When people talk about home prices in Whatcom County, they are usually talking about nominal prices, the actual dollar amounts buyers paid at the time. That measure matters because it reflects the market in real transactions. But it can be misleading across several years because the value of money changes. A 2025 dollar simply does not buy what a 2019 dollar bought. To look at the trend more clearly, I indexed the Whatcom County median sale price to March 2019 and then tracke

Lakeway Estates, a manufactured home community in Bellingham at 1200 Lincoln, was purchased for $41 million in 2024, and shortly after,...

Pacific Northwest new home sales data shows a clear pattern. New homes are getting smaller. This seems like an obvious response to the...