Sold in August for $22.8 million, a contemporary house on 144 feet of Medina shoreline closed about $11 million below its $33.8 million asking price. Owners listed it in April 2025, and its most recent tax assessment valued the property at about $24.2 million. Built on about half an acre with a private dock, the house covers nearly 7,000 square feet and spent over a year on the market.
Divide the sale price by the frontage and the shoreline works out to about $158,000 per foot. That figure frames Medina showings this season, because shoreline is the line item that moves the price most.
Medina Prices Split Sharply At The Shoreline
Off-water houses in Medina generally trade between $3 million and $6 million. Waterfront estates start near $10 million and climb past $30 million, according to a November 2026 market summary built on MLS and county records.
Listings in Medina carry a median price of $4.7 million, or $1,152 per square foot, and homes have averaged 54 days on the market. Only about 29 single-family homes were listed when the summary was updated. At roughly $3,300 per square foot, the $22.8 million sale cost close to three times that median. Buyers paying the median listing price spend $4.7 million, and the August sale cost nearly five times that.
On the eastern shore of Lake Washington, Medina is compact. It held 2,915 residents in the 2020 census on 1.44 square miles of land, bordered by Clyde Hill and Hunts Point and by water on every other side.
How An Hourly Medina Touring Day Works
Distances inside Medina are short, so the real constraint on a touring day is the crossing from Seattle. State Route 520 carries it over the Evergreen Point floating bridge, which opened in April 2016 and is tolled in both directions.
Private hourly chauffeur service in Seattle from Galaxy Town Car Service starts at $95 for an executive sedan and $120 for an SUV. Wait time between stops is included, the same chauffeur stays with the car all day, and a gratuity is added to every trip. Chauffeurs are licensed and background-checked, and child seats cost $15 each. Its sample itinerary lasts four hours with multiple stops, and at the SUV’s starting rate, that comes to $480 before any extras.
Buyers landing at Sea-Tac need a separate leg of about 17 miles to Bellevue, which the company estimates at 20 to 35 minutes. Galaxy Town Car Service tracks flights in real time and gives domestic pickups 30 free minutes of waiting. Sedan rides to the airport start at $120 from Bellevue, against $115 from downtown Seattle.
Hunts Point Sales Show Where Prices Settle
Next door in Hunts Point, a 7,220-square-foot lakefront house closed at $19.6 million in July, about $2,700 per square foot, and another lakefront house sold for $21.2 million in August. In May, a 17,600-square-foot estate sold for $38 million after asking $85 million in 2022.
Per-foot math cuts both ways. At the Medina rate, each extra 10 feet of shoreline is worth about $1.6 million, which is the kind of number a buyer should hear before stepping onto a dock. Medina’s own sale closed about a third below its list price, while the Hunts Point estate sold for roughly 45 percent of its 2022 ask. Listing prices on Lake Washington estates work as opening positions, and the assessed value and recent comparable sales give buyers a firmer reference point.
Questions To Settle Before The Second Showing
Four questions separate a workable bid from a costly one.
- How many feet of shoreline come with the lot, and how does the asking price break down per foot?
- When did the house first list, and how far has the ask moved since that day?
- How does the asking price compare with the most recent tax assessment?
- Which comparable lakefront sales closed in the last six months, and at what percentage of their asks?
Freshwater Frontage Elsewhere Puts Medina In Context
Medina counts shoreline in feet because the city is a peninsula with only 1.44 square miles of land, and every lot competes for the same narrow edge.
Montana plays by different numbers, and a profile of an island estate on Flathead Lake describes a 24-acre island ringed by over 7,000 feet of private shoreline. That is about 49 times the frontage of the Medina sale, spread across 14 bedrooms in three structures, and the profile lists no price. Scarcity sets Medina prices, and a touring day spent walking the actual frontage shows exactly how much of it a buyer is paying for.
