wasn't traffic flow. It was to create a larger, assembled parcel with better redevelopment potential. Mayor Steve Nero called it "a tremendous opportunity for Westmont" when the funding was approved. A village doesn't spend infrastructure money to reshape a road's geometry around a future building unless it expects that building to get proposed.
What This Means If You're Pricing a Home Here
Westmont's overall housing stock is old by suburban standards. Regional planning data covering the village puts the median year built at 1976, with only a small share of homes constructed in 2000 or later. For most of the last two decades, a Westmont sale meant a postwar cape, ranch, or small two-story on a modest lot, sometimes updated, sometimes not.
That's the housing stock the Redfin, Zillow, and Movoto medians were built on for years, and it's the housing stock that produces high per-square-foot prices on smaller homes, because a fully renovated 1,200-square-foot cape commands a premium for every foot of finished, move-in-ready space. Infill and teardown construction works on different math. A new build on an assembled lot, or eventually a row home under R-7, adds more total square footage at a total price that's higher in dollars but often lower per square foot, because volume construction on a larger footprint spreads cost more efficiently than a full gut renovation of a small existing structure.
Blend a handful of those larger, higher-total-price, lower-per-foot homes into the same three-month sold sample as the older housing stock, and you get exactly what Redfin showed for the period ending June 2026: the median price climbs because the mix now includes bigger, pricier homes, while the price per square foot falls because those bigger homes cost less per foot than the small renovated houses they're being compared against. The village-wide median isn't wrong. It's describing two different products as if they were one.
For anyone comparing a listing to "the Westmont median," the useful question isn't whether the price is above or below that number. It's which side of the split the property sits on. A postwar cape two blocks from Cass Avenue and a new build inside the rezoned core aren't really competing in the same market anymore, even though both show up under the same village name. The corridors worth watching most closely are Cass Avenue between Richmond and Norfolk Streets, and the properties within a block of Cass along Burlington Avenue and Quincy Street, since those are the areas the village specifically targeted for the new downtown districts.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the July 2026 rezoning force existing homeowners to change anything? No. The R-7 district explicitly allows existing detached single-family homes to remain as they are. The new rules apply to what can be built when a property is redeveloped, not to homes that already exist.
Is the new zoning already reflected in the price data referenced here? Only partially. The rezoning was approved July 9, 2026, and the pricing data above covers months at or before that vote. The fuller effect on Westmont's sold comps, as more parcels move through the new R-7 and B-1(A) process, is still ahead rather than already priced in.
If you're trying to figure out what a specific Westmont address is actually worth against this backdrop, rather than what a village-wide average says, McCurry Homes can walk the comps block by block with you.