11 homes closed in Wrightsville Beach in October, up 120% from October 2025 (5). The middle sale price was $2,065,000, 35.4% higher than a year earlier ($1,525,000). A typical sale took 46 days to go under contract (21 a year ago), and sellers received about 90.9% of their first asking price.
Right now there are 36 homes for sale in Wrightsville Beach and 9 under contract. At the pace of the last 12 months (104 sales, about 9 a month), that is roughly 4.2 months of supply — a balanced market by the usual yardstick, where under four months favors sellers and over six favors buyers. It is not a market where everything sells: 29 listings expired or were withdrawn over the same 12 months, about 22% of all that came off the market, which is why pricing to the record matters more than the asking price down the street.
Where the sales were: Shell Island Resort (11 sold, $455,000 middle), Shore Acres (7 sold, $3,700,000 middle), The Islander Condominiums (5 sold, $1,145,000 middle), Channel Walk (5 sold, $1,475,000 middle), Seapath Towers (5 sold, $1,150,000 middle), Harbor Island (4 sold, $2,137,500 middle) led Wrightsville Beach over the last 12 months.
Of the 32 homes that closed in the last 90 days, the most were over $1M (24); 19% sold for less than $500,000, and 24 sold for more than $1 million.
The full Wrightsville Beach market report has the 12-month detail, including how many listings failed to sell and why. Thinking about selling here? Pull your property's MLS record to see the closed, pending and failed listings around it, with a CMA built from the record.
