Lake Stevens, WA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Lake Stevens 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: 331
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $669,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $348
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $575,000 and $770,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 331 closed sales in Lake Stevens over the last six months, with a median closing price of $669,000. 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 $575,000 and $770,000. 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. Across the 331 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $312 and $402 per square foot.

Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Lake Stevens, WA (September 2026)

The median home price in Lake Stevens is $669,000, measured across the 331 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $575,000 and $770,000.

Where Lake Stevens sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Lake Stevens over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $575,000 and $770,000. Among the 64 Washington markets with a published band, Lake Stevens's middle-half spread ($575,000 to $770,000) ranks 9th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 6th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 12 days, across 253 Lake Stevens closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 29 days, across 249 Lake Stevens closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Lake Stevens angle

Lake Stevens ranks among the tightest tenth of the spreads Resideline tracks, which is good news for anyone who has to defend a valuation. Across 331 closings we tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $669,000 and the middle half of sales fell between $575,000 and $770,000. Closings that cluster this closely make the median a strong starting point. Recorded volume is close to typical for the markets we track. Use the tightness as a test: a comp landing far outside the band deserves a look at its property type and condition before it goes into your set.

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. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

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

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Lake Stevens, WA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 5337900
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 331
Median sold price: $669,000
Median sold $/sqft: $348 (331 qualifying)
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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 Lake Stevens over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Lake Stevens city limits are not limited to listing-service sales: they also include foreclosure deeds, estate and family transfers, and other off-market sales that portal medians exclude, which is why 16% of the 331 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $675,000.