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As promised, here are the median home prices for the first half of 2008 compared to the first half of 2007, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Some are remarkably close to the monthly numbers I posted yesterday, but others reveal a far different picture.
For some context, the countywide median home price for January through June was $259,950, which is a drop of 5.5 percent compared to the same time period last year, according to MLS numbers. The only markets on the upswing in the first half of the year were Roy and DuPont.
Look for half-yearly sales activity comparisons later this week.
| Area | First Half | Year-over-year change |
| Bonney Lake/Lake Tapps | $299,975 | -4.5% | Browns Point | $318,000 | -2.2% |
| DuPont | $306,702 | +4.0% |
| Graham/Eatonville | $249,975 | -6.5% |
| Fife | $305,000 | -1.0% | Gig Harbor | $350,000 | -4.9% |
| Lakewood | $235,000 | -8.9% | Parkland | $209,475 | -12.7% |
| Puyallup | $255,000 | -8.6% |
| Roy | $263,150 | +5.3% |
| Spanaway | $239,797 | -6.0% | Tacoma, Central | $210,000 | -12.5% |
| Tacoma, North | $289,500 | -4.2% | Tacoma, South | $189,975 | -8.2% |
| Tacoma, Southeast | $193,950 | -5.8% |
| UP/Fircrest | $314,975 | -2.3% |
