Is it a buyer's or a seller's market? Six dials, updated monthly — speed, supply and seller behaviour, not just prices.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Coos Bay listings, and the typical home goes pending in 44 days — the market is cooling.
Zillow's own model expects Coos Bay home values to change +0.1% over the year to Sep 2027. A forecast, not a promise — it is revised every month, and Zillow publishes it with that caveat.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$936 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,834 -1%
- $350,574$348,739 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,619 +10%
- $317,120$348,739 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Coos Bay$1,830
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Coos Bay, OR fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Coos Bay, OR rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Coos Bay runs $656/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $912 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,400 a month against $1,744 rent: a $1,830 mortgage payment, plus $196 property tax and $373 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Coos Bay
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,400
- Renting$1,744
- Mortgage only$1,830
Property tax · $196/mo 0.68% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Coos County, OR
Insurance & upkeep · $373/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Coos Bay28.41%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Coos Bay44
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Coos Bay452
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Coos Bay93
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Coos Bay$324,350
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Coos Bay97.38%