From October through December of 2019, there were four homes sold, with a median sale price of $446,500 - a 13.6% decrease over the $516,500 median sale price for the same period of the previous year. There were six homes sold in Carnation in the fourth quarter of 2018.
The median sales tax in Carnation for the most recent year with available data, 2016, was $3,504, approximately 0.8% of the median home sale price for the fourth quarter of 2019.
The following table compares Carnation to other King County cities with similar median sales prices in the fourth quarter of 2019:
| City | Oct. - Dec. 2019 Home Sales | Oct. - Dec. 2018 Home Sales | % change (Total Home Sales) | Oct. - Dec. 2019 Median Sales Price | Oct. - Dec. 2018 Median Sales Price | % change (Median Sales Price) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Valley | 60 | 77 | -22.1% | $485,000 | $467,500 | 3.7% |
| Enumclaw (unincorporated) | 24 | 25 | -4% | $477,495 | $529,500 | -9.8% |
| Kent (unincorporated) | 72 | 44 | 63.6% | $462,875 | $406,500 | 13.9% |
| Baring (unincorporated) | 2 | 2 | 0% | $452,250 | $147,500 | 206.6% |
| Black Diamond | 13 | 13 | 0% | $450,000 | $350,000 | 28.6% |
| Carnation | 4 | 6 | -33.3% | $446,500 | $516,500 | -13.6% |
| Kent | 77 | 84 | -8.3% | $432,000 | $388,725 | 11.1% |
| Seattle (unincorporated) | 53 | 42 | 26.2% | $425,000 | $396,000 | 7.3% |
| Des Moines | 45 | 47 | -4.3% | $423,215 | $413,000 | 2.5% |
| Tukwila | 12 | 15 | -20% | $421,000 | $369,000 | 14.1% |
| Milton | 4 | 3 | 33.3% | $420,000 | $400,000 | 5% |
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