What King County sellers are asking, July 2026
The median King County home was listed at $850,000 in July 2026, down 2.7% from a year earlier. The series high is $949,248 (May 2022); the low is $550,000 (December 2016).
This is what sellers want, which is a different and less careful number than what buyers pay. It moves with the mix of what happens to be on the market — a spring full of Eastside houses lifts it without any individual home getting more expensive — which is exactly the problem Case-Shiller is built to avoid by tracking repeat sales of the same properties. Read this one for the asking mood and that one for the price level.
What it has going for it is speed: an asking price exists the day the sign goes up, while Case-Shiller is a three-month average published two months late. Nominal dollars, not seasonally adjusted.
Source: Realtor.com residential listings, King County WA (FIPS 53033), via FRED MEDLISPRI53033. Nominal dollars. Auto-generated each build.