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

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

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 152
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $634,972
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $296
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $541,250 and $699,995

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 152 closed sales in Stanwood over the last six months, with a median closing price of $634,972. 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 $541,250 and $699,995. 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. 80% of the Stanwood 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 152 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $274 and $345 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Stanwood, WA (October 2026)

The median home price in Stanwood is $634,972, measured across the 152 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $541,250 and $699,995.

Where Stanwood sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Stanwood 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 $541,250 and $699,995. Among the 67 Washington markets with a published band, Stanwood's middle-half spread ($541,250 to $699,995) ranks 3rd 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 2nd percentile of the 2,230 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of October 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 26 days, across 119 Stanwood closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 31 days, across 121 Stanwood closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Stanwood angle

Stanwood's band is narrow by the standards of the markets we track, with $541,250 and $699,995 sitting closer together than they usually do. That makes $634,972 a more usable anchor than a citywide midpoint normally is, because the middle half of closings occupies a compact range. The practical consequence is about outliers. In a compact market, an estimate that lands well outside the band is a stronger signal than it would be elsewhere, and it should be traceable to a documented property characteristic rather than accepted at face value. The two halves of that band are not the same width: $541,250 up to $634,972 covers more ground than $634,972 up to $699,995. Closings below the midpoint are spread across more dollars than closings above it.

Stanwood market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Stanwood ZIP codes: 98292.

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, 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 Stanwood 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: Stanwood, WA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 5367455
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 152
Median sold price: $634,972
Median sold $/sqft: $296 (152 qualifying)
Property mix: 80% houses
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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 Stanwood over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.