NE Seattle condos and townhomes near light rail generally run $400,000 to $950,000. Older condos start around $400,000. Newer townhomes near Northgate Station sit in the mid $600,000s to mid $800,000s, and townhomes within a short walk of Roosevelt Station reach the mid $900,000s. Attached homes are the realistic entry point on this corridor.

That gap between a $400,000 condo and a $950,000 townhome is wide enough that a single number does nobody any good. So here is the breakdown by station, by housing type, and by the length of the walk, with sources and dates attached.

NE Seattle Condos and Townhomes Near Light Rail: The Short Answer

These are the working bands we use week to week. They are ranges we adjust from closed sales, not quotes on any one unit.

• Older condos near Roosevelt Station: roughly $400,000 to the high $600,000s, mostly one and two bedroom units in buildings that predate the station

• Condos near Northgate Station: roughly $400,000 to $700,000 on recent asking prices, including newer units at the redevelopment

• Townhomes near Northgate Station: mid $600,000s through the mid $800,000s, with the newest product asking into the $900,000s

• Townhomes near Roosevelt Station: high $700,000s to the mid $900,000s, and Roosevelt's four active townhome listings recently carried a median asking price near $900,000

• For contrast, detached houses: high $700,000s to low $1.1M in Northgate, high $900,000s to low $1.3M in Roosevelt

What Do NE Seattle Condos and Townhomes Near Light Rail Actually Cost?

Start with the wider market, because attached homes are behaving differently from houses this year. The NWMLS June 2026 snapshot put the King County median sale price at $889,000, down 2.7% from a year earlier. Active listings hit 7,405, a 16.9% jump in supply.

Condo listings climbed faster than that. Active condo inventory across the county rose roughly 40% year over year, more than double the increase in the market as a whole. More choice on the attached side is the single most useful thing a buyer can know right now.

Zoom to the two ZIP codes that hold this corridor and the split gets obvious. In 98115, which covers Roosevelt, Maple Leaf, and Wedgwood, a recent monthly read put the median sale price at about $1,000,000. That is down 2.2% year over year, at roughly $558 per square foot. In 98125, which covers Northgate and Pinehurst, the July 2026 median ran about $738,000 on a median of 12 days on market.

Those medians blend everything, houses included. NE Seattle condos and townhomes near light rail sit well below both figures. That is exactly why buyers priced out of detached houses keep landing here. Our NE Seattle mid-year market report covers the detached side of the same picture.

Roosevelt Station: What Condos and Townhomes Cost Near NE Seattle Light Rail

Roosevelt Station sits underground at NE 67th Street and 12th Avenue NE and opened in October 2021. It is the more expensive of the two stations we cover, and the reason is not the train. It is the village around it.

Townhomes near Roosevelt Station

Newer townhomes here run the high $700,000s to the mid $900,000s. A three-level townhome on 12th Avenue NE, a few blocks north of the station entrance, closed at $755,000 in May 2026. Another Roosevelt-area townhome closed at $698,000 the same month. Recent active listings have asked closer to $900,000, which tells you the ask and the close are not the same conversation this year.

Most of this product went up in the decade around the station opening. Some of it is careful infill on a single lot. Some of it is a five or six unit row that reads very differently in person than in photos. We say that plainly because the price bands do not distinguish between the two and your eyes will.

Condos near Roosevelt Station

Older condos are the quiet value story on this corridor, running from about $400,000 to the high $600,000s. These are one and two bedroom units in buildings that mostly predate the station. Their location advantage was accidental, and the pricing has not fully caught up to it.

What you are buying at that number is the walk. Whole Foods at Roosevelt Square, coffee at Mr West, dinner at Kid Bistro, and a platform that reaches downtown in roughly 13 to 15 minutes. Our Roosevelt Square living guide walks the NE 65th village block by block. The full Roosevelt buyer's guide covers the detached stock east of 15th Avenue NE.

Bands are a starting point. Watching real units is better. Browse current NE Seattle listings, filter to condos and townhomes, and track what goes pending near each station for a few weeks. The pattern will teach you more than any median.

Northgate Station: The Lower-Priced End of NE Seattle Condos and Townhomes Near Light Rail

Northgate Station opened the same month as Roosevelt, at NE 103rd Street just east of I-5. It sits next to the Northgate Transit Center and the redeveloped mall site, and it is the cheaper end of this corridor by a meaningful margin. Of all the NE Seattle condos and townhomes near light rail, the ones clustered here carry the lowest numbers.

Townhomes near Northgate Station

Townhomes here run the mid $600,000s through the mid $800,000s, with the newest and largest units asking into the $900,000s. That is roughly $100,000 below the equivalent Roosevelt product for a unit that is often newer and frequently closer to a platform.

The walkshed is genuinely good. The Kraken Community Iceplex, ground-floor retail, and several apartment blocks sit within two blocks of the station. The John Lewis Memorial Bridge over I-5 carries North Seattle College and the western blocks to the platform on foot. Our Northgate buyer's guide has the fuller neighborhood read.

Condos near Northgate Station

Condo asking prices near Northgate have recently spanned $400,000 to $700,000. That covers older buildings on the surrounding blocks as well as newer units delivered with the redevelopment. It is the lowest genuine entry point to ownership anywhere in the neighborhoods we cover.

The honest caveat is that Northgate is still under construction in places. Some blocks feel finished, others have cranes overhead, and a unit that sounds quiet on a Tuesday tour may not be on a Saturday. Walk it twice before you write.

Why Condos Cost Less Than Townhomes Near NE Seattle Light Rail

Among NE Seattle condos and townhomes near light rail, the gap between the two product types is not about quality. It is about what you own and what you pay monthly to own it.

A condo is an air-rights purchase. You own the interior. The association owns the roof, the siding, and usually the grounds, and your dues carry that burden along with water and sewer in many buildings. Higher dues, lower purchase price, no stairs, no yard.

A townhome is a fee-simple purchase on a small or zero-lot parcel. Dues are lower or occasionally nonexistent. You get three levels and a garage or tuck-under parking, and the roof is your problem when it goes. Higher purchase price, lower monthly, more square footage, more maintenance.

Most buyers we walk through this pick on lifestyle rather than spreadsheet. If you travel often and want to lock the door and leave, the condo wins. If you work from home three days a week and need a room with a door on it, the townhome wins. Payment math belongs with a mortgage advisor and we are glad to make that introduction.

How Much Is the Walk to the Station Worth?

Enough to shape the price of NE Seattle condos and townhomes near light rail, and only inside a fairly small ring. The premium concentrates within about a ten-minute walk of a platform and drops off quickly past it.

Inside that ring the commute is genuinely transit-first. Roosevelt reaches the University of Washington in roughly 4 to 6 minutes, downtown in 13 to 15, and SeaTac in about 50 without a transfer. Northgate reaches UW in roughly 8 to 10, downtown in 16 to 18, and SeaTac in about 55. Trains run every 8 to 10 minutes at peak and every 12 to 15 off-peak.

Past a twelve-minute walk you are looking at Route 67, an e-bike, or a drive to the Northgate garage. The ownership experience changes even though the map barely does. We will tell you the real walking time from a specific address rather than the one the mapping app promises. The two disagree often enough to matter.

Quick Facts: NE Seattle Condos and Townhomes Near Light Rail

• Stations covered: Roosevelt Station at NE 67th and 12th Ave NE, Northgate Station at NE 103rd, both opened October 2021

• Condo working band: about $400,000 to the high $600,000s near Roosevelt, about $400,000 to $700,000 near Northgate

• Townhome working band: mid $600,000s to mid $800,000s near Northgate, high $700,000s to mid $900,000s near Roosevelt

• Recent Roosevelt comp: a 12th Avenue NE townhome closed at $755,000 in May 2026, another closed at $698,000 that month

• 98115 median (Roosevelt, Maple Leaf, Wedgwood): about $1,000,000, down 2.2% year over year, roughly $558 per square foot

• 98125 median (Northgate, Pinehurst): about $738,000 on a July 2026 read, with a median 12 days on market

• King County context: $889,000 median in June 2026, down 2.7%, on 7,405 active listings, up 16.9% per NWMLS

• Condo supply: county active condo listings up roughly 40% year over year, more than double the overall increase

Attached Versus Detached: The Math for NE Seattle Buyers

Here is the trade in plain numbers. A townhome near Northgate Station in the mid $700,000s puts you against detached houses on the same blocks. Those start in the high $700,000s and run to the low $1.1M range. On paper the entry prices nearly touch.

They stop touching once you move a mile east or south. A detached house in Roosevelt runs the high $900,000s to low $1.3M. Wedgwood and Ravenna both cluster near $1.1M. Maple Leaf sits around $850,000, the closest detached market to attached pricing anywhere in NE Seattle. That is why so many of our buyers tour a Maple Leaf bungalow and a Roosevelt townhome on the same afternoon.

What NE Seattle condos and townhomes near light rail actually buy you, beyond the commute, is newer systems. A 2018 townhome does not have knob-and-tube wiring, a buried oil tank, or an unlined side sewer. A 1948 rambler might have all three. That is a real financial difference that never shows up in a median, and it is worth more than most first-time buyers expect. Our first-time buyer playbook gets into how to weigh it.

How to Check NE Seattle Condo and Townhome Prices Yourself

You can do most of this without us, and we would rather you arrive informed. Pull the Redfin Roosevelt housing market page and the Redfin Northgate page for direction. Then read the NWMLS monthly snapshot for county inventory and closed sales.

Then do the part that settles a number. Filter sold attached homes from the last 90 days within a half mile of the station. Read three fields on every result: HOA dues, year built, and parking. On NE Seattle condos and townhomes near light rail, those three explain most of the spread between two units that look identical in photos.

One more habit worth building. Compare the sold price to the original list price, not just to the neighborhood median. In a year with 17% more county inventory, that gap tells you whether a building is priced to the market or priced to 2025. Buyers who lost homes in past bidding rounds should also read our guide to winning NE Seattle multiple offers without overpaying. The well-priced attached listings still draw a crowd.

What NE Seattle Condos and Townhomes Near Light Rail Mean for Your Budget

At a $500,000 ceiling you are shopping older condos, and mostly near Northgate. Those are real homes on real blocks with a train two minutes from the door. The tradeoff you accept is an older building and a monthly dues line.

At $750,000 the whole corridor opens up. Northgate townhomes, the better Roosevelt condos, and detached ramblers west of Northgate Station all fit. This is the budget where the choice genuinely becomes lifestyle rather than availability.

At $950,000 you are choosing between the best townhome near Roosevelt Station and a detached house in Maple Leaf or Northgate. We will walk both with you on the same day, because that comparison cannot be made from a listing page. Investors weighing the rental side should start with our NE Seattle investment property guide.

And when the unit you love only works on paper, we will say so. We are more likely to try to talk you out of a home than into one, which is a strange thing for an agent to advertise and an honest one.

Want these bands applied to one building or one address instead of a whole corridor? Reach out through our contact page and we will put together a comparable-sales read on the specific condo, townhome, or budget you are weighing.

Frequently Asked Questions About NE Seattle Condos and Townhomes Near Light Rail

What do condos and townhomes near NE Seattle light rail cost in 2026?

Our working bands run roughly $400,000 to the high $600,000s for older condos, and the mid $600,000s to the mid $900,000s for townhomes, depending on which station you are near. Northgate sits at the lower end of both ranges and Roosevelt at the upper end. A townhome on 12th Avenue NE near Roosevelt Station closed at $755,000 in May 2026, which is a fair marker for a newer three-level unit within a short walk of the platform.

Why are Northgate condos cheaper than Roosevelt condos when both sit on the same line?

Land value and walkability, not train access. Roosevelt Station sits inside a tight commercial village at NE 65th Street where you can reach a grocery store, coffee, and dinner on foot, and the surrounding blocks carry Roosevelt High School demand. Northgate Station sits inside a redevelopment that is still filling in, with more attached supply delivering at once. Recent reads put the 98125 median near $738,000 against roughly $1,000,000 in 98115.

Is a condo or a townhome the better buy near NE Seattle light rail?

It depends on how you weigh monthly dues against square footage. Condos cost less up front, carry higher HOA dues that usually cover the building envelope and often water and sewer, and give you a single level with no stairs. Townhomes cost more up front, carry lower dues, and give you three levels, a garage or tuck-under parking, and control over your own roof and siding decisions on many newer projects.

How much does the walk to the station actually change the price?

The premium concentrates inside about a ten-minute walk and fades quickly past it. Inside that ring, buyers pay for a genuinely transit-first routine, since Roosevelt Station reaches downtown in roughly 13 to 15 minutes and the University of Washington in about 4 to 6. Past a twelve-minute walk you are usually looking at a connecting bus, an e-bike, or a drive to a garage, and the pricing reflects that.

Are NE Seattle condos and townhomes near light rail a good investment?

The rental demand case is real, with the University of Washington one to three stops away, UW Medical Center staff riding the line, and North Seattle College anchoring the Northgate side. The supply case is the counterweight, because attached inventory near both stations keeps delivering. We run the actual numbers on a specific unit rather than the neighborhood, and we send financing and tax questions to a mortgage advisor and a CPA respectively.

Where can I check NE Seattle condo and townhome prices myself?

Start with the Redfin neighborhood pages for Roosevelt and Northgate for direction, then read the NWMLS monthly snapshot for King County inventory and closed sales. For a decision-grade number, filter sold attached homes from the last 90 days within a half mile of the station, then read the HOA dues, the year built, and the parking situation on each one. Those three fields explain most of the spread.

Price bands current through July 2026 and worth rechecking each quarter. Reach out through our contact page for a comparable-sales read on a specific NE Seattle condo, townhome, or building.

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