Mount Vernon, WA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Mount Vernon 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: 259
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $525,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $320
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $426,000 and $620,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 259 closed sales in Mount Vernon over the last six months, with a median closing price of $525,000. 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 $426,000 and $620,000. 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 258 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $262 and $391 per square foot.

Figures last updated October 3, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Mount Vernon, WA (October 2026)

The median home price in Mount Vernon is $525,000, measured across the 259 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $426,000 and $620,000.

Where Mount Vernon sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Mount Vernon 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 $426,000 and $620,000. Among the 67 Washington markets with a published band, Mount Vernon's middle-half spread ($426,000 to $620,000) ranks 25th from the narrowest. 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 14 days, across 186 Mount Vernon closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 29 days, across 170 Mount Vernon closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Mount Vernon angle

That is a comfortable place to work from, provided you still do the work. Ordinary spread means $525,000 is a fair opening reference and a fair sanity check, but not a substitute for matched comps. With a sample this size you can filter on property type and living area before widening on distance, which is the order that preserves the most information. The two halves of that band are close to the same width, so $525,000 sits near the middle of it rather than off to one side. Neither direction holds more of the band's width than the other. Confirm your comps sit on the subject's side of the midpoint.

Mount Vernon market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Mount Vernon ZIP codes: 98273 · 98274.

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, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR 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 Mount Vernon address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Mount Vernon, WA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 5347560
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 259
Median sold price: $525,000
Median sold $/sqft: $320 (258 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 Mount Vernon over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Mount Vernon 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 26% of the 259 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $539,000.