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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.
132 recorded single-family sales since October 27, 2020
Narrow the years
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 | 10 | 7 days · 10 sales |
| $100–199k | 8 | 80 days · 8 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
- −2.2%132 sales
- Sold at or above list price
- 35%46 of 132
- Median market time
- 26 days132 sales
- Cash sales
- 26%34 of 132 with financing recorded
How this is calculated
Every figure on this page is computed from recorded RMLS sales inside the Bay City boundary. 132 sales since October 27, 2020. No estimates, no models.
- Single-family homes only — condominiums, land and commercial sales are excluded.
- Individual sales are shown by price and date. No property is identified by address.
- Market time prefers the cumulative figure, which survives a relisting, and falls back to days on market where RMLS records no cumulative one. The number of sales behind each median is shown beside it.
- “Sold at or above list price” compares the closing price with the price the listing opened at. A seller may hold their list price and accept a lower offer, so this measures the gap rather than a price reduction.
- “Cash sales” counts sales RMLS records as financed by cash alone, as a share of the sales where financing was recorded at all. Where RMLS records no financing the sale is left out of that figure rather than counted as not cash.
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