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Live Bristol listings updated daily from the MLS — plus what local buyers should know before making a move.
Under $500K covers most of what Bristol records in a normal year. Recorded arm’s-length sales from 2023 through mid-2026 mostly clustered between roughly $330K and $650K, the trailing-12-month average sale price runs about $432,795, and the entire core ranch market — Willowbrook to $455,000, Storybook Highlands to $422,500 — trades below this line. At the top of the range you start reaching Bristol Woods, the custom-home pocket on Corneils Road, where recorded sales ran $325,000 to $640,000.
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Active listings pulled directly from the MLS.
Below the mid-$400Ks, expect the ranch plats: 1960s–1970s homes on lots at or near an acre, roughly 1,300–1,900 square feet. From there up, the market shifts toward custom homes — Bristol Woods properties run roughly 1,000–4,300 square feet with a median near 2,600, mostly two-stories built around 1990 in a wooded setting. Across the board: well and septic are common, no mandatory HOA is reported in MLS-fed sources for the main plats, and the acre-scale lot is the constant.
Bristol Woods sits on Corneils Road just east of Route 47, on the west edge of the historic village core — about 35 custom homes with recorded 2023–2026 sales from $325,000 to $640,000. Willowbrook and Storybook Highlands anchor the northeast corner of the township off Galena Road. Everything is about 3 miles from downtown Yorkville and minutes from the Route 47 corridor, with Raging Waves and Blackberry Oaks Golf Course as the local landmarks.
For the custom and acreage end of this range, build inspection time into your offer: well flow and water quality tests, septic inspection, and a survey review for easements. Appraisal comps are thin — Bristol records only a handful of sales a year — so documentation matters. Conventional financing with standard down payments is the norm; we verify the tax history on the specific parcel before you write.
The $430K–$500K slice is where Bristol gets interesting: it’s the crossover point between the best ranch on the market and the entry to the custom-home pockets. Those crossover listings surface only a few times a year and draw both buyer pools at once. Tell us which side of the line you want and we’ll flag the next match the morning it hits the MLS.
Whether you are just starting your search or ready to schedule a showing, Kealan O’Neil is here to help you every step of the way.