In July 2026, the median sale price across the Charleston Trident MLS service area was $449,918, up 4.6 percent from July 2025, homes took a median of 47 days to sell, and there were 5,697 homes for sale, which works out to 3.6 months of supply. Closer to the markets I work, the median for single-family detached homes was $425,000 in the Greater Summerville Area and $409,715 in the combined Goose Creek and Moncks Corner area. Those figures come from CHS Regional MLS reports for July 2026, current as of August 7, 2026. I update this page every month when the new reports publish, and I do not forecast prices here, because reporting what the market did is something I can source and predicting what it will do is not.
This is the page the rest of this site sends you to whenever a question depends on what the market is doing right now. Everywhere else I write about the Lowcountry, I deliberately avoid printing a median or an inventory count, because a number frozen into an evergreen guide is stale within a season and the reader has no way to tell. Those numbers live here instead, with the source and the date attached, so you can see exactly how old they are.
One thing to be clear about before the tables: this is a four-county picture, not a picture of your street. It is the right backdrop for a decision and the wrong tool for setting a list price.
What did the Charleston area market do in July 2026?
Sale prices rose year over year, homes took slightly longer to sell, and there was more to choose from than a year earlier. Median sale price was up 4.6 percent, days on market moved from 45 to 47, and inventory rose 4.7 percent while months of supply eased from 3.7 to 3.6. Closed sales were the one figure down against last July, by 1.8 percent, even though pending sales and new listings were both up. Here is the whole report, July against July:
| Key Metric | July 2025 | July 2026 | Percent Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Listings | 2,292 | 2,395 | +4.5% |
| Pending Sales | 1,588 | 1,689 | +6.4% |
| Closed Sales | 1,729 | 1,698 | -1.8% |
| Days on Market | 45 | 47 | +4.4% |
| Median Sales Price | $429,950 | $449,918 | +4.6% |
| Average Sales Price | $619,913 | $676,049 | +9.1% |
| Pct. of Orig. Price Received | 96.2% | 96.0% | -0.2% |
| Housing Affordability Index | 76 | 73 | -3.9% |
| Inventory of Homes for Sale | 5,443 | 5,697 | +4.7% |
| Months Supply of Inventory | 3.7 | 3.6 | -2.7% |
And the same metrics measured across the year so far rather than a single month, which smooths out the noise a single July can carry:
| Key Metric | Year to date 2025 | Year to date 2026 | Percent Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Listings | 16,216 | 17,345 | +7.0% |
| Pending Sales | 11,202 | 12,205 | +9.0% |
| Closed Sales | 10,706 | 11,216 | +4.8% |
| Days on Market | 48 | 52 | +8.3% |
| Median Sales Price | $428,500 | $437,525 | +2.1% |
| Average Sales Price | $643,656 | $692,541 | +7.6% |
| Pct. of Orig. Price Received | 96.4% | 96.1% | -0.3% |
| Housing Affordability Index | 76 | 75 | -1.3% |
| Inventory of Homes for Sale | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Months Supply of Inventory | Not published | Not published | Not published |
Based on information from CHS Regional MLS for the period July 1, 2026 through July 31, 2026.
Source: CHS Regional MLS, “Monthly Indicators”, July 2026 edition, retrieved 2026-08-12 from the Charleston Trident Association of REALTORS public statistics site. The report’s own provenance line reads: “Current as of August 7, 2026. All data from the Charleston Trident Multiple Listing Service. Report © 2026 ShowingTime Plus, LLC. Data deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Consult your agent for market specifics.” The report also states: “A research tool provided by the Charleston Trident Association of REALTORS®. Percent changes are calculated using rounded figures.” That last point is worth holding onto: if you recompute a percentage from the two printed values and get a slightly different answer, the report’s rounding is why, not an error here. Where the year-to-date table reads “Not published”, that is the report’s position rather than an omission on my part: it publishes no year-to-date figure for Inventory of Homes for Sale or Months Supply of Inventory, so I do not publish one either instead of calculating something it did not stand behind.
What do the numbers look like closer to where I work?
Closer in, and reported by MLS area rather than by town. The same association publishes a Local Market Update for each of its reporting areas, and two of them cover the ground I work most: the Greater Summerville Area, and a combined Goose Creek and Moncks Corner area. Both tables below are Single-Family Detached only, which is the series I republish here, and the area names and numbers are exactly as the source prints them.
Read the area names literally, because they are MLS submarkets and not town boundaries. “Greater Summerville Area” is wider than the town of Summerville. “Goose Creek / Monck’s Corner” is a single combined area covering three MLS zones, and the source does not split Goose Creek from Moncks Corner, so neither can I.
Greater Summerville Area (Areas 62 & 63), Single-Family Detached
| Key Metric | July 2025 | July 2026 | Percent Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Listings | 297 | 317 | +6.7% |
| Closed Sales | 230 | 213 | -7.4% |
| Median Sales Price | $409,433 | $425,000 | +3.8% |
| Average Sales Price | $449,753 | $453,548 | +0.8% |
| Percent of Original List Price Received | 96.6% | 96.1% | -0.5% |
| Days on Market Until Sale | 44 | 50 | +13.6% |
| Inventory of Homes for Sale | 601 | 666 | +10.8% |
Goose Creek / Monck’s Corner (Areas 72, 73 & 74), Single-Family Detached
| Key Metric | July 2025 | July 2026 | Percent Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Listings | 399 | 420 | +5.3% |
| Closed Sales | 316 | 302 | -4.4% |
| Median Sales Price | $410,000 | $409,715 | -0.1% |
| Average Sales Price | $438,467 | $434,818 | -0.8% |
| Percent of Original List Price Received | 97.6% | 97.7% | +0.1% |
| Days on Market Until Sale | 40 | 41 | +2.5% |
| Inventory of Homes for Sale | 847 | 862 | +1.8% |
Based on information from CHS Regional MLS for the period July 1, 2026 through July 31, 2026.
Source: CHS Regional MLS, “Local Market Update”, July 2026 edition, one report per area, retrieved 2026-08-12. These reports carry their own provenance line, which differs from the one on the service-area report above: “Current as of August 7, 2026. All data from the Charleston Trident Multiple Listing Service. Sponsored by South Carolina REALTORS®. Report © 2026 ShowingTime Plus, LLC. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Consult your agent for market specifics.”
Two caveats the source itself attaches to these tables, and they carry real weight. The first: the price and percent-received figures “[do] not account for sale concessions and/or downpayment assistance.” That matters more here than almost anywhere, because in a corridor with this much new construction, a builder’s rate buydown or closing-cost credit can be a large part of a deal, and it is invisible in a median sale price. Two homes at the same recorded price can be very different deals. The second: percent changes “can sometimes look extreme due to small sample size.” These areas close a few hundred single-family homes a month, which is enough to be meaningful, but a single unusual month can still move a percentage more than the underlying market moved.
The source also publishes a Townhouse-Condo Attached series for both areas. I do not republish it here, because the monthly closed-sale counts in that series run small enough that the percentage swings mislead more than they inform. If you are shopping attached product specifically, ask me and I will pull it and read it with you.
What area do these numbers actually cover?
They cover the Charleston Trident MLS service area, which is four counties: Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton and Dorchester. The Charleston Trident Association of REALTORS states that its jurisdiction “is limited to Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton and Dorchester Counties,” and this report is drawn from that MLS.
That is a wide area, and it matters for how you read the figures. It includes downtown Charleston and the barrier islands at one end and rural Colleton County at the other, so a single median sits above what most buyers pay in the suburbs I work along I-26 and well below what a peninsula or beachfront home costs. Treat the number as the weather across the region, not the temperature in your yard.
Why is there no Cane Bay, Nexton or Carnes Crossroads number here?
Because no published monthly figure for them exists. The MLS reports by area, and those three master-planned communities each sit inside a larger reporting area rather than being one, so there is no median sale price or days-on-market figure for Cane Bay, Nexton or Carnes Crossroads to republish. That is a gap in what is published, not a gap in what I am willing to look up.
It is also worth being precise about the two areas that are published, because the names invite a wrong reading. “Greater Summerville Area” is not the town of Summerville; it is an MLS submarket that reaches beyond the town line. And Goose Creek and Moncks Corner are reported together as one area, so a figure for either one alone does not exist either.
What I will not do is take an area figure, put a community’s name on top of it, and let it read as that community’s number. That would be wrong in a way that looks authoritative, which is the worst kind of wrong on a page like this.
What I can do, and do regularly, is pull the actual comparable sales for a specific subdivision, price band and home type, and walk you through them. In Cane Bay or Nexton that is the only honest way to answer the question, and it is a better answer than an area median would have been anyway, because it accounts for the phase, the builder incentive and the lot. That is a real answer to “what is happening on my street,” and it is the one that matters when you are setting a price or writing an offer. Ask me for it and tell me the community you are weighing.
What does “Pct. of Orig. Price Received” mean?
It is the sale price as a percentage of the original asking price, not the most recent one, and that distinction is the whole point of the metric. If a home lists at $500,000, is reduced to $460,000, and sells for $450,000, the more familiar list-to-sale ratio measured against that final $460,000 asking price would read 97.8 percent, while this metric measures against the original $500,000 and reads 90 percent. At 96.0 percent for July 2026, the figure is telling you what sellers across the service area actually realised against where they started, price reductions included.
Two other labels worth a plain-language gloss. Months Supply of Inventory is roughly how long it would take to sell every home currently listed at the recent pace of sales, so a smaller number means less to choose from. Housing Affordability Index is a relative measure of how a median household income compares with what is needed to buy a median-priced home, so a falling index means affordability is getting tighter.
One caveat that belongs to every median sale price anywhere, and to this one: a sale price is the contract price. It does not tell you what seller concessions, rate buydowns or closing-cost help were part of the deal, and in a market with as much new construction as this one, those can be a substantial part of what actually changed hands. If you are a buyer using a VA loan, the concession mechanics are covered at seller concessions on a VA loan.
How do I use this page if I am buying or selling?
Read it as context, then get specific with someone who can see your actual situation, because a regional figure sets expectations and does not price a house. If you are selling, the useful sequence is this page for the backdrop, when to list (coming soon) for timing, how a list price is arrived at for method, and then a real conversation about your home. If an online estimate is what prompted the question, how accurate the Zestimate is here (coming soon) is worth reading first.
If you are buying, the figures above tell you roughly how much competition and choice to expect, and the neighborhoods hub and the community comparisons tell you what the places themselves are actually like. The whole seller process is at selling and the buyer process at buying.
How often is this page updated, and where do the numbers come from?
Once a month, every month, from one publisher. The Charleston Trident Association of REALTORS publishes the previous month’s reports in roughly the first week of the following month, and this page is refreshed from three of them: the service-area “Monthly Indicators”, whose Market Overview table is on page 2, and the “Local Market Update” for the Greater Summerville Area and for Goose Creek / Monck’s Corner, each a single page. Open each one, retype the figures, and update the period in the source notices and the “Last updated” date. That is the whole procedure, and it is deliberately that small, because a monthly commitment only survives if it is genuinely a short sitting rather than a project.
The figures are transcribed as the report prints them, with its own labels, and are never rounded, converted or recalculated here. The report itself is not re-hosted and its charts are not reproduced; what appears above are the figures in my own layout, with the association’s attribution and disclaimer carried alongside them. If you want to read the original, the current edition is published at the association’s public statistics site.
What you will never find on this page is a prediction. I am a REALTOR, not an economist, and neither I nor anyone else knows what prices will do next quarter. Reporting what the market did, with a date and a source, is a thing I can do honestly. Forecasting is not, so I do not.
Talk through what this means for your move
I am Megan Duncan, a REALTOR with Modern + Main Realty in Moncks Corner and a Military Relocation Professional (MRP). Regional figures are a starting point, and the useful conversation is the one about your specific home, your timeline, and the comparable sales on your street. I work Summerville, Nexton, Cane Bay, Moncks Corner, Goose Creek and Carnes Crossroads, with a focus on military and PCS relocations to the Joint Base Charleston area and on new construction.
One low-pressure next step: tell me the community you are weighing or the address you are thinking of selling, and I will pull the actual comparable sales and walk you through them. No pressure, no obligation. Reach me through contact.
