The market's chilled out, but Seattle home prices still too hot for many first-time buyers
Sep. 9, 2019 at 5:48 pm Updated Sep. 9, 2019 at 6:34 pm
By Katherine Khashimova Long
Seattle Times business reporter
Seattle lost the title of the nation’s hottest housing market in August 2018 — but looking at home prices, which have stayed sky-high, that might be hard for shoppers to believe.
New monthly data shows the median price of a single-family home in Seattle — $760,000 — is exactly the same as it was one year ago. The same holds true for Bellevue, where a typical home ran $935,000 in August.
And while King County as a whole charted an infinitesimal bump in year-over-year home prices, it was so small that you might miss it if you blink: The price of a median home in the county was $670,000, compared with $669,000 twelve months ago, according to the monthly report from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, released Monday.
