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2026 Champaign-Urbana Housing Market Forecast: What Buyers & Sellers Should Expect | Max Mitchell

Inventory is finally loosening, rates are stabilizing, and the U of I is fueling steady demand. Here is what is really happening in the Champaign-Urbana market right now — and what to do about it.

2026 Champaign-Urbana Housing Market Forecast: What Buyers & Sellers Should Expect | Max Mitchell

About Max Mitchell

I've been selling homes across Central Illinois since 1975, and I've been named a Champaign County Top 5 REALTOR® year after year. Most of my work is with sellers — people downsizing out of a house they raised a family in, and families settling an estate who have to sell one without the person who lived there. Every sale comes down to the same two things: working out what the house will actually bring, and then working hard to get it. Before anything else I come out and walk the property with you. Not three comparable sales averaged into a number — the property itself: condition, finish, what's sold nearby and why it brought what it did. Then I tell you what yours would sell for and what you'd actually net after everything comes out of it. About half an hour, and there's nothing to sign. When you're ready, my 10-Day Selling System goes to work, built around getting your home in front of the most buyers in the days when attention is highest — because that window is where the price gets set. I'm a REMAX Hall of Fame member and a Dave Ramsey Trusted Agent, and I hold the GRI, CRS and AI Certified designations. I work Champaign, Urbana, Savoy, Mahomet, Monticello, Rantoul, St. Josep

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