Search Sehome real estate on our site and find the the right home that will fit your needs.  This is actually a great time to find a Sehome home for sale with more than usual amount of homes on the market, priced fairly well, and interest rates hovering around 5% on 30 year mortgages. Feel free to use our Bellingham neighborhood map search below to find all Sehome area homes for sale.  Contact us if you would like a personal showing of any of the property listings that show up in the Sehome area or anywhere else in Bellingham. 

Closer to campus along N. Garden St and N. Forest St., you’ll find apartments, duplexes and larger older homes that mainly house Western students. Many of these American Four square’s, Victorians, Georgian Manors, Italianates, and Craftsman style Bungalows homes, built around the turn-of-the century, have been converted into duplexes, triplexes and rooming houses for WWU students.

 The center of the neighborhood is called the Sehome Hill Historic District and is recognized by the National Register. This area includes portions of Jersey, Key, Liberty, Mason, Newell, E. Myrtle, E. Laurel, and E. Maple Streets.  Each street corner sign has a quality Historic District sign above it. This part of the Sehome Neighborhood is a little quieter and more family oriented than the rest of the neighborhood.  Most of the exterior of the homes and their unique character and style are still intact.

The Sehome Neighborhood boundary follows along the Sehome Hill Arboretum, then along Bill McDonald Parkway past Samish Way to I-5 and along I-5 to The York Neighborhood.  Then follow along Samish Way and Ellis St to Holly St., Down Holly to State St. and from here south to Boulevard St and then east on Cedar behind Forest & Cedar Park. Finally the boundary follows N Garden St. to E Oak St. and then east to Sehome Hill Arboretum.

The Sehome Neighborhood Parks include two small parks in Pine & Cedar Park and Laurel Park.  Sehome Hill Arboretum offers an alternative outdoor experience with the beauty and tranquility of the Arboretum and its extensive trail system, variety of tree species and even some partial views. Look closely and you’ll see deer, many squirrels and a variety of birds.  The Arboretum is just another great example of the beautiful parks that Bellingham has to offer.

Sehome Village provides convenient shopping with a Haggen supermarket, restaurants, offices and shops. Samish Way is a strip of restaurants, motels, convenience stores and gas stations. A short drive away you can find Fred Meyer Shopping Center. Across Lincoln Street, Lakeway Center features a Cost Cutter grocery, along with other stores and restaurants.

The History of Sehome is that it started out as a coal mine town – The company town that made the bay economy go. Historians say that by 1858 three small communities had been established on Bellingham Bay: Sehome, Whatcom, and Pattle’s Point, which later became Unionville and, subsequently, Bellingham. Pierre B. Cornwall, who owned the Sehome land pushed to consolidate the towns of Sehome and Whatcom. Cornwall even changed the name of his town from Sehome to New Whatcom. In 1890 Whatcom and New Whatcom became just Whatcom.  The towns of Fairhaven and Bellingham incorporated into the town of Fairhaven. On December 28, 1903 the original four towns of Sehome, Whatcom, Bellingham, and Fairhaven had consolidated and officially incorporated as one town under the name of Bellingham.