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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 price countywide has moved little and has been above $545,000 since March.

Ten of the 13 homes sold in the La Conner market were in Shelter Bay. The sold home prices in Shelter Bay ranged from $295,000 for a Shelter Bay Drive home to $803,600 for Shoshone Drive property. A Landed Gentry property on Maple Avenue was the only sale within La Conner, at $685,000. The other two homes, near Skagit Bay, on Snee Oosh Road, $1.45 million and Cobahud Road, $685,000, were well above the market’s median sold home price of $492,000.

In the La Conner market, 13 new homes were listed, three down from last month but about the same number through the spring and summer. The four homes in the Town of La Conner start at $699,900.

The largest quantity of homes, 38, sold in the Mount Vernon market at a median price of $579,475. The 24 homes sold in the Sedro-Woolley area had a median price of $622,450. The quantity of homes sold was over 15 below last August in each market.

The La Conner inventory estimate is again 60 days. Countywide, the inventory estimate is about 56 days to sell all homes if no new structures came on the market.

The median sales price is where half of the home sales are above it and half are below it.