Hampstead, NC Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

If you invest in or around Hampstead, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Hampstead sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, as of October 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 249
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $424,900
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $219
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $324,900 and $625,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 249 closed sales in Hampstead over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $424,900. 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 $324,900 and $625,000. 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. 81% of the Hampstead closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 247 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $193 and $256 per square foot.

Figures last updated October 3, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Hampstead, NC (October 2026)

The median home price in Hampstead is $424,900, measured across the 249 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $324,900 and $625,000.

Where Hampstead sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Hampstead over the last 12 months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $324,900 and $625,000. Among the 100 North Carolina markets with a published band, Hampstead's middle-half spread ($324,900 to $625,000) ranks 74th 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 73rd percentile of the 2,230 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of October 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 20 days, across 89 Hampstead closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 38 days, across 57 Hampstead closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Hampstead angle

Hampstead reads as a middle-of-the-road pricing problem with one wrinkle. Across 249 closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, the median closed sale price was $424,900 and the middle half of sales closed between $324,900 and $625,000. The spread is close to typical for the markets we track, but there is more distance above the median than below it, so pulling comps from the upper portion of the band will bias a number high.

Hampstead market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Hampstead ZIP codes: 28443.

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, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR 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 Hampstead address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Hampstead, NC
Geography: Census-designated place, not an incorporated municipality, Census place 3729180
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 249
Median sold price: $424,900
Median sold $/sqft: $219 (247 qualifying)
Property mix: 81% houses
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Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Hampstead over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is.