Listings up, sales down in the Basin
This house in Moses Lake was listed for $360,000 Wednesday. The median home price in Grant County was $376,450 last month, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.
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MOSES LAKE — Washington home buyers had more to choose from this year, according to data released by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service, which tracks real estate trends in 27 of Washington’s 39 counties.
Active listings in Washington increased 22% between August 2025 and August 2026, according to the NWMLS data. The growth during that time was much less in the Basin; Grant County active listings rose 10.98% and only 7.1% in Adams County. Compared to July 2026, August active listings held fairly steady in Grant County, rising 2.44%. Adams County active listings rose from 49 in July to 58 in August.
New listings were up 9.3% and closed sales down 7.6% statewide compared to a year ago, according to the NWMLS. In Grant County, new listings dropped from 148 in August 2025 to 128 in 2026. In Adams County, new listings held steady at 16. Grant County’s closed sales rose slightly, by 1.03%, and Adams County closed seven sales compared to 10 in 2025.
The median price of a home in Grant County was $376,450 in August, an increase year-over-year of 2.32% and of 4.5% compared to July. Adams County’s median price was $278,000 in August 2026, a 26.38% drop from August 2025 and 18.24% lower than in July 2026.
The average 30-year fixed-mortgage interest rate was 6.76% Wednesday, up from 6.71% a week earlier and 6.35% a year ago, according to Freddie Mac.
“High interest rates continued to put a damper on the housing market in August,” Steven Bourassa, director of the Washington Center for Real Estate Research, wrote in the NWMLS release. “Higher rates were reflected in significant declines in numbers of home sales."