Federal Way 98003

King County, WA · 8,498 properties · updated 7/26/2026

Should you buy here?buyer-timing lens

20affordability /100

Buyer leverage is seller slight; weigh payment burden and the 3-lens valuation before bidding.

Payment burden

49.9%

severe

Days on market

daily

Price cuts

21.9%

of active

Valuation

+220.5%

vs assessor

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/100

Weak

stable · seller slight · prices rising year-over-year.

Price trend

Affordability

Valuation

Economic health

Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.

Buyer / sellerbuyer-timing lens

Balanced Market

Needs 39.9% correction for affordability

DOM: 34d (falling) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly

Score Components

Payment Burden (25%)100

Valuation Gap (25%)10

Supply & Demand (20%)70

Buy vs Rent (15%)100

Cancellation Rate (10%)0

Days on Market (5%)40

Balanced market in 98003. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Payment burden: 48.8% of median income. A 28% price correction needed to reach 30% affordability threshold. Median days on market: 34. Renting is approximately 110% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 25.2).

Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.

STABLESELLER SLIGHT

Market is holding steady with balanced conditions. Sellers hold a slight edge.

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Market snapshoteach number, once

Median price

$569,819

▴ 0.6% YoY

Days on market

daily · zip_data

Median rent

$1,863

ZORI

Investor score

37/100

cash-flow lens

Active listings

90-day

Valuation3 lenses, different anchors

vs assessor

+220.5%

Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.

Avg assessor$1,826,550

county CAMA · properties_v

vs income

—

Fair-value model not available for this market.

fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage

vs county comps

+67.6%

County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.

King+67.6%

Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap

Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.

Pricing detail

Price / sqft—

Price-to-income8.0×

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How 98003 ranks in WA

percentile vs all Washington ZIPs · n=581

Market velocity51%

Supply tightness82%

Affordability15%

Investment yield61%

Appreciation62%

Affordability, supply & momentum

38SUPPLY

BalancedSupply Tightness

Supply and demand are roughly even — standard negotiation dynamics.

Months of Supply8.0 mo

Days on Market26d

Inv vs History+42.7%

Listing Density--

Affordability — payment burden

Monthly payment (P&I)$2,945

Payment burden49.9%

Median income · ZIP$70,800

Mortgage rate6.71% · 30yr

Total monthly own$3,514

Monthly rent$1,863

Market dynamics

Price cut %21.9%

Momentumstable

LeverageSELLER SLIGHT

Months of supply8

Sales (90d)0

Investment analysis

Median rent$1,863

Price-to-rent25.2

Est. cap rate2.6%

Buy vs rentfavors renting

Livability

Walk score10

Transit score16

Bike score—

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Price bandsmix-shift

Price Bands — the median behind the median

A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in King.

Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier

1 tier had too few sales in this ZIP and are shown at county or metro level — see the stamp on each row. 6 tiers had too few sales at every level and are left blank rather than estimated.

Tier	Median	$/sqft	Sales	Share	Source
Under $250k	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$250k–$500k	$400k	$202	12	80.0%	COUNTY · King, WA
$500k–$750k	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$750k–$1M	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1M–$1.5M	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1.5M–$2M	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$2M+	—	—	—	—	fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
All sales (the headline median)	$412k	$210	15	100%	COUNTY · King, WA

No mix-shift history for this area. no geography from this ZIP up to metro has 8+ quarters of 10+ recorded arms-length sales across at least 4 price tiers. Trends are drawn only from recorded transactions; the last-sale snapshot above cannot carry a time series, because a property that sold twice keeps only its latest sale — which drags the history upward through the tiers and would invent the very mix shift this section exists to test for.

National context — not local

NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the West census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 98003.

United States
West

Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.

Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.

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King County contextmacro · jobs · debt · migration

ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.

ZIP 98003→King County, WA

12-Month Direction

-17Moderate Deterioration

Confidence

100%

DeterioratingStableImproving

BuildersLens Market Intelligence

Market Score

35· Weak

Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.

Payment Burden28

43.3%

severe

Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15

Buy vs Rent0

2.644x

rent advantage

Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15

Valuation3

+67.6%

overvalued

Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15