Prices high, quantity low in August for Skagit County sold homes

The 2023 pattern for homes sold in Skagit County holds steady: Fewer properties are available in most of the county’s nine markets than a year ago. Considerably fewer homes are selling, about 25% below 2022, month over month, and prices are about the same as 2022, kept high by the ongoing either side of $800,000 for monthly median sold home prices in Anacortes. In August, $880,000 was the median price for the 27 homes that closed there, by far the highest price of the year.

The median price of the 134 homes that closed in Skagit County in August was just dollars below $600,000. The median pric...