The median home in Beaufort County listed for $600,509 in April, up 2.7% from the previous month's $585,000, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.
Compared to April 2024, the median home list price decreased 5% from $633,000.
The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Beaufort County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.blufftontoday.com.
Beaufort County's median home was 335 square feet, listed at $0.24 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 7.4% from April 2024.
Listings in Beaufort County moved steadily, at a median 57 days listed compared to the April national median of 50 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 61 days on the market. Around 746 homes were newly listed on the market in April, a 6% increase from 704 new listings in April 2024.
The median home prices issued by Realtor.com may exclude many, or even most, of a market's homes. The price and volume represent only single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales.
Across the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton metro area, median home prices rose to $579,200, slightly higher than a month earlier. The median home had 412 square feet, at a list price of $0.23 per square foot.
In South Carolina, median home prices were $369,000, a slight increase from March. The median South Carolina home listed for sale had 11,993 square feet, with a price of $0.21 per square foot.
Throughout the United States, the median home price was $431,250, a slight increase from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 467,514 square feet, with a price of $0.18 per square foot.
The median home list price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. Experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market than the average list price, which would mean taking the sum of all listing prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high price.
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