7 homes closed in Holden Beach in October, down 12.5% from October 2025 (8). The middle sale price was $1,275,000, 9% lower than a year earlier ($1,401,479). A typical sale took 81 days to go under contract (62 a year ago), and sellers received about 96% of their first asking price.
Right now there are 51 homes for sale in Holden Beach and 8 under contract. At the pace of the last 12 months (112 sales, about 9 a month), that is roughly 5.5 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 It is not a market where everything sells: 55 listings expired or were withdrawn over the same 12 months, about 33% of all that came off the market, which is why pricing to the record matters more than the asking price down the street.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: Harbor Acres (12 sold, $893,000 middle), Holden Beach West (7 sold, $1,275,000 middle), Heritage Harbor (6 sold, $777,500 middle), Holden S E (4 sold, $954,500 middle), Colonial Beach (4 sold, $1,230,000 middle), Holden Beach Harbor (4 sold, $850,000 middle) led Holden Beach over the last 12 months.
Of the 25 homes that closed in the last 90 days, the most were $750K–$1M (11); 8% sold for less than $500,000, and 9 sold for more than $1 million.
The full Holden 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.
