Washington County, VT housing market

When is the best month to sell a house in Washington County, VT?

In Washington County, VT, homes have sold for the most in July and the least in February. Over the last three years the gap between those two months worked out to about 19% of a typical year's price.

The short version: list in July if you want the highest price, and expect February to be the softest month of the year.

Speed follows a slightly different calendar. Homes in Washington County, VT have gone under contract fastest in April. That is not always the same month prices peak, because the busiest month usually brings the most competition from other sellers too.

The most homes come on the market in June. More listings means more buyers looking, but also more homes competing with yours.

This is based on three years of Redfin's published sales data for the Washington County, VT area, through May 2026. It is a pattern, not a promise — one house in good condition priced correctly beats the calendar every time.

How long does it take to sell a house in Washington County, VT?

In Washington County, VT, the typical home sold in 66 days on the market during May 2026. That is the middle of the range — half of homes sold faster, half took longer.

A year ago the typical home took 50 days. Homes are taking 16 days longer now.

Days on the market counts the time from the day a home is listed to the day it goes under contract. It does not include the weeks between the accepted offer and the closing table, which usually adds another month.

For context: at the current pace of sales, it would take about 5.0 months to sell every home now on the market in Washington County, VT. Buyers and sellers are about evenly matched right now.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Washington County, VT area, through May 2026.

Do homes sell above asking price in Washington County, VT?

In Washington County, VT, 16% of homes sold for more than the asking price during May 2026. The other 84% sold at or below what the seller asked.

Across all sales, the typical home fetched 97% of its asking price. That is a discount of about 3% off asking on a typical sale.

23% of the homes on the market cut their price during the same stretch. A high number there and a low number above asking usually means sellers are starting too high.

Bidding wars happen in Washington County, VT but they are not the default. They cluster in the most in-demand parts of the market rather than showing up everywhere.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Washington County, VT area, through May 2026.

Are home prices going up or down in Washington County, VT?

In Washington County, VT, the typical home sold for $400,000 during May 2026. That is 3% higher than the same stretch a year ago, so prices are up.

Over the last 35 months the typical sale price in Washington County, VT went from $375,000 to $400,000 — up 7%.

The high point was $445,000, reached in October 2025. Today's typical sale is 10% below that.

Measured by size, homes in Washington County, VT are selling for about $236 per square foot. Price per square foot is the fairer comparison when the mix of what sells shifts from month to month — a run of big houses can push the typical price up without anything actually getting more expensive.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Washington County, VT area, through May 2026.

Is Washington County, VT a buyer's market or a seller's market?

Washington County, VT is a balanced market right now. There are 249 homes for sale, and at the current pace of sales it would take about 5.0 months to sell all of them.

The rule of thumb agents use: under three months of homes for sale favors sellers, over five months favors buyers, and in between is a fair fight. Washington County, VT sits at 5.0.

Buyers and sellers are about evenly matched right now. The typical home took 66 days to go under contract, and 16% of sales closed above the asking price.

The number of homes for sale is 11% higher than a year ago. More choice for buyers means more competition between sellers.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Washington County, VT area, through May 2026.

Are sellers cutting prices in Washington County, VT?

In Washington County, VT, 23% of the homes on the market cut their asking price during May 2026 — roughly 2 in every 10 listings. A year earlier it was 17%, so more sellers are cutting now.

A price cut means a home was listed, did not sell at that number, and the seller lowered it. It is the clearest sign of the gap between what sellers are asking and what buyers will pay, and it shows up months before it shows up in sale prices.

Cutting is more common than it was a year ago — up about 6 points. That usually means asking prices have run ahead of what buyers are willing to do.

The other side of the same market: 16% of homes here sold for MORE than the asking price. Read the two together: the well-priced homes still move, the ambitious ones do not.

Over the last 35 months the highest this got was 28%, in October 2023.

If you are selling here, the number to take from this is that about 2 in 10 of your competitors got their first price wrong. If you are buying, a home that has already been cut once is a seller who has accepted that the market disagreed with them.

One caution: price cuts are seasonal everywhere. Listings that sit through the summer get cut in the fall. That is why the honest comparison is to the same month a year ago, which is the one we show, rather than to last month.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Washington County, VT area, through May 2026.

Is the housing market slowing down in Washington County, VT?

50 homes sold in Washington County, VT during May 2026, against 53 in the same months a year earlier. Washington County, VT is a small enough market that a year-to-year swing this size is as likely to be luck of the draw as a real shift, so we do not call a direction.

This page is about how many homes changed hands, not what they cost. The two move separately: prices are set by the homes that did sell, and volume tells you how many people managed to transact at all. A market can hold its prices while activity quietly drains out of it.

Here is the honest problem with Washington County, VT. It records 50 sales in a window and 53 a year earlier. On counts that small, a difference of a dozen houses reads as a double-digit percentage, and a dozen houses is well within the range that a couple of delayed closings can produce. Plenty of sites will print that percentage for you. We would rather tell you the count is real and the trend is not measurable.

The longer view, all measured over the May window so the season is held constant: 36 homes sold two years ago, 53 last year, 50 now. We report those three counts as published and draw no trend through them, for the reason above.

What is on the shelf next to what is selling: 249 homes were on the market in Washington County, VT, and 50 sold. At that pace it would take about 5.0 months to clear them all. Buyers and sellers are about evenly matched right now.

Every comparison on this page is to the SAME calendar months a year earlier, never to last month. Home sales roughly double between January and May in most of the country, so a month-over-month reading would tell you about the season and nothing about the market.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Washington County, VT area, through May 2026.

What is the average home price in Washington County, VT?

The typical home in Washington County, VT sold for $400,000 during May 2026. That is the median — half of the homes that sold went for more than that, half for less.

Almost everyone searches for the "average" price, and almost every published figure — including this one — is the median instead. The difference matters. A true average is dragged upward by a handful of very expensive sales, so in a metro with a few multi-million-dollar homes it can sit well above anything an ordinary buyer would ever pay. The median is simply the sale in the middle of the list, which is why it is the number that describes a normal home.

Homes currently on the market in Washington County, VT are asking a median of $450,000. Do not read the gap between that and $400,000 as a discount you can expect to negotiate. Those are two different sets of homes — one is what sold, the other is what has not sold yet — and asking prices skew high precisely because the homes priced too high are the ones still sitting there. The honest measure is what each home got against its own asking price, and in Washington County, VT that came to 97%.

Measured by size rather than by house, homes in Washington County, VT are selling for about $236 per square foot. That is the fairer comparison when you are weighing one neighborhood against another, or this year against last, because the typical price moves whenever the mix of what happens to sell shifts — a run of large houses lifts it without anything actually getting more expensive.

This page is about what a home costs, not which way that is heading. For the record, the figure is 3% higher than the same stretch a year ago.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Washington County, VT area, through May 2026.

How many homes are for sale in Washington County, VT?

There are 249 homes for sale in Washington County, VT as of May 2026, 11% more than a year ago.

131 homes came on the market during May 2026, and 50 sold. More homes are arriving than leaving, so the number for sale is building.

At this pace it would take about 5.0 months to sell every home currently listed. Buyers and sellers are about evenly matched right now.

A count like this moves with the season everywhere in the country — listings build through spring and thin out over the winter. The number worth watching is how it compares to the same month a year ago, which is why we show that too.

Source: Redfin's published market data for the Washington County, VT area, through May 2026.