1,271 homes closed in Southeastern NC in October, down 10.4% from October 2025 (1,418). The middle sale price was $375,115, in line with a year earlier ($360,000). A typical sale took 41 days to go under contract, and sellers received about 96.5% of their first asking price.
Right now there are 5,800 homes for sale in Southeastern NC and 2,109 under contract. At the pace of the last 12 months (17,357 sales, about 1446 a month), that is roughly 4 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 It is not a market where everything sells: 5,687 listings expired or were withdrawn over the same 12 months, about 25% of all that came off the market, which is why pricing to the record matters more than the asking price down the street.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: St James (251 sold, $680,000 middle), Brunswick Plantation (231 sold, $360,000 middle), Brunswick Forest (205 sold, $586,850 middle), Riverlights (168 sold, $539,500 middle), Sidbury Station (139 sold, $405,449 middle), Sea Trail Plantation (135 sold, $540,860 middle) led Southeastern NC over the last 12 months.
Of the 4,062 homes that closed in the last 90 days, the most were $300K–$500K (1,652); 70% sold for less than $500,000, and 279 sold for more than $1 million.
The full Southeastern NC 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.
