Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / sellerbuyer-timing lens
Negotiate Hard
Needs 37% correction for affordability
DOM: 89d (rising) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)100
Valuation Gap (25%)10
Supply & Demand (20%)100
Buy vs Rent (15%)100
Cancellation Rate (10%)100
Days on Market (5%)75
Moderate buyer leverage in 29601. Room to negotiate 5-10% below list. Payment burden: 46.9% of median income. A 25% price correction needed to reach 30% affordability threshold. Median days on market: 89. Renting is approximately 110% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 25.2).
What to Offer
Offer 5-10% below list. You have room to negotiate.
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 Greenville.
Aggregate median +16.9% YoY in this ZIP, but the under-$500k tier is -9.4% — the rise is mix shift, not appreciation. Over the same year the under-$500k share of sales moved from 53.7% to 42.8% (-10.9pp) and the $1M+ share from 16.7% to 21.0% (+4.2pp).
Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier
1 tier 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
$143k
$155
34
14.8%
ZIP
$250k–$500k
$356k
$307
64
27.9%
ZIP
$500k–$750k
$598k
$416
57
24.9%
ZIP
$750k–$1M
$878k
$425
26
11.4%
ZIP
$1M–$1.5M
$1.25M
$518
28
12.2%
ZIP
$1.5M–$2M
$1.70M
$454
49
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COUNTY · Greenville, SC
$2M+
$3.16M
$718
16
7.0%
ZIP
All sales (the headline median)
$535k
$369
229
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.
Under $250k
$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 29601.
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.
Greenville County contextmacro · jobs · debt · migration
ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.
Greenville County
County-level context for ZIP 29601
Verified — Greenville County
Moderate (39)
ZIP 29601→Greenville County, SC
12-Month Direction
+3Stable
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
Why this score
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
39· 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.