This is a dated snapshot. The figures below cover the 90 days ending November 1, 2026. For the current numbers, updated monthly, see the South Charlotte market data page.
There’s a good chance someone has told you that you can cross into South Carolina and buy more house for the money. For most of the last year that was close to true. It isn’t true in this window, and the gap is now running the other way. Across the 13 South Charlotte areas I track, 1,698 single family homes closed for a combined $1,218,031,727 in the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, an average sale price of $717,333 and a median of $567,805, per Canopy MLS. The three South Carolina towns closed at a $615,000 median against $559,990 on the North Carolina side, a $55,010 gap in favor of North Carolina, and they took 32 median days to sell against 24.
So the South Carolina side is now the pricier one and the slower one at the same time. That’s the second month in a row the gap has widened, and it’s the single thing in this report most likely to change where you end up looking.
Every figure here is a closed sale recorded in Canopy MLS, the multiple listing service covering the Charlotte region. This is the fifth edition of a monthly series. Last month’s report is here, and the full archive lives in the market reports category.
8 min read | By Steve Jarrell, Team Lead of The Longleaf Group at eXp Realty | Updated November 2026
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What This Guide Covers
- The November 2026 numbers, town by town
- What changed in South Charlotte since the October 2026 report
- The South Carolina side is now the expensive side, and the slow one
- Indian Land is the slowest real market in South Charlotte right now
- SouthPark’s average is carrying one very large sale
- The top of the market stayed thin: Weddington and Marvin
- How to read these numbers
Read the table below for your town first, then read the section under it. A median price on its own will mislead you. The two columns that decide how your search or your sale actually goes are days on market and price per square foot, and this month the time column moved again while price barely did.
The November 2026 numbers, town by town
The Short Answer
South Charlotte closed 1,698 single family homes for $1.22 billion in the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, across the 13 areas tracked here, per Canopy MLS. Closings fell 9.3 percent from the prior window and the median eased 1.3 percent to $567,805, while the regional median days on market rose from 22 to 26.
Key numbers you need right now:
- 1,698 closed sales across the 13 tracked areas, 175 fewer than the prior window
- $567,805 median sale price, $717,333 average, $236.05 median price per square foot
- Priciest area: Weddington at a $1,543,460 median. Most affordable: Monroe at $400,500
- Fastest market: Lake Wylie at 12 median days on market. Slowest, setting Marvin aside: Indian Land at 46.5 days
- NC side: 1,329 sales, $559,990 median. SC side: 369 sales, $615,000 median
| Area | County, State | Closed sales (90 days) | Median sale price | Average sale price | Median days on market | Median price per square foot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weddington | Union, NC | 26 | $1,543,460 | $1,558,097 | 19 | $344.64 |
| Marvin | Union, NC | 7 | Not published, sample too small | Not published | 52 | Not published |
| SouthPark (28210/28211) | Mecklenburg, NC | 187 | $820,000 | $1,129,217 | 14 | $374.94 |
| Lake Wylie | York, SC | 22 | $770,000 | $797,455 | 12 | $246.88 |
| Ballantyne (28277) | Mecklenburg, NC | 135 | $744,900 | $895,471 | 19 | $281.12 |
| Waxhaw | Union, NC | 225 | $710,000 | $852,133 | 26 | $231.81 |
| Fort Mill | York, SC | 269 | $610,000 | $709,929 | 31 | $232.35 |
| Indian Land | Lancaster, SC | 78 | $585,771 | $618,535 | 46.5 | $219.24 |
| Mint Hill | Mecklenburg, NC | 68 | $546,771 | $646,564 | 33 | $226.67 |
| Matthews | Mecklenburg, NC | 174 | $545,000 | $614,003 | 16.5 | $230.65 |
| Pineville | Mecklenburg, NC | 41 | $508,500 | $506,270 | 13 | $235.35 |
| Indian Trail | Union, NC | 188 | $499,995 | $496,991 | 24 | $192.02 |
| Monroe | Union, NC | 278 | $400,500 | $435,387 | 37 | $198.59 |
| North Carolina side total | NC | 1,329 | $559,990 | $723,304 | 24 | $237.18 |
| South Carolina side total | SC | 369 | $615,000 | $695,828 | 32 | $230.73 |
| All 13 areas | NC and SC | 1,698 | $567,805 | $717,333 | 26 | $236.05 |
Based on information from Canopy MLS for the period August 3, 2026 through November 1, 2026 for the 13 South Charlotte areas in this report. Properties may be listed or sold by various participants of the MLS.
The price per square foot column is the fairest way for you to compare a 2,400 square foot house in Indian Trail against a 4,900 square foot house in Weddington. The spread runs from $192.02 in Indian Trail to $374.94 in SouthPark, close to double.
“Across 13 South Charlotte areas, 1,698 homes closed in the 90 days ending November 1, 2026 at a $567,805 median. The South Carolina towns are now both pricier and slower than the North Carolina ones, a reversal of what buyers have been told for a year.” Steve Jarrell, Team Lead of The Longleaf Group at eXp Realty, data per Canopy MLS.
Here’s how I’d use this if you’re buying: find your town, read the days on market column before you read price, and notice how much of this region is now sitting for a month or more. That’s your negotiating room, and it’s real in a way the price column isn’t. This is one of the more common surprises I run into with relocating buyers, who come in expecting the whole region to move at the same speed.
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What changed in South Charlotte since the October 2026 report
Across the 13 South Charlotte areas, closings fell from 1,873 in the 90 days ending October 1 to 1,698 in the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, down 9.3 percent, with dollar volume down 9.8 percent to $1.22 billion, per Canopy MLS. Price moved much less: the median eased 1.3 percent and the average 0.5 percent.
That’s the same shape as last month, one notch shallower. Volume is coming off its summer peak because the rolling window keeps shedding strong spring closings and picking up autumn ones. Sellers aren’t cutting to move inventory, which is why a 9 percent drop in sales produced a 1 percent drop in price.
The time column is where the real movement is. Median days on market rose in ten of the thirteen areas: Weddington (12 to 19), SouthPark (10 to 14), Ballantyne (11.5 to 19), Waxhaw (21 to 26), Matthews (14 to 16.5), Fort Mill (27 to 31), Indian Land (33 to 46.5), Mint Hill (25 to 33), Indian Trail (22 to 24) and Marvin (35.5 to 52). Monroe held flat at 37 and Pineville at 13. Only Lake Wylie got faster, from 17 days to 12, and at 22 closings it’s a market where one busy week moves the number.
If you own in Matthews, watch the price column this month. The town’s median fell 5.2 percent and its average 4.9 percent, the steepest moves in the region, on 174 closings, which is enough sales that the change is unlikely to be noise. Ballantyne went the other way: its median rose 3.5 percent to $744,900 while its days on market went from 11.5 to 19, which usually means the homes that sold were the better ones and the rest waited. If you’re pricing a Ballantyne home this fall, I’d price it against those closed sales, not against the listings that are still sitting.
The South Carolina side is now the expensive side, and the slow one
For most of the last year, crossing the state line was a real discount on the median, or close enough to one that it was worth the drive. Two windows have now undone that.
In the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, per Canopy MLS, the three South Carolina areas, Fort Mill, Indian Land and Lake Wylie, closed 369 homes at a $615,000 median. The ten North Carolina areas closed 1,329 at a $559,990 median. That’s a $55,010 gap in favor of North Carolina. In the September window the same comparison was about $2,000, and in October it was $41,465.
What this doesn’t mean is that South Carolina got expensive to own. Price per square foot across the line is $230.73 against $237.18 in North Carolina, under 3 percent apart, so the headline gap is mostly a question of what size of house is being built and sold on each side. South Carolina property taxes on an owner occupied home are still the real monthly difference, and nothing in this window changed that. What changed is the purchase price and the waiting. The South Carolina side took a median 32 days to sell against 24 in North Carolina, and both of those numbers went up.
If you’re weighing the two sides against each other, this is the comparison I get asked about most:
Indian Land is the slowest real market in South Charlotte right now
Indian Land posted a median 46.5 days on market in the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, per Canopy MLS, on 78 closings at a $585,771 median. A month ago it was 33 days. That’s the largest move of any area with a real sample, and it puts Indian Land nine and a half days ahead of Monroe, which was the slowest market in this report last month at 37 days.
Its price held up while its clock stretched. The median rose 1.9 percent and closings rose 16.4 percent, so this isn’t a market where nothing is selling. It’s a market where more homes came up for sale than buyers were working through, and the ones that sold waited longer for it. Indian Land is in Lancaster County, South Carolina, on the Charlotte side of the Catawba River, and it’s been one of the fastest building corridors in the region for several years. A lot of new supply arriving at once does exactly this to the time column.
For a buyer, 46 days is a conversation. For a seller there, it’s a warning that the price your neighbor got in June came out of a faster market than the one you’re listing into.
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SouthPark (ZIP codes 28210 and 28211, the Charlotte submarket around SouthPark mall) shows a $1,129,217 average against an $820,000 median in the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, per Canopy MLS. That’s a $309,217 spread, the widest in the region, and it’s the clearest reason to read the median column rather than the average.
One sale in the window closed above $5 million, at $5,400,000. Take it out of 187 closings and the average drops to $1,106,256, so that single home lifts the SouthPark average by $22,961. Last month three sales above $5 million were doing the same job at a larger scale. The pattern is the same either way: a handful of homes at the top decide what the average says, and the median ignores them.
What SouthPark genuinely leads on is price per square foot. At $374.94 it’s 59 percent above the regional median of $236.05 and it rose 2 percent while the region was flat. If you’re comparing SouthPark to Ballantyne, the $820,000 and $744,900 medians are the comparison to make, and $374.94 against $281.12 per square foot tells you most of what the difference is buying.
If these numbers have you wondering whether waiting until next year would get you a better deal, here is what the forecasts say about buying in 2027.
The top of the market stayed thin: Weddington and Marvin
Weddington is still the most expensive South Charlotte area tracked here, at a $1,543,460 median and a $1,558,097 average on 26 closings in the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, per Canopy MLS, with the second highest price per square foot in the region at $344.64. Its median rose 2.9 percent while its average fell 3.3 percent, which on 26 sales means the very top of its range was quieter rather than that the town got cheaper. Its days on market went from 12 to 19.
Marvin is the sharper example, for the second month running. Seven single family homes closed there in 90 days. That’s too small a sample to publish a median or an average without misleading you, so I’m not publishing one, the same call I made at five sales last month and at seven the month before. Its seven closings stay in the regional totals, and for context on the market rather than the price, the median days on market across those seven was 52, up from 35.5.
Marvin is a village of about 8,000 people that incorporated in 1994 specifically to control its own growth, with a 2.5 acre minimum on most residential lots. A market that small is a feature of how the place was designed, not a signal about the region.
One caution before you act on any of this. These are 90 day closed sale statistics, so they describe what already happened rather than what you’re walking into this week, and a window that just closed always picks up a few more recordings in the weeks after. If you’re deciding on a specific street or a specific subdivision, ask me to pull that submarket instead of leaning on a town wide median.
How to read these numbers
Four rules that will keep you out of trouble with any market table, including this one.
Read the median before the average. The median is the middle sale. The average is pulled by whatever the largest sales happened to be, which is why SouthPark shows a $309,217 gap between the two and Pineville, with no outliers at all, shows the average sitting $2,230 below the median.
Read days on market before price. Price tells you what the market was. Days on market tells you what it’s doing now, and it turns before price does. This window is a clean example: time moved in ten areas, price moved almost nowhere.
Use price per square foot to compare across towns. A $610,000 median in Fort Mill and a $546,771 median in Mint Hill look far apart until you see $232.35 against $226.67 per square foot, which tells you the Fort Mill house is simply bigger.
Discount small samples. Marvin at 7 closings and Lake Wylie at 22 can swing double digits on one unusual sale, and Weddington at 26 is thin too. Waxhaw at 225, Fort Mill at 269 and Monroe at 278 are the areas where a month to month change is a real signal. If you’re watching Marvin or Lake Wylie, I’d wait for a second month before you read anything into a move.
South Charlotte housing market FAQ
How is the housing market in South Charlotte right now?
Slower again, and barely cheaper. The 13 areas tracked here closed 1,698 single family homes in the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, 9.3 percent fewer than the prior window, while the median price eased 1.3 percent to $567,805. The bigger change was time: the regional median days on market went from 22 to 26 and rose in ten of the thirteen areas. Buyers have more room to think than they did in the summer.
What is the average home price in South Charlotte?
Across the 13 areas, the average sale price was $717,333 and the median was $567,805 for the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, per Canopy MLS. Setting Marvin aside, town averages ranged from $435,387 in Monroe to $1,558,097 in Weddington. The median is the more useful number, because a handful of very large sales pull the average up.
What is the most expensive town in South Charlotte?
Weddington, at a $1,543,460 median and a $1,558,097 average in the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, per Canopy MLS. SouthPark is the priciest Charlotte submarket tracked here at an $820,000 median, and it leads the region on price per square foot at $374.94.
Where are the most affordable homes near Charlotte NC?
Monroe, at a $400,500 median and a $435,387 average in the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, per Canopy MLS, followed by Indian Trail at a $499,995 median and Pineville at $508,500. Indian Trail is the lowest cost per square foot in the region at $192.02, and Monroe gives buyers a median 37 days on market to work with.
Is the Charlotte housing market slowing down?
On the south side, yes, in volume and in speed more than in price, over the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, per Canopy MLS. Closings fell 9.3 percent and dollar volume fell 9.8 percent against the prior 90 day window, and days on market rose in ten of thirteen areas, while the median price slipped 1.3 percent and the average 0.5 percent. That is the second month of the same pattern, which reads as a post-summer cooldown rather than a price correction.
How long does it take to sell a house in South Charlotte?
It depends heavily on the town you’re selling in. Median days on market for the 90 days ending November 1, 2026: 12 in Lake Wylie, 13 in Pineville, 14 in SouthPark, 16.5 in Matthews, 19 in Weddington, 19 in Ballantyne, 24 in Indian Trail, 26 in Waxhaw, 31 in Fort Mill, 33 in Mint Hill, 37 in Monroe, 46.5 in Indian Land and 52 in Marvin.
Is it cheaper to buy in South Carolina or North Carolina near Charlotte?
Not on the median, and the gap is widening. In the 90 days ending November 1, 2026, per Canopy MLS, the three South Carolina areas tracked here, Fort Mill, Indian Land and Lake Wylie, posted a $615,000 median against $559,990 on the North Carolina side, a $55,010 gap. A month ago that gap was $41,465, and two months ago about $2,000. The South Carolina side is also the slower one, at a 32 day median against 24 days in North Carolina. Lower South Carolina property taxes on an owner occupied home still favor that side on your monthly payment.
How many homes sold in South Charlotte recently?
1,698 single family homes closed across the 13 tracked areas in the 90 days ending November 1, 2026: 1,329 on the North Carolina side and 369 in the South Carolina border towns of Fort Mill, Indian Land and Lake Wylie.
Where does this market data come from?
I pull them from Canopy MLS, the multiple listing service covering the Charlotte region, through the Matrix platform under my broker license. Closed sales only: not list prices, not pending sales, not automated estimates. The numbers cover single family homes only and are republished monthly with the prior edition preserved as a dated snapshot.
About the Author
Steve Jarrell is a licensed North Carolina and South Carolina broker and the Team Lead of The Longleaf Group at eXp Realty, which he co-leads with his wife Amanda. Before real estate, Steve joined VisualTour as President, led its rebrand to Paradym, and led the company to its acquisition by Constellation Software in 2020. He holds an MBA from the University of Tennessee with concentrations in Marketing and Innovation. The Longleaf Group is an eXp ICON Team and a RealTrends Verified Top Team by Volume for 2026, with 175+ five-star reviews.
He lives in Weddington, works both sides of the state line every week, and publishes this report monthly from Canopy MLS data rather than from a portal estimate. He also runs the Living in South Charlotte YouTube channel.
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