Real estate
West Linn home prices by neighborhood, and why the range is so wide
What West Linn homes are actually asking, neighborhood by neighborhood, plus the city-wide closed-sale numbers from the office RMLS pull and why the two figures are not the same thing.
“What do homes cost in West Linn?” sounds like a question with one answer. It has at least two, and mixing them up is how people end up shopping in the wrong price bracket.
Here are both, as of the end of July 2026, along with the neighborhood spread that the city-wide number hides.
First, the two different numbers
What homes are asking. Across active single-family listings in West Linn, the median asking price sits at about $974,950. That is what sellers are currently listing at, refreshed monthly from live listing data.
What homes actually sold for. In our June 2026 RMLS pull, 50 detached homes closed in West Linn at a median sold price of $854,500, with an average of $997,918. Sales ranged from $415,000 to $2,595,000. The typical home went from listed to sold in 12 days, with 3.0 months of inventory on the market.
Those two numbers are roughly $120,000 apart, and that gap is normal. Asking prices skew higher because the homes still sitting on the market include the ones priced ahead of the market. Closed sales tell you what buyers actually agreed to pay. When you are budgeting, the sold number is the more honest anchor. When you are gauging your competition as a buyer, the asking number is what you will be looking at on Zillow tonight.
Oregon does not make closed sale prices public record, which is why the sold figures here come from our own monthly RMLS pull rather than a public site. The June figures cover detached homes only. Attached homes, condominiums, and townhomes are excluded.
The neighborhood spread
Now the part the city-wide number hides. These are median asking prices from active single-family and multi-family listings, by neighborhood, as of the July 2026 data pull.
| Neighborhood | Median asking price |
|---|---|
| Bolton | $699,999 |
| Parker Crest | $759,900 |
| Sunset | $785,000 |
| Marylhurst | $799,925 |
| Hidden Springs | $839,000 |
| Rosemont Summit | $849,900 |
| Willamette | $875,000 |
| Skyline Ridge | $975,000 |
| Robinwood | $1,222,225 |
| Savanna Oaks | $1,275,000 |
| Stafford Hamlet | $2,349,000 |
From Bolton to Stafford Hamlet, that is a spread of more than $1.6 million inside one small city. A buyer who reads “the median West Linn home is around $975,000” and stops there will either write off neighborhoods they could afford, or fall for a house $400,000 past their number.
Six neighborhoods are not in that table. Some had too few active listings in July to publish an honest median, and I would rather show you nothing than a median built on three houses. Ask me and I will pull what is actually listed there right now.
Why the range is that wide
Three things do most of the work.
Lot size and land. Stafford Hamlet and Pete’s Mountain are acreage. You are buying land, not just a house, and the price reflects it. Bolton and Willamette are older, tighter platted lots close to the river.
Age and construction. Robinwood and Savanna Oaks carry more newer and larger construction. Bolton is the historic end of town, with the smaller square footage that comes with it.
What the house sits on. Views, river frontage, and slope all move a number more than buyers expect. Two houses with the same square footage on the same street can be a couple hundred thousand apart because one of them looks at something.
How to actually use these numbers
A median is a midpoint, not a price tag. Half the listings in that neighborhood are above it and half below, and the half below is often where the right house is hiding.
If you are buying, use the neighborhood median to pick where to look, then use the sold figures to set your budget. The asking median tells you what you will be competing against; the sold median tells you what those houses tend to actually trade at.
If you are selling, your neighbor’s asking price is not a comp. It is an opinion until it closes. The number that matters is what similar homes near you actually sold for, and how long they took.
Either way, a city-wide median is the wrong tool for a decision about one house. I pull the specific asking and sold history for any West Linn street you are weighing, and I am glad to do it for you. Reach out any time.