Villa Park Real Estate, by the Numbers: 28 Years of Sales Data

Villa Park is two square miles, roughly 2,000 homes, and no apartments. In a city that small, a few dozen sales a year is the whole market, and the agents who handle them know every street. We pulled every closed residential sale the MLS has on record for Villa Park, from August 1998 through October 2026, to show buyers what the market has actually done over 28 years, and where Thomas Real Estate Group fits in it.

The Villa Park market in one paragraph

Between August 1998 and October 15, 2026, the MLS recorded 1,950 closed sales in Villa Park, a combined $2.66 billion. That is an average of about 70 sales a year, with a high of 110 in 1999 and a low of 39 in 2007. The median sale price rose from $529,000 in 1998 to $2.86 million in 2026, and the median price per square foot from $182 to $708. The market dipped after 2007 and again briefly in 2023, and otherwise climbed. Over the last twelve months the median sale was $2.71 million across 56 transactions.

What a buyer should take from the price history

• Villa Park holds value through downturns. From the 2007 peak ($1.35M median) to the 2011 trough ($895K), prices fell about a third, then recovered fully by 2020 and has roughly doubled since. Homes bought at the 2007 peak and held are now worth about twice what they cost.
• Inventory is thin. With 40 to 60 sales in a typical recent year, a buyer waiting for a specific street or lot size can wait a long time. 2023 through 2025 averaged 56 sales a year, and 2026 is tracking lower still.
• The market has moved decisively upmarket. Sales above $2 million were 328 of the 1,950 total; 69 of them cleared $3 million. The city record is $5.86 million, set in 2024.
• Price per square foot tells you about the land. At $708 per foot on a median of roughly 4,000 square feet, you are paying for the half-acre lot as much as the house. Remodeled homes on flat, usable lots trade at a clear premium.

Our share of Villa Park, by the numbers

Every figure below is computed from the same MLS dataset and counts a transaction once if Thomas Real Estate Group represented the seller, the buyer, or both.

• 389 of 1,950 Villa Park sales since 1998 involved our team. That is one in five.
• $578 million of the $2.66 billion in Villa Park sales volume, or 21.7 percent.
• The most active agent or team in Villa Park in 24 of the last 29 years, and first or second in 28 of 29. Our team has handled nearly twice as many Villa Park transactions as the next most active agent (387 to 209).
• Represented both buyer and seller in 117 transactions. That usually means a buyer we were already working with was matched to a home before or as it hit the market.
• Sales on 124 of Villa Park’s 211 streets, covering 317 distinct homes. Fifty-six of those homes we have sold more than once, which is a decent proxy for how often a past client calls back.
• Share grows at the top of the market. We handled 29 percent of all $2M to $3M sales and 23 percent of $3M+ sales, including the second-highest sale in city history, 19092 Mesa Drive at $3.85 million.
• 2026 is our strongest year in over a decade: 13 of the 42 sales recorded so far, 31 percent.

Why this matters when you are buying

Experience in a specific city is not a vanity statistic. In Villa Park it translates into three practical advantages for a buyer.

We know the house before you tour it. Having sold on 124 streets, we have usually been inside the home, or the one next to it, before. We know which lots were split, which homes were taken to the studs, which have had drainage or slope issues, and which sellers are realistic.

We see inventory early. One in five Villa Park sales runs through our office, and 117 of our transactions were double-ended. A good share of our buyers were introduced to a home before it was broadly marketed, because the seller was already our client.

We price from real comparables. When we tell you what a home is worth, the number comes from 28 years of closed sales on these streets, many of which we closed ourselves, not from an online estimate that cannot see inside the house or down the hill.

About the data

Source: California Regional MLS closed residential sales, City of Villa Park, August 21, 1998 through October 15, 2026, as exported on October 26, 2026. 1998 and 2026 are partial years. Agent rankings count each transaction once per agent appearing on either side; Thomas Real Estate Group combines Hillary, Stephen and Nicholas Thomas across the brokerages they have worked under. Across all cities, the same MLS records show more than 940 transactions and over $1 billion in closed sales for our team. Hillary Thomas has been selling Orange County real estate since 1983, and the MLS retains records only from 1998 onward, so roughly the first fifteen years of the team’s production, in Villa Park and elsewhere, are not reflected in any figure on this page. Figures will be updated annually.

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