Market Data
Perquimans County Market Activity Report
Sourced county context, and a straight answer about what is not on this page yet
Read this before the numbers
The figures on this page are Census Bureau county demographics, not market activity. They tell you what the housing stock and the households look like. They do not tell you what houses are selling for this month, and I am not going to present them as if they did.
The MLS feed is live — the active listing count below is real, sourced, and refreshes on every build. What I don't publish is a price band or a days-on-market figure: this county is too thin a market for either to mean what it would mean somewhere bigger, and a misleading median is worse than none. If you want to know what the market is actually doing right now, call me and I will tell you.
County Context — U.S. Census Bureau
What a market this size actually behaves like
The county has fewer than 7,000 housing units in total and about 13,500 people. In a market that size, individual transactions carry outsized weight on any median or average: one high-end waterfront closing, or one distressed sale, can move a monthly figure enough to tell a story that is not really there. That is the honest reason I am cautious about publishing market medians here even once the feed is live, and why I would rather show you the actual active list than a headline number derived from it.
Two consequences that matter to you as a buyer. Inventory matching a specific set of criteria may simply not exist in the month you start looking, so patience is a strategy here rather than a personality trait. And comparable sales can be genuinely scarce, which occasionally produces appraisal friction on financed purchases — worth raising with your lender in week one rather than discovering in week five.
What I would use instead of a market median
- The actual active list. When the feed is connected, the listings pages show every active property with its price. In a county this size that is a more useful picture than any average of it.
- The Census figures above, for exactly what they are: a description of the existing housing stock and the households in it, with a stated vintage.
- A conversation. I see what goes under contract and at what, including things that never make it into a monthly statistic. In a market this thin that is genuinely the best data available, and it is a phone call.
Financing context, which does not move month to month
- FHA one-unit limit: $805,000 (HUD, CY2026) — the highest of any North Carolina county. See the FHA page.
- Conforming limit: $832,750 (FHFA, 2026) — the ordinary national baseline.
- USDA: the entire county is eligible, including the town of Hertford. See the USDA page.
- Property tax FY2026–27: $0.55 per $100 county-wide, ~$1.07 combined inside the town of Hertford or Winfall (municipal add-on carried over from the prior year, not independently reverified). Last revaluation 2024 (NC Department of Revenue).
- Plus a 1% local land transfer tax at recording — one of only seven NC counties. See the transfer tax page.
There is no RPR report embedded on this page
Sibling sites in this family embed a Realtors Property Resource market activity report. There is no Perquimans County report yet, and embedding another county's report under a Perquimans heading would show you the wrong county's data. So the slot is empty rather than wrong. Past reports will collect at the report archive once there are reports to archive.
Go Deeper
The data tells you what. The brief tells you why.
Eight chapters on the county, the river, the old houses, the commute and the money.