Sammamish Homes for Sale

Sammamish is a market of houses on their own lots, and that shapes almost everything about shopping here. Nearly all of the homes for sale are detached, standing alone with their own roof, their own driveway and their own yard, rather than attached units inside a condo or townhouse development. So the questions you end up asking are house questions: how big the floor plan runs, what the systems are, what the land in front of and behind the walls asks of you. Homes Northwest works this area day to day and knows how those listings differ from one street to the next. What follows walks through the parts of the market a buyer here usually weighs.

Sammamish at a Glance

ZIP codes in these listings

98074 · 98075 · 98029

Typical asking price

$1,649,950, middle half $1,275,000-$2,099,950 (median of 285 homes, excluding 18 land and other non-dwelling listings)

Typical sold price

$1,600,000, middle half $1,250,000-$1,975,000 (median of 618 home sales, excluding 9 land and other non-dwelling sales, past 12 months)

Typical home

2,880 sq ft, middle half 2,150-3,570 (n=285) · 4 bed / 3 bath (medians, n=281)

Typical days to sell

15 days (median of 618 closed home sales, past 12 months)

Months of supply

5.5 (balanced, homes only)

Sold-to-list

98.5% of asking (median per home sale, n=618) · 17.3% sold above asking

Data current as of

August 2026

Homes over 3,000 square feet in Sammamish

Past 3,000 square feet, the house stops being one shared space and starts being zones: a floor you rarely use on a weekday, a room that can become an office without displacing anyone, storage that is actual storage. Budget around $2,085,000 and that is the scale of house you are buying, typically built in 2001, across 247 recorded sales. The trade is that every one of those square feet is heated, cooled, cleaned and eventually re-roofed on your schedule. Homes this size sold in a median of 18 days. When you tour, walk the far corners of the plan and ask yourself honestly which rooms you will live in.

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Waterfront homes in Sammamish

On the water, you look out at water rather than at a neighbor, and the water part of that will not change, whatever gets built around it. That is the whole appeal, and it is the reason the front of the house becomes the side you live on: the glass, the deck, the room that faces out. Waterfront here runs to a median of $4,100,000 across 21 sales, on homes typically built in 1988, and those sales took a median of 40 days. An older waterfront house means original-era systems and finishes are part of the conversation, and many owners buy knowing the interior will be reworked over time. Day to day, though, what you actually own is a house where the good rooms all point one direction and the back of the property is where you keep the cars.

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What ownership here asks of you

The typical house here was built in 1995, with the middle half of the stock landing between 1987 and 2003. At that age, ask which of the roof, the air handler and the water heater have already been replaced and when, because on many of these homes that work sits behind the house rather than ahead of it. Four bedrooms is the layout that trades most often, at a median of $1,699,500 across 284 closed sales, and the largest single band of sale prices falls between $1 million and $2 million. Governance varies from listing to listing: some homes sit inside an association with rules, dues and documents, and others sit in no subdivision at all with nothing governing them but the county. Establish which applies to any address you are serious about. Either way, the yard, the gutters, the driveway and the long stretches of siding are yours to keep after, season by season.

What buyers filter for in Sammamish

Views are the common filter, and most listings here report a territorial one, with roughly one in six reporting a lake view and about one in ten mountains. Schools are the other field buyers sort on. On the high school side, listings name Skyline High and Eastlake High at roughly a third each, with a small share left for the buyer to verify; at the middle school level, Inglewood Middle appears in roughly a third, Pine Lake Mid in about a quarter and Beaver Lake Mid in roughly one in six. Treat all of those as what the listing agent typed into the field, not as district assignments. Boundaries move and listing data goes stale, so confirm the current assignment for a specific address directly with the school district.

What to pin down before you make an offer

• Whether the home is on septic or connected to sewer.
• Lakefront or lake access rights on Lake Sammamish.
• Wildfire and defensible space in forested lots.
• Lake frontage rights, dock permitting, and shoreline management compliance.
• Homeowners association rules, dues, architectural review, and reserve funding.

Buying in Sammamish with Homes Northwest

Homes Northwest works Sammamish week in and week out, and that shows up in small, practical ways: someone who has walked enough of these houses to talk through what a large floor plan actually asks of you, day to day, against everything else on your list. A home over 3,000 square feet is the kind of purchase that deserves that conversation before you write anything, not after. Take the time to sort out what you want the house to do, then match it to what is standing. You end up with a home that fits how you live and a decision you feel settled about.