Fife Heights, WA real estate
Buying or selling a home, condo, or piece of land in Fife Heights? Here is what the community's housing actually looks like, and how to reach Isaac Ortiz about it.
Fife Heights housing snapshot
| Population | 1,508 | |
|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $602,700 | Owner-reported |
| Median household income | $135,156 | |
| Detached houses | 93% | Share of all housing units |
| Townhomes / attached | 0.8% | |
| In buildings of 2+ units | 6.3% | Condos and apartments alike |
| Manufactured homes | 0% | |
| Owner-occupied | 95.4% | |
| Median year built | 1986 | |
| Vacancy rate | 2% |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (2019–2023). Tables B25077, B01003, B25003, B25024, B25035, B19013, B25002. This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.
What the numbers mean for a buyer or seller
The median owner-reported home value in Fife Heights is $602,700.
That is 24% above the Pierce County median of $484,400. Median household income is $135,156, 40% above the county's $96,632.
Fife Heights is almost entirely detached houses - 93% of the housing stock - with only 6.3% in buildings of two or more units. Attached and multi-unit homes of any kind are a small minority of what has been built here.
95.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, which is a high ownership rate and usually means low turnover and tightly held inventory.
Half of Fife Heights's homes were built in 1986 or earlier, putting half the stock in the 1980s-90s era or before.
Fife Heights is 1,508 people, small enough that a handful of sales a year sets the tone for the whole market. Vacancy is 2% - very tight, and a fair warning that anything listed here moves quickly.
Selling in Fife Heights
95.4% of homes here are owner-occupied, so most sales are people moving on rather than investors trading. Buyers in that market are usually comparing your home against a small number of others, and presentation moves the number more than it does in a high-turnover area.
For pricing context, the midpoint of Fife Heights homes is $602,700, and the area sits about 3.2 miles off the Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma spine - usually the first thing a buyer's agent checks when they push back on a list price.
Isaac will tell you what your home is actually likely to bring in Fife Heights and what, if anything, is worth doing first. If the honest answer is that this is not your year to sell, he will say that too.
Talk to Isaac Ortiz about Fife Heights
Isaac Ortiz is a licensed real estate broker with Compass, working Pierce County and the surrounding Puget Sound area. Se habla español. Send a note and he will reply personally.
Or call +1 253-359-5263 or email Isaac.Ortiz@nwret.com.