The median home in Cumberland County listed for $269,775 in January, slightly up from the previous month’s $269,500, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.
Compared to January 2025, the median home list price decreased 13% from $309,900.
The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Cumberland County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.fayobserver.com.
Cumberland County’s median home was 1,782 square feet, listed at $155 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is mostly unchanged from January 2025.
Listings in Cumberland County moved steadily, at a median 70 days listed compared to the January national median of 78 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 67 days on the market. Around 360 homes were newly listed on the market in January, a 3.7% decrease from 374 new listings in January 2025.
The median home prices issued by Realtor.com may exclude many, or even most, of a market’s homes. The price and volume represent only single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales.
Across the Fayetteville metro area, median home prices fell to $289,000, slightly lower than a month earlier. The median home had 1,852 square feet, at a list price of $155 per square foot.
In North Carolina, median home prices were $396,000, a slight decrease from December. The median North Carolina home listed for sale had 1,890 square feet, with a price of $212 per square foot.
Throughout the United States, the median home price was $399,900, a slight decrease from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,788 square feet, with a price of $220 per square foot.
The median home list price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. Experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what’s happening in a market than the average list price, which would mean taking the sum of all listing prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high price.
USA TODAY Co. is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Realtor.com. Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu.
This article originally appeared on The Fayetteville Observer: See the higher median price for January home listings in Cumberland County
