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
Balanced Market
DOM: 57d (rising) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)25
Valuation Gap (25%)40
Supply & Demand (20%)85
Buy vs Rent (15%)100
Cancellation Rate (10%)0
Days on Market (5%)60
Balanced market in 27540. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Payment burden: 28.3% of median income. Median days on market: 57. Renting is approximately 121% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 26.5).
Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.
STABLEBALANCED
Market is holding steady with balanced conditions. Conditions are balanced between buyers and sellers.
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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 -5.0% YoY in this ZIP, but the under-$500k tier is +0.0% — the aggregate and the entry tier are moving together. Over the same year the under-$500k share of sales moved from 26.2% to 31.7% (+5.5pp) and the $1M+ share from 3.7% to 6.8% (+3.1pp).
Current tiers · 12 months to Aug 25floor 10 sales/tier
3 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
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COUNTY · Wake, NC
$250k–$500k
$400k
$230
226
30.6%
ZIP
$500k–$750k
$625k
$233
245
33.2%
ZIP
$750k–$1M
$825k
$243
209
28.3%
ZIP
$1M–$1.5M
$1.15M
$290
46
6.2%
ZIP
$1.5M–$2M
$1.65M
$377
259
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COUNTY · Wake, NC
$2M+
$2.43M
$470
156
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COUNTY · Wake, NC
All sales (the headline median)
$637k
$236
738
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 27540.
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.
Wake County contextmacro · jobs · debt · migration
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 Wake (77.5%), Johnston (17.5%) and Mecklenburg (5%). County metrics below are shown separately for each county.
Wake (77.5%)
Johnston (17.5%)
Mecklenburg (5%)
ZIP 27540→3 counties
12-Month Direction
-6Stable
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
33· Distressed
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 Burden51
29.2%
stretched
Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15
Buy vs Rent0
2.064x
rent advantage
Source: Lotvox · Updated 2026-05-15
Valuation10
+65.6%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Supply/Demand9
2.8 mo
balanced
Source: Lotvox MLS · Updated 2026-05-15
Insurance Risk
47/100
moderate
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators remain stronger than national averages.
Unemployment Rate
3.0%
NC 3.5%US 4.4%
Lower than most U.S. counties
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0667d ago
Poverty Rate
7.2%
NC 12.9%US 12.6%
Lower than most U.S. counties
Median Household Income
$101,763
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)$482,534
County data: BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA · Coverage derived from property records · Counties with <2% coverage excluded as likely data errors
