Outer Banks

As of January 8th, 2024, there were 830 active listings in Dare and Currituck counties, which is 7% less than a year ago (888 active listings as of January 6th, 2023). With growing interest rates (+1.00%) and a smaller number of homes (-33%), condos/townhouses (-8%) and vacant land (-27%) sold in 2023, the inventory remained low and helped sellers to continue taking advantage of the real estate market...

Despite the significant interest rate increase in 2022 (+4.25%), Outer Banks still remained a SELLERS market. Even with fewer residential properties sold (28% fewer homes and 16% fewer condos), the demand remained strong and drove the sales price up to 16% higher over the previous year. It took only about a month for a single-family home, condo, or townhouse to go under contract last year! Meanwhile,...

In 2021 Outer Banks remained a STRONG SELLERS MARKET. Properties were literally flying off the shelves, particularly single family homes and condos, which were going under contract in less than 6 weeks (and some in just a few days, or even hours). Remember, we were talking about the inventory being very low about a year ago (1159 active listings as of January 5th, 2021)? Obviously now, that number was...

Despite/due to the pandemic, the Outer Banks real estate market broke many records both in sales volume and units sold last year. With a slow and frustrating beginning of the year, its second half turned out to be epic for the Outer Banks real estate. OBX officially became a SELLER'S MARKET with abnormally high demand and shrinking inventory. Overall sales volume in Dare and Currituck Counties have seen...

Dare County and Currituck County Let’s take a look at the Outer Banks real estate market in 2019. Last year was a busy one for buyers and sellers of single-family homes on Outer Banks. Both units and sales volume have increased in 2019 (+8% and +7% respectively). It took an average of 120 days to sell a single-family home on the Outer Banks last year. However, the average sales price remained almost...

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