Lacey, WA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Lacey closes a lot of homes into a narrow band, which makes its median unusually informative: sales over the last six months land close together, so the citywide number is a real anchor rather than an average of extremes.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 365
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $515,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $285
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $458,000 and $590,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 365 closed sales in Lacey over the last six months, with a median closing price of $515,000. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $458,000 and $590,000. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. 86% of the Lacey closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 365 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $249 and $334 per square foot.

Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Lacey, WA (August 2026)

The median home price in Lacey is $515,000, measured across the 365 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $458,000 and $590,000.

Where Lacey sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Lacey over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $458,000 and $590,000. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 12 days, across 276 Lacey closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 29 days, across 276 Lacey closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Lacey angle

Lacey is a market where the median is doing most of the work for you. Across 365 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $515,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $458,000 and $590,000, one of the tightest bands we track, in the bottom ten percent. When the closed range compresses like that, $515,000 carries genuine predictive weight and the analysis shifts from what the city is worth to whether your subject belongs in the cluster at all. The count of closings Resideline tracked is close to typical for the markets we follow, so choose your filters rather than stacking them, and reserve the tight screening for the attributes you think push your property outside the pack.

From market read to offer price

A tight market makes the next step easier: the citywide anchor sits close to most homes, and a report only has to explain the gap. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. As of August 2026, the public scoreboard showed 3.26% median error across 12,516+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Lacey address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:

Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Lacey, WA
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 365
Median sold price: $515,000
Median sold $/sqft: $285 (365 qualifying)
Property mix: 86% houses
https://resideline.com/blog/lacey-wa-housing-market

The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Lacey over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.