Housing in Pawleys Island
Pawleys Island's housing market is genuinely expensive, slower-moving, and carries real, disclosed price-data uncertainty this session -- including one implausible outlier figure this record deliberately does not use as a headline number.
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Learn moreA genuinely high-end, slower-moving market
Zillow's average home value was $548,832 (July 2026, essentially flat YoY). The market scores a low 25 out of 100 on Redfin's competitiveness scale, with homes taking 74 days to sell on average -- notably longer than the 56-day national average, consistent with a smaller, more niche luxury/second-home market rather than a fast-turnover starter-home market.
A disclosed, implausible outlier figure -- read carefully
One Redfin query this session returned a $2.0 million median sale price (+169.6% YoY over the three months ending May 2026) -- a figure this record does NOT use as representative, since it is inconsistent by nearly 4x with Zillow's $548,832 average value and most plausibly reflects a tiny handful of ultra-high-end closings skewing a small-N monthly median (consistent with the incorporated town's tiny total housing stock). Disclosed honestly as an unreliable data point rather than silently dropped or presented at face value.
A separate, more consistent set of figures
A $567,000 median sale price (+8% YoY) and a $545,000 median listing price (July 2026) both sit in a more internally consistent range with Zillow's average value -- treat these, together, as the more reliable current price picture, while still confirming directly with a local agent before making a decision.
Key takeaways
- Pawleys Island's housing market is genuinely expensive and slower-moving (74 days average on market vs. 56 national average, competitiveness score of 25/100).
- One sourced figure ($2.0M median sale) is disclosed as an implausible outlier this record does not treat as representative.
- More internally consistent figures ($545,000-$567,000) form the more reliable current price picture.
- Confirm current, address-specific pricing directly with a local agent given the real disagreement across sources this session.
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