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Last year was a great time to sell a house throughout western Washington, or be a residential realtor. Buyers seeking homes in Skagit County know it was a sellers market: The $500,000 median home price was up 18.2% over 2020, good for brokers and sellers, both. The 111 homes priced – not sold – at $1 million or more pushed the median price up. Almost 2,000 homes and condos sold in the county. That is 159 dwellings, 7.4% fewer than sold in 2020. The median sold price of 3-bedroom homes countywide was $492,750.

The median sales price is the point where half of the sales are above it...