Raleigh-Cary, NC · Wake County, NC · 650 properties with county records
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Cary 27518 is in Wake County, NC, part of the Raleigh Metro. The typical home value in Cary 27518 is $727,159 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), up 0.9% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 26 days, and 29% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Sep 30, 2026). On Lotvox's market-leverage reading of that data, with 2.5 months of supply, sellers hold a slight edge. The Lotvox Turnover Index is not published for 27518 yet: it appears only where a held-out test on the county's recorded sales beats chance. Across Wake County's 32 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $500,161, so 27518 sits 45% above the county middle. Typical rent is $1,609 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index, September 2026). Lotvox holds county assessor records for 650 properties in 27518.
Headline value data through September 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 27518 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Sep 30, 2026, 27518 is a seller's market, narrowly. Homes went under contract in a median 26 days with 2.5 months of supply.
What do homes in 27518 sell for?
The typical home value in 27518 is $727,159 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), up 0.9% in a year. County records put the median at about $248 per square foot (computed Apr 21, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 27518?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 27518 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 27518 compare to Wake County?
27518's typical value of $727,159 compares with a middle value of $500,161 across Wake County's 32 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for September 2026.
Where does this 27518 data come from?
Values and rents come from Zillow's research data, sales pace from the Redfin Data Center, and property counts and turnover from county assessor and deed records. Each number on this page carries its own date, and the method is published at lotvox.com/methodology.
Rent: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). Ownership cost: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), 20% down, 30-year loan at the current mortgage rate, plus 1.2% of the price a year.
Rent to price — the investor's question first
37.7×
price to annual rent
Lower is friendlier to a buy-to-let case. This is a ratio of published medians, not a yield on any particular property.
Price: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). Annual rent: 12 months of Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI).
Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / seller
buyer-timing lens
Negotiate Hard
Needs 24.2% correction for affordability
DOM: 52d (rising) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)75
Valuation Gap (25%)100
Supply & Demand (20%)85
Buy vs Rent (15%)100
Cancellation Rate (10%)0
Days on Market (5%)60
Moderate buyer leverage in 27518. Room to negotiate 5-10% below list. Payment burden: 37.4% of median income. A 6% price correction needed to reach 30% affordability threshold. Median days on market: 52. Renting is approximately 233% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 40.0). Market appears 65% overpriced vs. assessed values.
What to Offer
Offer 5-10% below list. You have room to negotiate.
Median price: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). Median rent: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). Days on market and active listings: Redfin Data Center, rolling 90 days.
Valuation
3 lenses, different anchors
vs assessor
-64.8%
Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.
Avg assessor$256,050
county CAMA · properties_v
vs income
—
Fair-value model not available for this market.
fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage
vs county comps
+65.1%
County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.
Johnston+65.1%
Mecklenburg+79.0%
Wake+65.6%
Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap
Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.
Housing pulse — Housing pulse could not be loaded (429).
Price bands
mix-shift
Price Bands — the median behind the median
A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Wake.
Aggregate median +9.0% YoY in this ZIP, but the under-$500k tier is +2.2% — both the aggregate and the entry tier are rising. Over the same year the under-$500k share of sales moved from 18.4% to 14.6% (-3.8pp) and the $1M+ share from 10.2% to 15.3% (+5.1pp).
Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier
2 tiers had too few sales in this ZIP and are shown at county or metro level — see the stamp on each row.
Tier
Median
$/sqft
Sales
Share
Source
Under $250k
$210k
$159
460
—
COUNTY · Wake, NC
$250k–$500k
$396k
$222
40
13.9%
ZIP
$500k–$750k
$668k
$258
85
29.5%
ZIP
$750k–$1M
$850k
$280
117
40.6%
ZIP
$1M–$1.5M
$1.16M
$289
31
10.8%
ZIP
$1.5M–$2M
$1.57M
$314
10
3.5%
ZIP
$2M+
$2.43M
$470
156
—
COUNTY · Wake, NC
All sales (the headline median)
$769k
$268
288
100%
ZIP
Share of sales by tier (quarterly)
If the upper tiers widen over time, the headline median rises on composition alone.
Under $250k
$250k–$500k
$500k–$750k
$750k–$1M
$1M–$1.5M
$1.5M–$2M
$2M+
Median within each tier, against the headline median (quarterly)
The blue line is the single number NAR-style reporting quotes. The gold lines are what each tier actually did. Log scale — the tiers span an order of magnitude, and on a log axis equal slopes mean equal percentage moves, which is the comparison being made.
$250k–$500k
$500k–$750k
$750k–$1M
$1M–$1.5M
All sales (headline)
National context — not local
NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the South census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 27518.
United States
South
Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.
Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.
ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.
This ZIP code crosses county lines. Property data shows Johnston (90.7%), Mecklenburg (5%) and Wake (4.2%). County metrics below are shown separately for each county.
Johnston (90.7%)
Mecklenburg (5%)
Wake (4.2%)
ZIP 27518→3 counties
12-Month Direction
+4Stable
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
40· Weak
Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.
Payment Burden
39.6%
severe
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.32% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-22
Price-to-rent
37.7x
favors renting
Source: Zillow ZHVI ÷ (Zillow ZORI × 12)
Valuation14
+65.1%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Supply/Demand
2.5 mo
seller's market
Source: Redfin Data Center (ZIP): inventory ÷ monthly homes sold · Updated 2026-09-30
Insurance Risk
45/100
moderate
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators remain stronger than national averages.
Unemployment Rate
3.1%
NC 3.5%US 4.4%
Lower than most U.S. counties
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0857d ago
Poverty Rate
10.8%
NC 12.9%US 12.6%
Near national averages
Median Household Income
$79,838
NC $71,866US $82,006
Higher than most U.S. counties
Cost of Living (RPP)
93.8
NC 93.8US 100.3
Lower than most U.S. counties
Home Value (ZHVI)$344,953
County data: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA · Coverage derived from property records · Counties with <2% coverage excluded as likely data errors
