Ocean Isle Beach, NC Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

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

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 246
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $777,500
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $526
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $465,000 and $1,327,500

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 246 closed sales in Ocean Isle Beach over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $777,500. 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 $465,000 and $1,327,500. 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 246 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $376 and $656 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Ocean Isle Beach, NC (September 2026)

The median home price in Ocean Isle Beach is $777,500, measured across the 246 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $465,000 and $1,327,500.

Where Ocean Isle Beach sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Ocean Isle Beach 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 $465,000 and $1,327,500. Among the 100 North Carolina markets with a published band, Ocean Isle Beach's middle-half spread ($465,000 to $1,327,500) ranks 99th 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 96th 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 29 days, across 114 Ocean Isle Beach closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 35 days, across 71 Ocean Isle Beach closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Ocean Isle Beach angle

Ocean Isle Beach carries one of the widest quartile bands we track, in the top 10%. Across 246 closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, the median closed sale price was $777,500, and the middle half of sales closed between $465,000 and $1,327,500. Room above the median is far greater than the room below it, which means a subject sitting in the upper half can be badly under-priced by a citywide median. A handful of well matched closings will carry more weight here than a large loose set.

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 Ocean Isle Beach 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: Ocean Isle Beach, NC
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 3748700
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 246
Median sold price: $777,500
Median sold $/sqft: $526 (246 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 Ocean Isle Beach over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Ocean Isle Beach city limits are not limited to listing-service sales: they also include foreclosure deeds, estate and family transfers, and other off-market sales that portal medians exclude, which is why 12% of the 246 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $847,000.