+20%
more per square foot for a single-level home in Camas
$366 vs $304, 106 and 257 resale sales
22 days
median time to an accepted offer for a two-story home built by 2010, 2,200+ sq ft
144 sales, at 98% of ask
25 of 124
resale homes for sale in Camas are single-level
20% of the market, as of 2026-09-14
In Camas this year, buyers paid $366 a square foot for a home with everything on one floor and $304 for one with stairs. That is a 20% premium, and it survives every control we put on it: same era, same size, the gap is still 16%.
It isn’t a Camas quirk. The same gap shows up in every Clark County market we have pulled, and it points in one direction: the homes people are trying to move into are scarce, and the homes they are moving out of are not. This study is about what that means if you own the second kind.
Median closed price per finished square foot, detached resale, builder inventory excluded. “Single-level” includes main-level-living plans with a bonus room upstairs. Premium is single-level over multi-level.
The home you’d be leaving sells
The worry is usually the other way around: that a two-story family home from the late nineties or 2000s is what nobody wants anymore. The sales say otherwise.
- They are 40% of everything that sold. 144 two-story homes built by 2010 with 2,200 square feet or more closed in Camas in the last twelve months, at a median $888,500.
- They sold in 22 days, at 98% of ask. Not a discount market. Priced at the closed comps, a home like that is under contract inside a month.
- The buyer is a family moving up. Which is the part of the market that has the most people in it and the fewest good homes to choose from.
The home you’d be buying is the scarce one
25 of the 124 resale homes for sale in Camas right now are single-level, and the ones that sell go in 28 days. The median single-level home for sale is asking $925,000. That scarcity is the premium, and it cuts both ways for a downsizer: your home sells into the deepest part of the market, and you buy in the thinnest.
On a 3,100-square-foot two-story, the difference between the two numbers is about $191,000: roughly $909,000 for what you’d sell, $1,133,000 for the same square footage on one floor. Most people making this move buy smaller, which is where the equity comes from. But the order of operations matters more than the arithmetic: the scarce home has to be found first, and the deep-market home has to be priced to close on a schedule.
If you’ve been thinking about one level
- 1
Know your number before you look.
A two-story Camas home from this era has a well-defined price: 144 closed comps say so. Knowing it to within a few percent is what lets you write an offer on the right single-level home the week it appears.
- 2
Buy first, or sell with a contingency you can afford.
Single-level inventory is thin and moves in 28 days. Selling first and hoping is how people end up renting for a year. The math on your side of the trade supports the other order.
- 3
Price to the closed comps, once.
Homes like yours that priced right went under contract in about 7 days at full ask this year. The ones that left room to negotiate took 84 days and gave the room back anyway.
How this was built
Source: RMLS listing data for zip code 98607 and the other markets shown, detached single-family homes only, pulled 2026-09-14. Closed sets cover 2025-09-14 through 2026-09-14. “Resale” excludes listings flagged new, under construction, or proposed. “Single-level” means one story, or a plan with at least 70% of its finished area on the main floor. The controlled premium compares only homes built 2000 or later between 2,000 and 3,800 square feet.
The “two-story family home” profile is two or more levels, built by 2010, 2,200 square feet or more. No addresses, agents, or brokerages are identified anywhere in this study. Market-level detail for Camas is on the Camas market page.