Market report
Bay City Real Estate Market Report
Bay City home sales, in perspective
Bay City's sales record shows a market whose central price range has moved more gradually than its negotiating conditions. The rapid pace and stronger list-price performance of 2021 and 2022 softened in the years that followed, with longer marketing periods and a greater share of homes closing below their original asking price. Because the market mixes conventional in-town houses, elevated view properties and more rural-edge settings, a change in what sells also needs to be weighed when one year is compared with another. The record below shows both movements side by side.
Bay City's local geography ranges from Downtown and the neighborhood streets near Al Griffin Memorial Park to the Bayview area, the homes near Kilchis Point Reserve, and hillside properties overlooking Tillamook Bay. Those settings produce materially different value characteristics even within one small community. The live report below keeps that context in view by plotting every transaction individually and letting you choose the precise period you want to study, rather than relying on a citywide headline statistic.
Market pulse
The last 180 days of recorded single-family sales inside the Bay City boundary.
A bit cooler than recent years
Compared with this market's last two years.
Homes are taking 28 days to sell and selling at 96.1% of original list price.
Median sold price
$432,050
Homes sold
12
Median days on market
28
Last six months in Bay City, against the same six months last year
- Median sold price$432,050, 13% higher than last year at $383,995
- Homes sold12 sold, about the same as last year at 11
- Median days on market28 days, 11 days longer than last year at 17
- List to sold96.1%, lower than last year at 97.7%
- Homes for sale8 now
- Pending2 now
SellingPrices are higher than last year, but homes are selling more slowly and at a lower share of list price.
BuyingAbout as many homes are selling as last year, and at a lower share of list price.
Sales history, 2020 to today
132 recorded single-family sales since November 12, 2020
Choose the years to show.
2020–2026 · 132 sales
Sales by price
2020–2026. Price ranges stay the same whatever years you choose, so you can compare one period with another.
| Price | Sales | Median market time |
|---|---|---|
| $700k+ | 10 | 18 days · 10 sales |
| $600–699k | 13 | 58 days · 13 sales |
| $500–599k | 14 | 33 days · 14 sales |
| $400–499k | 33 | 27 days · 33 sales |
| $300–399k | 44 | 21 days · 44 sales |
| $200–299k | 11 | 9 days · 11 sales |
| $100–199k | 7 | 85 days · 7 sales |
What sellers got
In Bay City, 2020–2026
- Median sold price
- $409,000132 sales
- Median original list price
- $439,500132 sales
- Median gap to list price
- −2.1%132 sales
- Sold at or above list price
- 35%46 of 132
- Median market time
- 25 days132 sales
- Cash sales
- 25%33 of 132 with financing recorded
How this is calculated
Figures are computed from RMLS closed single-family sales inside the Bay City boundary and refresh daily from the feed. No property is identified.
About these figures
- Counted: sales RMLS records as Sold. Not counted: off-market sales recorded after the fact, and listings that expired, were withdrawn or were canceled.
- Single-family homes only — condominiums, land and commercial sales are excluded.
- The pulse says whether Bay City's most recent period — a quarter, or six months or a year where a quarter has too few sales — ran warmer or cooler than this market's own recent years; it is not shown where there are still too few sales.
- Market time is RMLS's cumulative days on market; cash sales are those paid in cash only.
- Homes for sale is counted nightly from Oct 31, 2026; comparisons appear as that history builds.
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