Whatcom County home prices drop as Bellingham prices increase month to month
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- Whatcom County's median home price fell 1.3% from May to June 2025.
- Bellingham home prices rose 2.7% in June but remain down 8.5% year over year.
- June marked the first time since 2017 that active listings topped 1,000 in the county.
Median home sale prices in Bellingham and Washington increased in June, as Whatcom County saw an overall decrease in housing costs compared to May.
Whatcom County’s housing market
Whatcom County’s median home sale price reached an extreme high of $682,000 in July 2024, the highest price from 2012-2025, according to Redfin Metro Area Data. Redfin is a residential real estate brokerage that uses home listings to generate metro area data.
Whatcom County’s median sale price across all of June was $595,000, a 1.3% decrease compared with May and a 0.3% decrease compared with the same month last year, according to Jason Lee, a local broker with Windermere Real Estate in Bellingham.
The county’s median home sale price in May was $610,000.
“June 2025 was the first time Whatcom County reached 1,000 active homes and condos for sale since 2017. This inventory level has remained consistent into the month of July,” Lee told The Herald.
“The additional inventory contributed to lower year over year median home prices in both Whatcom County and Bellingham.”
Bellingham’s housing market
In June, Bellingham’s median sold price was $650,000, according to Lee. That’s a 2.7% increase compared with May, and an 8.5% decrease compared with June of last year, Lee said.
The median price of homes sold in Bellingham in June was $649,000, according to data from Rocket Homes.
In May, Bellingham’s median home sale price was $642,000.
Washington’s housing market
Washington’s median home sale price in June was $665,500, an increase of 2.5% compared to the same month last year, according to Redfin data.
Washington’s median home sale price in May was $653,330.
Washington has been among the top 5 most expensive states in which to purchase a home in 2025, alongside California, Hawaii, Massachusetts and Colorado.
“Nationwide, 28% of homebuyers searched to move to a different metro area between Feb ‘25 - Apr ‘25. The top 5 states homebuyers searched to move to were Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee while California, New York, Illinois, Washington, and Maryland were the top 5 states homebuyers searched to move from,” according to Redfin’s U.S. Migration Trends data.
