Carolina Beach, NC Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For
What homes actually sell for in Carolina Beach: a median closing price of $668,250 across 214 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.
If you invest in or around Carolina Beach, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Carolina Beach sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of September 2026.
The snapshot
- •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 214
- •Median sold price, last 6 months: $668,250
- •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $436
- •Middle half of sales closed between: $520,000 and $875,000
What the numbers say
Resideline tracked 214 closed sales in Carolina Beach over the last six months, with a median closing price of $668,250. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $520,000 and $875,000. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. Across the 213 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $369 and $539 per square foot.
Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.
Median home price in Carolina Beach, NC (September 2026)
The median home price in Carolina Beach is $668,250, measured across the 214 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $520,000 and $875,000.
Where Carolina Beach sale prices land
Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Carolina Beach over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $520,000 and $875,000. Among the 100 North Carolina markets with a published band, Carolina Beach's middle-half spread ($520,000 to $875,000) ranks 49th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 50th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.
How long a sale takes here
- •Listed to under contract: a median of 28 days, across 109 Carolina Beach closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
- •Contract to closing: a median of 34 days, across 65 Carolina Beach closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
The Carolina Beach angle
Carolina Beach gave us 214 tracked closings in the last six months, a median closed sale price of $668,250, and a middle half between $520,000 and $875,000. The spread is close to typical for the markets we track, which is a useful fact on its own: the middle of this market is not unusually scattered even though the price level is high. The band leans upward, with more distance above the median than below it, so the ceiling here sits further from the center than the floor does.
From market read to offer price
A market read is the backdrop. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.
And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.
Run any Carolina Beach address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.
Cite this
Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:
Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Carolina Beach, NC
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 3710500
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 214
Median sold price: $668,250
Median sold $/sqft: $436 (213 qualifying)
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The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.
Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Carolina Beach over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median home price in Carolina Beach?
The median sold price in Carolina Beach over the last 6 months is $668,250, measured across 214 closings Resideline tracked.
How many homes sold in Carolina Beach last month?
Resideline tracked 33 closed sales in Carolina Beach in August 2026, out of 214 closings tracked over the last six months. These are tracked samples of market activity, not official county totals.
What is the typical sale price range in Carolina Beach?
The middle half of Carolina Beach sales over the last six months closed between $520,000 and $875,000, with a median of $668,250.
What is the typical price per square foot in Carolina Beach?
Among qualifying Carolina Beach closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $436, measured across 213 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.
Does the Carolina Beach median describe a typical home there?
It describes the center of what closed over six months, which is not quite the same thing. Half of the tracked closings landed above it and half below, so it is a real center of gravity for the market. Whether it describes a typical home depends on how uniform the local stock is, and this page cannot answer that for a specific street or building. Price from closings that share the subject's property type and size, and use the median to check that the result is not somewhere improbable.
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