Reports  ›  Weekly · 2026-08-16

Washington real estate — week of Aug 14, 2026

Washington's major metros split this week: 2 negative, 3 positive on year-over-year median sale price. Range this week: seattle-tacoma-bellevue at -1.5% YoY to olympia-lacey-tumwater at +1.7%.

Headline numbers

Bellingham

$637K -0.0%

Kennewick

$428K +1.0%

Olympia

$547K +1.7%

Seattle

$889K -1.5%

Spokane

$375K -0.9%

This week's signals

Strength 4 / 5

14 days

Redmond homes taking 14 days to sell — +100.0% vs. a year ago

Homes are sitting materially longer than they were this time last year — the first hard sign of softening demand or over-priced inventory.

Strength 4 / 5

$1.0M

Bothell median price -8.7% YoY

Price-per-sqft also -7.8% YoY across 51 closed sales.

Strength 4 / 5

16 days

Bellevue homes taking 16 days to sell — +100.0% vs. a year ago

Homes are sitting materially longer than they were this time last year — the first hard sign of softening demand or over-priced inventory.

Strength 4 / 5

18 days

Renton homes taking 18 days to sell — +125.0% vs. a year ago

Homes are sitting materially longer than they were this time last year — the first hard sign of softening demand or over-priced inventory.

Strength 4 / 5

15 days

Renton homes taking 15 days to sell — +114.3% vs. a year ago

Homes are sitting materially longer than they were this time last year — the first hard sign of softening demand or over-priced inventory.

Strength 4 / 5

22 days

Lacey homes taking 22 days to sell — +100.0% vs. a year ago

Homes are sitting materially longer than they were this time last year — the first hard sign of softening demand or over-priced inventory.

Strength 4 / 5

20 days

Bothell homes taking 20 days to sell — +150.0% vs. a year ago

Homes are sitting materially longer than they were this time last year — the first hard sign of softening demand or over-priced inventory.

Strength 4 / 5

20 days

Kirkland homes taking 20 days to sell — +185.7% vs. a year ago

Homes are sitting materially longer than they were this time last year — the first hard sign of softening demand or over-priced inventory.

Source divergence

ZIP-level reconciliation will appear here once curated ZIP coverage lands for Washington.

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