County median home price: $500,000

Prices rose 19-20% from 2020 in first quarter of 2021 alone   WHATCOM — The housing market ignored winter’s cold weather and turned steaming hot in the first quarter of 2021. In comparison to a year earlier, the median sales price of a Whatcom County home rose 19.1% to $500,000 and Bellingham’s median price soared 20.3%…