Leland, NC Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Leland, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Leland 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: 556
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $404,957
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $206
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $319,639 and $512,700

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 556 closed sales in Leland over the last six months, with a median closing price of $404,957. 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 $319,639 and $512,700. 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 554 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $178 and $237 per square foot.

Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Leland, NC (September 2026)

The median home price in Leland is $404,957, measured across the 556 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $319,639 and $512,700.

Where Leland sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Leland 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 $319,639 and $512,700. Among the 100 North Carolina markets with a published band, Leland's middle-half spread ($319,639 to $512,700) ranks 38th 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 40th 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 41 days, across 314 Leland closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 38 days, across 268 Leland closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Leland angle

Across 556 closings Resideline tracked in Leland over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $404,957, and the middle half of sales closed between $319,639 and $512,700. The spread is close to typical for the markets we track and leans upward, with more distance between the median and the upper quartile than below it. Practically, that means a conservative number is easier to defend here than an aggressive one, and any resale assumption reaching toward the top of the band should be carried by closings from that upper stretch rather than by a percentage bump.

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 Leland address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Leland, NC
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 3737680
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 556
Median sold price: $404,957
Median sold $/sqft: $206 (554 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 Leland over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.