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Live Bristol listings updated daily from the MLS — plus what local buyers should know before making a move.
If Bristol has a signature listing type, this is it. This unincorporated corner of north-central Kendall County is built around land: 104 Willowbrook homes on roughly one-acre lots, the one-acre custom parcels of the Royal Oaks Drive corridor backing Blackberry Oaks Golf Course, wooded Bristol Woods properties on Corneils Road, and true farmettes along Cannonball Trail and Bristol Ridge Road. Recorded sales from 2023 through mid-2026 ran from about $310,000 to $755,000 — a full acreage price ladder that quarter-acre subdivision towns simply don’t offer.
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Active listings pulled directly from the MLS.
Expect lots at or near an acre as the baseline, with larger farmette parcels beyond the plats. The housing spans four eras: 1960s ranches in Willowbrook (median 1,856 square feet), 1970s ranches in Storybook Highlands, circa-1990 customs in Bristol Woods (median near 2,600 square feet), and 1991–2005 customs by the golf course, including 1.5-plus-acre Blackberry Ridge lots. Well and septic are standard, mature trees are everywhere, and no mandatory HOA is reported in MLS-fed sources for the main plats.
Buyers priced out of new Yorkville subdivisions come to Bristol for exactly this: an acre with a Yorkville CUSD 115 address, about 3 miles from downtown Yorkville, roughly 15 minutes from I-88 via Route 47 or Orchard Road, and 20–25 minutes from Metra’s BNSF line at the Aurora Transportation Center. Blackberry Oaks Golf Course, Steven G. Bridge Park, Raging Waves, and the Fox River frame the community’s edges.
Budget for well and septic inspections, a survey, and a title review of easements — standard practice on acre-plus land. Review any recorded covenants before assuming you can add an outbuilding; unincorporated parcels vary, and the golf-course plats carry their own rules. Appraisal comps are thin, so a broker who can document every recorded 60512 sale protects your price. Most finished acreage homes here fit ordinary conventional financing.
Acreage in Bristol moves on its own clock — with one or two active listings at a time, a property can be the only game in town the week it lists. Serious buyers should tell us their non-negotiables (trees, outbuilding, golf course, acreage size) and let us watch the corridor parcel by parcel; in a market this thin, the best matches are often spoken for within days.
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.
