february 2018
Brunswick County
T $1.3 BILLION, list and sold volume in Brunswick
County came in just under that of New Hanover
County, but closed more sales with 6,122. Days
on market dropped nearly 16 percent. The county
saw a 10 percent increase in median sales price
and ended the year with 758 additional sales waiting to close.
Half of the top 10 sales in Brunswick County were on Bald
Head Island. Prices declined on the private island with the top
sale being 22 percent less than the previous year’s top dollar sale
of $2.4 million. Yet it was still a strong year.
“Real Estate sales on Bald Head Island saw a dramatic turn in
2017 from 2016. Sales grew 54 percent in all areas of real estate,
and residential home sales grew by percent,” says Wendy Wilmot
of Wendy Wilmot Properties.
The top sale county-wide and on Bald Head Island was
waterfront, No. 207 Row Boat Row, Bald Head Island Harbour
Village, which sold for $1.851 million in May. This 4,000sf, 4
bedroom, 5 bath home was built in 2006.
The second-highest sale in the county and at Bald Head Island
was not waterfront. 1 Keelson Row Unit A, also at Bald Head
Island Harbour Village, with 4 bedrooms and 6 baths, sold for
$1.8 million in August.
The top sale at Oak Island, 121 SE 67th Street, was the No. 4
sale in the county. This waterfront Turtle Creek, 2-story, 4 bed-room,
6 bath home sold for $1.583 million in June.
Sunset Beach’s top sale was just slightly lower at $1.525 million
for 158 East First St., the fifth top sale for the county, sold in May.
On Ocean Isle Beach, the top sale was waterfront 5 bedroom, 5
bath at 105 West Main Street, selling in April for $1.505 million.
The eighth highest sale in the county was Holden Beach’s
waterfront 1353 Ocean Blvd. West. This 6 bedroom, 6 bath,
2-story home sold for $1.5 million in September.
PHOTO COURTESY WENDY WILMOT PROPERTIES
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