Market reports · January 2026
Burlington housing market, January 2026
The typical Burlington-area home was worth $293,627 in January, up 0.7% from a year ago.
FHFA’s repeat-sales index for the Burlington metro is up 3.7% over the year through Q4 2025. 135 homes sold across Alamance County in January, down 18.2% from a year earlier; 523 were for sale at the end of the month.
Compiled by Carolina Expansion Partners from public data (Zillow, FHFA and Freddie Mac via FRED, Redfin); questions to Matt MacLanders at (336) 585-8391. Home values and rents are for Alamance County; the repeat-sales index covers the Burlington metro; sale prices and days on market are for Alamance County, counts cover Alamance County.
- Typical home value
- $293,627
- +0.7% vs a year ago · Zillow (ZHVI), Alamance County · +0.4% vs last month
- Repeat-sales index
- +3.7%
- year over year · FHFA, Burlington metro, Q4 2025
- Typical rent
- $1,317
- +3.3% vs a year ago · Zillow (ZORI), Alamance County, per month
- 30-year rate
- 6.10%
- national average, week of January 29 · Freddie Mac
- Median sale price (mix-sensitive)
- $344,900
- +17.7% vs a year ago · Redfin, Alamance County, January
- Homes sold
- 135
- −18.2% vs a year ago · Redfin, in January
- For sale
- 523
- −25.1% vs a year ago · Redfin, end of January
- Median days on market
- 42
- −15 days vs a year ago · Redfin, list to contract
No. 01
Typical home value, last 24 months
Zillow Home Value Index for Alamance County: all homes, middle price tier, smoothed and seasonally adjusted. The red line is the 6-month average.
No. 02
Same-home prices, last 5 years
FHFA All-Transactions House Price Index, quarterly, not seasonally adjusted; both lines set to 100 in Q4 2020. Built from repeat sales and refinance appraisals of the same homes with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac mortgages. Latest quarter: Q4 2025; North Carolina +3.3% year over year.
No. 03
Median sale price, last 24 months
Redfin, Alamance County, all residential property types, through January 2026. Monthly medians move with the mix of homes that happened to sell; the 12-month average smooths that out.
No. 04
Homes for sale vs. homes sold
Redfin, Alamance County, all residential property types, through January 2026.
No. 05
By town, January 2026
| Town | Typical value | Value vs. last year | Median sale | Sold | Median days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BurlingtonAlamance Co. | $255,178 | +0.2% | $295,000 | 47 | 38 |
| GrahamAlamance Co. | $290,844 | +0.1% | $344,900 | 19 | 77 |
| MebaneAlamance Co. | $354,483 | +0.1% | $396,490 | 18 | 119 |
| SwepsonvilleAlamance Co. | $353,690 | +1.6% | $355,000 | 6 | 29 |
| ElonAlamance Co. | $349,708 | +1.0% | $377,000 | 3 | 8 |
| Snow CampAlamance Co. | $312,426 | +2.8% | — | — | — |
| Haw RiverAlamance Co. | $299,755 | −1.7% | — | — | — |
Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index by city or town as Zillow defines it, January. Median sale, sold and days: Redfin, January, as Redfin defines each town; a median of a few sales says little (towns with fewer than 10 sales are not compared year over year).
No. 06
How homes sold, January 2026
- Sale-to-list
- 97.8%
- +0.2 pts vs a year ago · average
- Sold above list
- 14%
- +3.2 pts vs a year ago · share of sales
- Price drops
- 35%
- +11.5 pts vs a year ago · share of listings
- Months of supply
- 3.9
- −0.3 vs a year ago · at the recent sales pace
Redfin, Alamance County.
No. 07
30-year mortgage rate
6.10%
National average, week of January 29, 2026 · −0.05 pts over 4 weeks
- 6.15%12/31
- 6.16%1/8
- 6.06%1/15
- 6.09%1/22
- 6.10%1/29
If you’re buying
- The national average 30-year fixed rate was 6.10% in the week of January 29.
- Zillow’s typical asking rent for Alamance County was $1,317 a month in January, up 3.3% from a year ago.
- Homes in Alamance County spent a median 42 days on the market before going under contract in January.
- 35% of homes for sale had a price cut during January.
- On average, homes sold for 97.8% of their final list price.
If you’re selling
- Zillow’s typical home value for Alamance County was up 0.4% from December to January.
- FHFA’s repeat-sales index for the Burlington metro, which compares the same homes’ prices over time, was up 3.7% over the year through Q4 2025.
- 14% of homes sold for more than their list price.
- There were 3.9 months of supply: how long the homes for sale would last at the recent pace of sales.
- 162 new listings came on the market in January, down 43.6% from a year earlier.
These are area-wide figures. A particular street, price range or home can differ; they are not a forecast or a valuation.
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Sources
- Data by Redfin, a national real estate brokerage. Redfin Data Center market tracker: sales, listings, inventory, days on market, sale-to-list and price drops.
- Zillow Research: Zillow Home Value Index. Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI, typical home value) and Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI, typical asking rent).
- FHFA House Price Index via FRED. U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, All-Transactions House Price Index for our metro areas and North Carolina (repeat sales of the same homes), retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
- Freddie Mac via FRED. Freddie Mac, 30-Year Fixed Rate Mortgage Average in the United States [MORTGAGE30US], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Public data only. These reports use no Triad MLS data; listing figures on our market pages are separate. Sources revise past months and quarters, so figures here can change after publication. Numbers describe homes and sales, not the people who buy or live in them.