A typical Bay View home is worth roughly $901,000
The median sale price was $1,600,000 in May 2026.
Only 1 sale in May 2026: in a market this size, monthly medians swing a lot, so the typical value is the steadier guide.
What kind of housing town is Bay View?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 10 years of income
More than across Washington (5.8 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $539K short of a typical Bay View home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,540 a month here, $3,680 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Bay View’s typical property tax (0.66% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Home prices up 54% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Bay View rose 54% over the past 5 years, faster than across Washington (44%). Last year prices rose 5.7%.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Bay View, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,540
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
85% of Bay View households own their home
Half of Bay View’s homes were built before 1985.
Washington: 64% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Neighbors talk housing
What Bay View buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.