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

Lillington closes a lot of homes into a narrow band, which makes its median unusually informative: sales over the last 12 months land close together, so the citywide number is a real anchor rather than an average of extremes.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 257
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $299,990
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $151
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $255,500 and $336,509

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 257 closed sales in Lillington over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $299,990. 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 $255,500 and $336,509. 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. 85% of the Lillington 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 255 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $140 and $165 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Lillington, NC (October 2026)

The median home price in Lillington is $299,990, measured across the 257 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $255,500 and $336,509.

Where Lillington sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Lillington 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 $255,500 and $336,509. Among the 100 North Carolina markets with a published band, Lillington's middle-half spread ($255,500 to $336,509) ranks 6th 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 4th 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 77 days, across 195 Lillington closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 35 days, across 199 Lillington closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Lillington angle

Lillington shows one of the tightest quartile bands we track, in the bottom 10%. Across 257 closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, the median closed sale price was $299,990, and the middle half of sales closed between $255,500 and $336,509. When the middle half is packed this closely, the median carries unusual weight for a citywide figure, and your real task is deciding whether the subject belongs to that middle. A number far outside the band is a claim that needs evidence, not a starting assumption.

Lillington market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Lillington ZIP codes: 27546.

From market read to offer price

A tight market makes the next step easier: the citywide anchor sits close to most homes, and a report only has to explain the gap. 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 Lillington 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: Lillington, NC
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 3738220
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 257
Median sold price: $299,990
Median sold $/sqft: $151 (255 qualifying)
Property mix: 85% houses
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Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Lillington over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is.