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

If you invest in or around Seattle, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Seattle sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of August 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 5,312
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $850,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $555
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $625,000 and $1,220,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 5,312 closed sales in Seattle over the last six months, with a median closing price of $850,000. 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 $625,000 and $1,220,000. 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. The large tracked sample provides substantial market-level evidence. Across the 5,300 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $471 and $659 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Seattle, WA (August 2026)

The median home price in Seattle is $850,000, measured across the 5,312 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $625,000 and $1,220,000.

Where Seattle sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Seattle over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $625,000 and $1,220,000. 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 10 days, across 3,852 Seattle closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 24 days, across 3,796 Seattle closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Seattle angle

Across 5,312 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $850,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $625,000 and $1,220,000. A middle-of-the-road spread means the citywide median is neither useless nor sufficient: it will get you within range, and matched comps close the rest of the gap. Note that the upper quartile sits further from the median than the lower one does, so the cost of misjudging a strong subject is larger than the cost of misjudging a weak one. With this much closed volume available, there is no reason to loosen filters early.

What is being reported about the Seattle market

The numbers above are what we measure from tracked closings. Alongside them, here is what local and national coverage is reporting, from the source:

• •Seattle King County REALTORS, summarizing the NWMLS July 2026 report, reported that King County active listings grew 23.7% year-over-year from 6,337 to 7,836, new listings rose 16.1% from 3,552 to 4,124, closed sales fell 11.9% year-over-year to 2,022 from 2,296, and the median sales price edged up 0.5% to $879,500 (Seattle King County REALTORS, Aug 06, 2026)
• •Northwest Multiple Listing Service's July 2026 market snapshot reported that King County's median sales price was $879,500, while across the NWMLS service area active listings rose 19.8% year-over-year to 24,888 and brokers added 11,517 new listings in July, a 10.5% year-over-year increase (Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS), Aug 04, 2026)

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. 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 12,508+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Seattle 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: Seattle, WA
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 5,312
Median sold price: $850,000
Median sold $/sqft: $555 (5,300 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/seattle-housing-market-2026

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 Seattle over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track inside the 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 15% of the 5,312 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $875,000.