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South Charlotte Market Data: Closed Sale Prices by Town (Updated Monthly)

July 31, 2026

Quick Answer: South Charlotte market data for the 90 days ending July 30, 2026 shows a median single-family closed sale price of $598,189 across 2,175 closed transactions in Canopy MLS, covering South Charlotte, Union County NC, and the northern South Carolina border markets. Weddington leads the region at a $1,622,799 median, followed by SouthPark at $815,000, Waxhaw at $742,000, and Ballantyne at $735,000. Monroe is the most accessible at $417,990. The North Carolina median ($598,189) and the South Carolina median ($599,000) differ by $811, which means the typical home costs effectively the same on both sides of the state line. Data compiled by Steve Jarrell, The Longleaf Group at eXp Realty, licensed in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Updated July 30, 2026. About an 8 minute read. Compiled by Steve Jarrell of The Longleaf Group at eXp Realty, refreshed monthly from Canopy MLS. Steve is licensed in both North Carolina and South Carolina, which is why this dataset covers both sides of the state line rather than stopping at the border.

South Charlotte market data: closed sale prices by town

Single-family homes, closed status, rolling 90 days ending July 30, 2026. Sorted by median price. The median is the better number to use in most of these markets, and the table shows both the median and the average so you can see exactly where the two diverge. Where they diverge a lot, an outlier sale is doing the work.

Area State Closed Sales Median Price Average Price Median Days on Market Median $/Sq Ft
Weddington NC 25 $1,622,799 $1,697,885 1 $342.00
SouthPark (28210, 28211) NC 232 $815,000 $1,220,043 4 $368.45
Waxhaw NC 294 $742,000 $902,231 13.5 $238.95
Ballantyne (28277) NC 210 $735,000 $868,017 8 $276.83
Lake Wylie SC 22 $662,500 $742,341 21 $221.73
Indian Land SC 86 $604,500 $650,421 23 $220.20
Fort Mill SC 386 $592,500 $668,123 15 $231.94
Matthews NC 253 $560,000 $676,176 6 $239.84
Mint Hill NC 122 $550,000 $613,371 15 $222.87
Indian Trail NC 191 $495,000 $512,530 29 $198.56
Pineville NC 33 $450,000 $496,694 5 $243.77
Monroe NC 317 $417,990 $461,181 30 $201.15
Marvin NC 4 Not reported. Only 4 single-family sales closed in the 90 day window, which is too small a sample to publish a reliable price.
All 13 areas n/a 2,175 $598,189 $742,526 13 n/a

Small sample note: Weddington (25 sales) and Lake Wylie (22 sales) fall below 30 closed transactions. Their figures are directionally useful but will move more month to month than the higher volume markets. Marvin is reported as insufficient rather than given a price.

If you want the neighborhood level context behind these numbers, I keep a page for each of the towns I cover most closely, including Weddington, Waxhaw, Ballantyne, and Fort Mill.

North Carolina vs South Carolina: the state line barely moves the price

This is the question relocating buyers ask me more than any other, and the answer in this data runs against what almost everyone assumes before they get here.

Segment Closed Sales Median Price Average Price Median Days on Market
North Carolina side
Weddington, Waxhaw, Marvin, Matthews, Indian Trail, Monroe, Mint Hill, Pineville, Ballantyne, SouthPark
1,681 $598,189 $764,325 12
South Carolina side
Fort Mill, Indian Land, Lake Wylie
494 $599,000 $668,346 16

The medians differ by $811, or 0.14 percent. For a buyer purchasing a median priced home, crossing the state line does not change what the house costs. I have watched buyers spend weeks agonizing over which side of the border to shop, and on price alone this dataset says that decision is close to a coin flip.

One thing worth flagging before anyone assumes it is a typo. The regional median across all 13 areas and the North Carolina median are both exactly $598,189. I checked it, and it is a genuine coincidence rather than a copy error. Both sets contain an odd number of sales, 2,175 for the region and 1,681 for North Carolina, so each has a true middle sale, and because North Carolina supplies roughly three quarters of the volume the middle sale happens to land on the same transaction value in both sets. Identical medians, two different calculations.

Three things are actually different between the two states, and I think they matter more than the price does:

The top of the market, not the middle. The North Carolina average runs $95,979 higher than South Carolina while the medians are effectively identical. I read that gap as living entirely in the luxury tail, in Weddington, Marvin, and SouthPark. At the top of the market there is more inventory on the North Carolina side. In the middle of the market, where most buyers actually transact, the two states price the same.

Speed. Homes on the North Carolina side went under contract faster, at a median of 12 days against 16 in South Carolina. Monroe and Indian Trail are the exceptions within North Carolina, at 30 and 29 days, and that is where I would tell a buyer they currently have the most negotiating room in the region.

Property tax treatment. Because the purchase prices are so close, the tax difference is not being offset by a price difference the way buyers usually assume it is. That makes property tax a larger share of the total cost of ownership decision than the sale price is. The rules differ meaningfully between the two states for owner occupants, and I am not going to publish a rate here that could be stale by the time you read it. Confirm your situation against the North Carolina Department of Revenue and the South Carolina Department of Revenue, and if you want the plain English version of how the two systems compare, that is covered in my South Charlotte relocation guide.

If you would rather watch than read, I cover this market and the towns in it on my channel: Welcome to Charlotte NC on YouTube.

What the days on market numbers say

Days on market separates these submarkets far more sharply than price does, and it is the number I look at first when a client asks me how much leverage they have.

Weddington closed 25 homes at a median of 1 day on market. I read that as tight inventory rather than a hot market. Very few homes are listing, and the ones that do already have buyers waiting on them. That is a different problem to solve than a market where a hundred homes are competing and selling fast, and it changes how I would prepare a buyer to compete there. SouthPark at 4 days and Pineville at 5 days behave similarly. Matthews at 6 days and Ballantyne at 8 days are close behind.

At the other end, Monroe at 30 days and Indian Trail at 29 days give buyers meaningfully more time to think and more room to negotiate. I do not read those numbers as weakness in either town. I read them as more inventory relative to demand, which is exactly what a buyer who wants choices should be looking for. Indian Land at 23 days and Lake Wylie at 21 days sit in the middle, both slower than their North Carolina counterparts.

The practical version: if you are shopping Weddington or SouthPark, be fully approved and ready to move on day one. If you are shopping Monroe or Indian Trail, you have time to see a dozen homes before you commit to one.

Price per square foot tells a different story than price

Sorting by price per square foot reorders the region, and it is the number I reach for when a buyer is choosing between two towns and trying to work out where the money is actually going.

SouthPark leads at $368.45 and Weddington follows at $342.00. But the comparison I find more useful is Ballantyne at $276.83 against Waxhaw at $238.95. Those two markets have nearly the same median price, $735,000 and $742,000, yet Ballantyne costs about $38 more per square foot. A buyer choosing between them is trading square footage for location, and I want people to see that tradeoff explicitly rather than discover it on the third showing. In Waxhaw the same budget buys noticeably more house. In Ballantyne it buys a shorter drive to the office parks and the retail.

Indian Trail at $198.56 and Monroe at $201.15 are the only two areas in the region under $210 per square foot. That is the clearest affordability signal in this dataset, and it is why I keep pointing relocating buyers who want space toward those two towns even when they arrived with a different list.

How this South Charlotte market data was compiled

Every figure on this page traces to a search I ran myself in the MLS. Here is exactly how it was built, so you can judge the numbers rather than take them on faith.

SourceCanopy MLS, the multiple listing service covering the Charlotte region, accessed through the Matrix platform.
Property typeSingle-family residential only. Condominiums, townhouses, and stock cooperatives are excluded.
StatusClosed sales only. Not list prices, not pending sales, not automated estimates.
WindowRolling 90 days. Close dates in this dataset run from May 3, 2026 through July 30, 2026.
Sample2,175 closed transactions across 13 areas.
GeographyTowns are matched on the MLS city field. Ballantyne and SouthPark are not MLS cities, so they are represented by ZIP code: Ballantyne by 28277, SouthPark by 28210 and 28211.
Small samplesAreas under 30 closed sales are flagged. Areas without enough volume to report a reliable price are marked as insufficient rather than given a number.
Averages and mediansBoth are published because they diverge. Averages include outlier sales, and a single high value transaction can move them substantially. SouthPark is the clearest example in this period, where one sale at $15,000,000 pulls the average $405,000 above the median. Where the two disagree, the median is the more representative figure.
VerificationEach area’s extracted record count was checked against the MLS result total, and all averages and medians were independently recomputed before publication.
Update cadenceMonthly. This page is the canonical, continuously updated version of the dataset and always carries the current 90 day window. Dated monthly snapshots are published separately as point in time archives, and any snapshot older than the date on this page is superseded by the figures here.
Compiled bySteve Jarrell, The Longleaf Group at eXp Realty. Licensed in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Citing this data

This report is published under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Journalists, bloggers, and other agents are welcome to use these figures with credit.

South Charlotte Market Report, The Longleaf Group at eXp Realty, July 2026. https://thelongleafgroup.com/south-charlotte-market-data/

Questions buyers ask about this South Charlotte market data

What is the average home price in South Charlotte in 2026?

Across South Charlotte, Union County NC, and the northern South Carolina border markets, the median single-family closed sale price was $598,189 over the 90 days ending July 30, 2026, from 2,175 closed transactions in Canopy MLS. The average was $742,526. The median is the better figure to use, because averages in this region are pulled upward by a small number of very high value sales.

Is it cheaper to buy a home in South Carolina or North Carolina near Charlotte?

On price, they are effectively the same. The North Carolina median was $598,189 and the South Carolina median was $599,000 over the 90 days ending July 30, 2026, a difference of $811. The North Carolina average is higher, but only because there is more luxury inventory at the top of the market on that side. In the middle of the market the two states price the same, which means property tax treatment matters more in the decision than the purchase price does.

Which South Charlotte town is most expensive?

Weddington is the most expensive town in South Charlotte, at a $1,622,799 median across 25 closed sales in the 90 days ending July 30, 2026. SouthPark follows at $815,000, then Waxhaw at $742,000 and Ballantyne at $735,000. By price per square foot the order changes, with SouthPark first at $368.45 and Weddington second at $342.00.

Which South Charlotte area is most affordable?

Monroe is the most affordable area in this South Charlotte dataset, at a $417,990 median, followed by Pineville at $450,000 and Indian Trail at $495,000. Monroe and Indian Trail also carry the longest days on market in the region, 30 and 29 days, so buyers there have more inventory to choose from and more room to negotiate.

How fast are homes selling in South Charlotte?

The regional median is 13 days on market over the 90 days ending July 30, 2026. It varies widely by town: Weddington at 1 day, SouthPark at 4, Pineville at 5, and Matthews at 6 on the fast end, against Monroe at 30, Indian Trail at 29, and Indian Land at 23 on the slower end.

Where does South Charlotte market data come from?

This South Charlotte market data is compiled from Canopy MLS, filtered to single-family closed sales over a rolling 90 day window. These are recorded closing prices, not list prices or automated estimates. Towns are matched on the MLS city field, Ballantyne and SouthPark are matched by ZIP code, and any area with fewer than 30 closed sales is flagged as a small sample. Compiled by Steve Jarrell of The Longleaf Group at eXp Realty, licensed in North Carolina and South Carolina.

How often is this South Charlotte market report updated?

This South Charlotte market report is updated monthly. Each update replaces the figures with a new rolling 90 day window of Canopy MLS closed sales, and the report keeps the same web address, so the series builds up over time in one place rather than scattering across dated pages.

About the author

I am Steve Jarrell, a licensed real estate broker in both North Carolina and South Carolina and the team leader of The Longleaf Group at eXp Realty. I live in Weddington, which is one of the 13 areas in this report, so most of these markets are places I drive through in a normal week rather than places I read about.

Here is the part that should matter to you, and to any search engine deciding whether to trust this page. I pull these numbers out of Canopy MLS Matrix myself. This is not aggregated from portal estimates, automated valuation models, or third party scrapes of public records. I run the search, export the closed sales, check every area’s record count against the MLS result total, and recompute the medians and averages independently before anything gets published. Portal estimates are models built on top of county records with a lag. What is on this page is the recorded closing prices reported to the multiple listing service that the transactions actually ran through. When the two disagree, the MLS is the primary source and the portal is the derivative.

Before real estate I spent about a decade on the technology side of this industry. My father founded VisualTour in 1999. I later led its rebrand to Paradym, scaled it nationally serving thousands of agents and brokerages, and led the company through its acquisition by Constellation Software in 2020. I hold an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from the University of Tennessee. That background is the reason this page exists as a structured, sourced dataset with published methodology instead of a paragraph of market commentary.

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