Grant Co. listings highest in the western part of the county
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The part of Grant County that includes Mattawa, shown here, had the most active housing market in the county in March.
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MOSES LAKE — The western part of Grant County had the most active housing market in March, according to data from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.
The strip that includes Quincy, Desert Aire, Sunland Estates and Crescent Bar had 79 active listings in March 2025, according to the NWMLS, a 44% increase over March 2024. That region also led the county in new listings, with 13. At the opposite end of the spectrum was the Royal City area, with only three new listings and eight active. No sales closed in that area during March, according to the NWMLS data.
The median home prices told a different story. The area that includes Wheeler, Warden and MarDon, south and east of Moses Lake, had four closed sales in March at a median price of $641,000. That’s more than double the median price in March 2024,which was $310,500. The median price countywide was $375,499, an increase of 15.54%.
Across Washington, the median home price was $629,600 at the end of February, the most recent month for which data was available, according to the real estate website Redfin. That represents a 1.8% increase year-over-year. Closed sales were up statewide by 2.2% and homes were spending 35 days on the market on average, an increase of four days from a year earlier.
The top 10 areas of Washington with the fastest-growing home prices were al on the west side of the state, according to Redfin, except for Yakima, which came in fourth at 18.8%. 31.6% of homes sold above list price in February, according to Redfin, while 22.5% had price decreases.
According to Redfin’s search data, Washington ranked fourth among states people wanted to move away from between February and March of this year. Sixteen thousand more people in Washington searched for homes outside of the state than searched for Washington homes from elsewhere.
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