North Renton Home Prices: A Hyperlocal Market Snapshot

North Renton home prices carry a reported median of $390,641, down 5.2 percent year over year, but that headline rests on three sales in a reporting window that ended in March. The eight closings recorded since late April tell a different story, running from $499,950 to $760,000.

That gap between the published number and the actual closings is the widest we track anywhere in Renton. North Renton is the small historic grid between the Cedar River and the Boeing Renton plant, and it closes fewer homes per quarter than even Talbot Hill. When the sample is that thin, the portal headline stops describing the neighborhood at all.

The Rache Team has spent more than 26 years guiding Renton families toward wealth and homeownership, and the grid streets north of downtown are some of the ones we know best. This snapshot lays out what North Renton home prices actually look like right now, why the published median misleads, and what buyers and sellers should do with the real numbers.

What Are North Renton Home Prices Right Now?

The published figure is $390,641. That is the median sale price Redfin’s North Renton market data reports for its most recent three-month window, alongside $396 per square foot, a 96.1 percent sale-to-list ratio, and a median of 7 days on market.

Here is the problem. That window ended in March 2026, and it contained exactly three sales. As of this writing in early August, the neighborhood’s official market statistics are five months old and built on a sample smaller than a carpool.

The closings that have actually recorded since then paint a very different picture. Eight North Renton homes have sold since late April, at prices from $499,950 to $760,000. The median of those eight is $595,000, more than $200,000 above the published headline.

So the honest answer to the question is a range, not a number. Small homes on the grid have been trading in the $500,000s, larger and updated houses in the mid $700,000s, and the strongest recent sale closed 9 percent over its asking price in the same week this article was written.

Why the North Renton Home Prices Headline Misleads

Three sales. That is the entire sample behind the reported median, and it makes every derived statistic unstable.

For scale, Renton as a whole recorded 234 closings in May alone. Talbot Hill, the small neighborhood we profiled in an earlier snapshot, had five sales in its window. North Renton’s three-sale quarter is the thinnest data set of any area we cover, and it produces distortions you can see from across the room.

The reported median days on market is 7, listed as 68 days faster than the same period last year. No neighborhood accelerates by 68 days in a year. What actually happened is that a handful of slow sales defined last year’s window and a handful of quick ones defined this year’s. Neither number describes the street you would be buying on.

The 5.2 percent price decline reads the same way. When three homes set the median, the figure records which three homes happened to close, not what any individual house gained or lost. A quarter where two modest cottages and a condo sell will print a low median; a quarter with two large remodels will print a high one. Nothing about the underlying values needs to have moved at all.

We say this plainly because misreading it costs people money. A seller who anchors to $390,641 will underprice a house the market would pay $600,000 for. A buyer who walks in expecting a discount will lose the good listings to people who read the closings instead of the headline.

What Recent Closings Show About North Renton Home Prices

The freshest read on North Renton home prices comes from the sales themselves. Here are the eight closings Redfin lists for the neighborhood from late April through the first week of August 2026:

• 1210 N 2nd St, sold August 7 for $760,000. Four bedrooms, 3,030 square feet, listed at $699,950 and closed 9 percent over list after 22 days on market.
• 251 Meadow Ave N, sold August 4 for $600,000. Three bedrooms, 2,000 square feet, closed at list price after 47 days.
• 337 Park Ave N, sold July 15 for $595,000. Three bedrooms, 2,321 square feet, listed at $630,000 and closed 6 percent under list after 74 days.
• 516 Pelly Ave N, sold July 6 for $595,000. Three bedrooms, 1,500 square feet, closed at list price after 55 days.
• 804 N 3rd St, sold July 2 for $499,950. Two bedrooms, 1,120 square feet, closed at list price after 57 days.
• 328 Garden Ave N, sold June 11 for $550,000. Three bedrooms, 1,310 square feet, closed essentially at list after 21 days.
• 334 Wells Ave N, sold May 6 for $549,950. Four bedrooms, 1,430 square feet, closed at list price after 35 days.
• 350 Meadow Ave N, sold April 28 for $749,000. Three bedrooms with three baths, 1,790 square feet, closed at list price after 19 days.

What the eight sales have in common

Every one of them is on the historic grid, on streets like Park, Garden, Wells, Meadow, and Pelly Avenue North in the 98057 zip code. Every one of them closed well above the published neighborhood median. The median of the group is $595,000, and six of the eight landed between $499,950 and $600,000, which is the real price band for a typical house here right now.

The price-per-square-foot inversion

Run the per-foot math and a familiar pattern appears, the same one we found on Talbot Hill. The smallest homes traded at the highest rates: roughly $446 per square foot for the 1,120 square foot cottage on N 3rd St, about $420 for Garden Ave N, and $397 for Pelly Ave N. The biggest sale, 3,030 square feet on N 2nd St, closed at about $251 per foot.

That means the reported $396 per square foot mostly describes the neighborhood’s small homes, and applying it to a larger house will overprice it badly. Per-foot rates fall as square footage rises, here more steeply than in most of Renton.

How Do North Renton Home Prices Compare With Renton Overall?

Renton citywide posted a median of $712,074 for the three months ending May 2026, down 1.8 percent year over year, at $411 per square foot, according to Redfin’s Renton market data. Homes citywide are selling in a median of 11 days with roughly two offers each.

Set the real North Renton numbers beside that and the neighborhood’s value case is clear. A typical grid house has been closing between $500,000 and $600,000, which is $100,000 to $200,000 below the citywide median. North Renton remains one of the few places in the city where a detached house still regularly trades in the $500,000s.

The discount has a texture to it. The grid holds some of Renton’s oldest housing stock, with early twentieth century cottages and farmhouses alongside newer infill, and many homes are smaller than the city’s postwar and modern averages. You are paying less partly because you are buying less square footage, and partly because some of these homes need work.

What you get in exchange is location. The grid sits within walking distance of Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park, The Landing, and the Southport waterfront, with downtown Renton’s core just to the south and Kennydale beyond the Boeing plant to the north. Redfin scores the neighborhood 78 out of 100 for walkability and 82 for biking, and Sartori Elementary on Park Ave N carries an 8 out of 10 GreatSchools rating. We cover the lifestyle side in depth in our North Renton neighborhood guide, and the nearby amenities in our guides to Coulon Park and The Landing.

Competitiveness is the most striking comparison. North Renton scores 91 out of 100 on Redfin’s Compete Score, the rating of most competitive, against 81 for Renton citywide, 80 for Kennydale, and 77 for the Highlands. Measured over a full year rather than a three-sale quarter, this small grid is the most contested patch of housing in the city.

How Fast Do Homes Sell in North Renton?

Ignore the reported 7-day median, which comes from the stale three-sale window. The eight closings since late April ran 19 to 74 days on market, and half of them took more than a month.

The 12-month competitiveness data tells the other half of the story. Over the past year, average North Renton sales ran about 2 percent above list price and went pending in around 14 days, and the hottest listings drew offers around 7 percent over asking within about 6 days. Most homes here attract multiple offers, often with waived contingencies.

Both things are true, and the recent sales show how they fit together. The house on N 2nd St hit the market priced at $699,950, drew competition, and closed at $760,000 in 22 days. The house on Park Ave N listed at $630,000, sat for 74 days, and closed at $595,000. Same neighborhood, same summer, opposite outcomes.

The dividing line is pricing and presentation. Homes that come on at a credible number, clean and well presented, still generate the multiple-offer outcomes the Compete Score describes. Homes that test the market with an ambitious price sit through reductions, and on the grid a stale listing is visible to every neighbor walking to Coulon Park.

What North Renton Home Prices Mean If You Are Buying

The practical read for buyers is that North Renton home prices reward homework more than hope. Three things follow from the data:

• Throw out the portal median. Budget from the closings: small two-bedroom homes near $500,000, typical three-bedroom houses between $550,000 and $600,000, and larger or updated homes from $749,000 up. If a listing looks priced off the $390,641 headline, it is either a data artifact or an invitation to a bidding war.
• Expect competition on the good ones. A 91 Compete Score is not abstract. The best-presented house of the summer closed 9 percent over asking. If you find a well-priced home on the grid, plan your strongest offer early rather than a negotiation.
• Inspect with the housing stock’s age in mind. Many grid homes date to the early twentieth century. Sewer lines, foundations, wiring, and roofs deserve real scrutiny, and Redfin’s First Street data gives the neighborhood a moderate flood factor, with about 74 percent of properties carrying some long-term flood risk given the Cedar River and lake-adjacent setting. Check the flood map for any specific address and budget insurance accordingly.

The neighborhood advantages that drive the competition are durable. The grid’s walkability, the waterfront parks, and the short hop to the freeway network are not cyclical, and the Sartori catchment adds a school anchor few close-in neighborhoods can match.

What North Renton Home Prices Mean If You Are Selling

Sellers face the more expensive version of the misreading risk. If you anchor to the published median, you will underprice your house by six figures. If you anchor to the N 2nd St result without its condition and preparation, you will sit for 74 days like the house on Park Ave N did.

Price to your own segment of the closings. A 1,300 to 1,500 square foot home in solid condition has been trading between $550,000 and $600,000. A larger updated home has real support in the mid $700,000s. The per-foot inversion matters here too: quoting a whole-neighborhood dollar-per-square-foot figure on a 3,000 square foot house will price it far above what the market has been paying.

Presentation is carrying unusual weight this season. The at-list closings that took 47 to 74 days were, in most cases, homes that started high and worked their way down. The homes that sold fast and above list were priced credibly on day one. On a grid this small, the first two weekends decide which path a listing takes.

Timing is the third lever. The buyers still active headed into fall are motivated but choosier about condition, a seasonal turn we walk through in our Renton fall market guide.

Frequently Asked Questions About North Renton Home Prices

Find a Home in North Renton

North Renton home prices make sense once you stop trusting a three-sale median and start reading the closings. The real market is a $500,000 to $760,000 spread on a walkable historic grid, with the strongest competition score in the city and a sharp penalty for listings that price wrong in either direction.

Useful next reads from our team: the North Renton neighborhood guide for streets, parks, and daily life, the Renton Highlands price snapshot for a higher-volume comparison, and the Talbot Hill price snapshot for the neighborhood whose small-sample story most resembles this one.