Bothell Homes for Sale

Bothell is a Puget Sound suburb built around its green space, with a verified preserve and park land threaded through the residential streets. That is the setting the housing sits in, and it shapes how the area is laid out more than anything else does. The homes for sale here read as one market rather than two competing halves, so the work of buying is less about picking a side and more about placing yourself accurately: what era of construction you want to own, what you want to be responsible for maintaining, and what your money reaches. Homes Northwest works this area closely, and the pages that follow lay out the segments, the terms of ownership, and the checks worth making before you write anything.

Bothell at a Glance

Typical asking price

$989,475, middle half $664,999-$1,291,250 (median of 516 homes, excluding 15 land and other non-dwelling listings)

Typical sold price

$970,000, middle half $750,000-$1,250,000 (median home sale price, excluding land and other non-dwelling sales, past 12 months)

Typical home

2,192 sq ft, middle half 1,619-2,726 (n=489) · 4 bed / 3 bath (medians, n=516)

Typical days to sell

20 days (median of 993 closed home sales, past 12 months)

Months of supply

4.6 (balanced, homes only)

Sold-to-list

99.4% of asking (median per home sale, n=993) · 15.3% sold above asking

Data current as of

August 2026

The newer end of Bothell

The newer streets are where nothing needs replacing and nothing needs updating, so you unpack, live there, and leave the systems alone while they are still the current generation. That is the whole proposition, and it is a real one. New construction here typically carries a build year of 2026, and the median sale sits at $1,184,500 across 283 sales, so if that is the part of Bothell you want, plan a budget that starts above the seven-figure line rather than hoping to slip under it. Homes at this end took a median of 25 days from listing to sale, which is useful when you are lining up a closing date against a lease or a sale of your own. Ask what warranty coverage transfers to you as the second owner, and get the builder's punch list history for the phase you are buying into.

The attached side of Bothell

When the exterior is not yours, nothing outside your own front door is yours to organize. You can travel for months and come back to a building that was looked after while you were gone: no roof to schedule, no siding to think about, no landscaping waiting for you. What you hold is the interior, and you share everything past it through a fee. Bothell's attached stock typically carries a build year of 2005, with a median sale of $779,000 across 293 sales, which is the number to hold in your head when you set a budget. Homes in this segment take around 34 days to sell, useful mainly for planning the shape of your own timeline. Beyond the standard association paperwork, ask how the building handles rentals and whether any unit-level insurance is expected of you, since that sits outside what the association carries.

What owning here asks of you

The typical Bothell home was built in 2004, with the middle half of the stock falling between 1982 and 2019. That is precisely the age where the first round of big-ticket replacements comes due, so have the seller tell you which of them have already happened and when. Four bedrooms is the most common layout sold, with a median of $1,080,000, which is a useful place to locate yourself if that is the house you picture. Sales spread widely: the $1M to $2M band is the largest single group, roughly a third of closings, while the median lands in the $500K to $1M range. More than half of listings are single-family, about a quarter are condos, and a small share are manufactured homes. Governance varies with all of that. Some homes answer to an association with dues, rules and documents; others sit in no subdivision and answer to nobody. Establish which applies to any listing you are serious about. Bothell Landing Park is one of the parks in town, worth knowing if a listing's location relative to public open space matters to you.

What buyers filter for

Nearly all homes here are described as having a territorial view, meaning trees, rooftops and slope rather than water. A small share report mountains, and a small share report a river outlook, so if you want to look at something specific, say so early and expect a short list. Schools come up in almost every search, and the way they appear in listings needs care. These are fields typed in by the listing agent, not district assignments. On the high school line, Bothell Hs appears in about a quarter of listings, with Buyer To Verify and Henry M. Jackson Hig each around one in six. At elementary, Buyer To Verify is about a quarter, with Westhill Elem and Woodmoor Elem each a small share. At middle school, Canyon Park Middle School is about a quarter, Buyer To Verify roughly one in six, and Skyview Middle School about one in ten. Boundaries change and listing fields go stale, so confirm the current assignment for a specific address with the district itself.

Where the listings come from

Three names carry enough listings to be worth typing into a search box. North Creek accounts for roughly one in six, Canyon Park about one in ten, and Mill Creek about one in ten. Put together, those three are roughly a third of what is on the market. The rest sits in smaller communities with no name a buyer would think to look up, which means a search built on development names will miss most of Bothell. Filter on the things that actually sort this market instead: property class, price band, and frontage or lot situation. Then use the community names as a way to describe a shortlist you already have, rather than as the way you build one in the first place.

What to pin down before you make an offer

• Flood zone status near the Sammamish River and low-lying areas.
• Proximity to flight paths or highway noise affecting property.
• Age and condition of roof and siding given regional moisture exposure.
• Check which fire district serves the property and get a homeowners quote early, since availability varies by location.
• HOA dues, reserves, and any special assessments in newer planned communities.

Buying in Bothell with Homes Northwest

We work this market constantly, which mostly means we can read a listing sheet here and tell you what it is leaving out before you spend a Saturday on it. That saves you time and it saves you attaching yourself to the wrong house. The decision in front of you is fairly clean: the newer end of Bothell, with everything current and nothing waiting on you, or an established home where you take on some of that work yourself in exchange for a different price and a different street. Both are real options here. What matters is which one fits the way you actually live, and that is a question worth sitting with.