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Charleston Housing Market Dashboard

Real-time Lowcountry housing data across 8 metro cities. Updated monthly with median sale prices, days on market, inventory, mortgage rates, and Barry's monthly take.

Updated August 11, 2026
Next refresh: September 15, 2026
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Market Temperature
WARM
Prices up, but demand is slowing beneath the surface
Price Cuts
27.7%
Share of active listings with a price cut (Jul)
Median sale price (May)
$465K
▲ +3.3% YoY
Days to pending (Jun)
40
▲ +13 days YoY
Active listings (Jul)
4,212
▲ +9.1% YoY
30-yr fixed mortgage
6.69%
▲ +0.06% YoY
Median sale price trend: $450K (Jun 2025) to $465K (May 2026).
Source: Zillow Research (metro-level median sale price), pulled August 11, 2026
Barry's Take · August 2026
Charleston is telling two stories. Prices are still up 3.3% year-over-year, but underneath, demand is slowing fast — days-to-pending jumped from 27 to 40 in twelve months and inventory is up 9%. Mount Pleasant, North Charleston, and Summerville are still printing 5–7% gains, so buy where the demand is provable, underwrite longer sale timelines, and remember your rehab dollar carries further in North Charleston than anywhere near the peninsula. And with SC now at zero points, your carry math just got better.
— Barry Luchtel, Kayak Capital

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CityMedian PriceYoYMedian DOMTemp
Charleston (city)$585K+0.0%37WARM
Mount Pleasant$870K+5.4%HOT
North Charleston$320K+7.4%HOT
Summerville$388K+5.0%38HOT
Isle of Palms$1.89MWARM

West Ashley, James Island, Kiawah Island, and Daniel Island aren't tracked as separate cities in Zillow's dataset — deals there are covered by the Charleston metro figures above.

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Sources & methodology

Median sale prices (metro and city) and days to pending are from Zillow Research. Active listings and price-cut share are from Realtor.com Research for the Charleston–North Charleston metro. Each figure is labeled with its data month — sale-side data lags listing-side data by 1–2 months, which is normal.

Note (Aug 2026): this dashboard moved from Redfin Data Center to Zillow + Realtor.com after Redfin paused monthly data publication. Historical trend values were restated on the Zillow basis, so levels differ from earlier editions — most visibly the metro median, which Zillow measures lower than Redfin did.

30-year fixed mortgage rate from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis — FRED series MORTGAGE30US.

Market Temperature is a composite indicator: 40% price-trend direction, 30% inventory direction, 30% DOM trend. HOT = sellers have strong leverage, multiple offers common. WARM = balanced market with seller's edge. COOL = buyer's market or softening.

Price Cuts = share of active listings that have had at least one price reduction (Realtor.com). Above ~25% signals strong buyer negotiating leverage. Days to pending = median days from listing to accepted offer (Zillow) — a faster-reacting demand signal than closed-sale DOM.

Year-over-year (YoY) compares this month vs the same month one year ago. Trend chart shows 12-month rolling median sale price.

Dashboard refreshed by Kayak Capital around the 15th of each month, after Zillow and Realtor.com post the prior month's data.

Data sources: Redfin Data Center · Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
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