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Welcome to the first of what will be a regular weekly article, tracking market activity in Clark County. I started this project with the idea that waiting until monthly market action reports come out, often a week in to the following month, does not provide timely data on what’s happening in the market. I anticipate 2026 to be a year of transition in the real estate market, fueled by a combination of rates potentially dipping down slightly and consumers coming to terms with the fact that we won’t likely see the sub-5% rates that were prevalent in the last 15 years. Regardless of what the market does, I wanted both more timely data and more neighborhood specific information.
I included a quick description of how I pulled this data below, but here are the market stats from 12/31 to 1/7. In future posts I’ll highlight trends and dig more into the details, but for the first few weeks I’m just posting the raw data.
Since this is the first post, I wanted to give a quick explanation of where this data is coming from. Every Wednesday morning, I run a hotsheet report from the RMLS that shows every new listing, back-on-market, pending, and sold property. I also pull a hotsheet for all price changes in the previous 7 days. I put all that information into a spreadsheet and broke it out by RMLS area. Because Clark County is divided into more areas that is practical to provide feedback, I joined areas together to form larger geographic areas to provide more consistent data from week to week. Those areas are:
- Downtown Vancouver / Heights (RMLS Area 11-15)
- Heights Area and East Vancouver (RMLS Area 20-27)
- Camas and Washougal (RMLS Area 31-33)
- Salmon Creek and Felida (RMLS Area 41-44)
- Ridgefield (RMLS Area 50-51)
- Battle Ground and Hockinson (RMLS Area 61-64)
- La Center and other Rural Areas
There are some potential flaws in the data – I chose Wednesday to pull data because listings tending to come on at the end of the week and go pending early in the week. That depends on agents entering data in a timely manner, so there could be pending or closed properties that get missed, but the margin of error should be minimal.
