If You List This Fall, How Much Competition Would You Actually Be Up Against?

If You List This Fall, How Much Competition Would You Actually Be Up Against?

In the twelve weeks ending September 13, 2026, homes sold faster than a year earlier in Calabash, Little River and North Myrtle Beach, even as unsold inventory differs sharply between them.

If you’ve been sitting on the idea of listing in Calabash, Little River, or North Myrtle Beach this fall, you’ve probably wondered two things: how many other houses would you be competing with, and would yours sit for months once it went up. The twelve weeks ending September 13, 2026 give a real answer, and it’s more specific than “the market is good.”

Start with the competition question, because that’s what supply actually measures. In Calabash, the homes currently listed work out to about 4.4 months of supply at the pace homes have been selling. Put plainly, if not one more listing came on the market there, it would take a little over four months to sell through everything sitting on it now.

Little River has more room. Its inventory comes out to about 5.2 months of supply, the loosest of the three markets in this report.

North Myrtle Beach falls in between, at about 4.8 months of supply.

None of those numbers happened in isolation. All three markets share something else: homes are also closing faster than they were a year ago.

In Calabash, the median home sold in 112 days this period, down from 134 days at this point last year.

In Little River, the median time on market came in at 100 days, versus 116.5 days a year earlier.

In North Myrtle Beach, the median was 98.5 days, compared with 114 days the year before.

**Every market in the territory moved the same direction on speed, which is not something you see every period.** That kind of unanimity is worth taking seriously on its own.

Price is where the agreement breaks. Little River’s median sale price fell about 3% compared with a year earlier.

Calabash moved the opposite way, with its median sale price up about 4.5% compared with a year earlier.

North Myrtle Beach also gained, up about 4% compared with a year earlier.

So the same three markets that are all selling faster are not all selling for more. Little River buyers are getting a bit more time and a slightly lower price to work with; Calabash and North Myrtle Beach sellers are getting both speed and a stronger number.

In practice, that means a seller in Calabash or North Myrtle Beach this fall is likely to close a few weeks sooner than a year ago, and probably at a firmer price. A buyer shopping in Little River has more homes to choose from relative to the pace of sales, and a market that has actually eased on price rather than tightened.

Across the whole territory, 952 homes sold in this window, down from 1,118 in the same window a year earlier. Fewer transactions did not mean stuck houses. It meant the ones that did sell moved through faster, not slower.

If sellers keep closing this quickly next period, and supply in Little River keeps loosening rather than tightening back up, that says this speed is becoming the normal pace here rather than a one-time blip. If days on market start drifting back toward last year’s pace in any of the three markets, that’s the number that would say this report caught a moment rather than a trend.

This is based on MLS sold data for Calabash, Little River and North Myrtle Beach.

If you’re wondering what your own place would list for at this pace, that’s a fair question to ask now rather than guess at. Reach out for a current home value estimate and we’ll walk through what these numbers mean for your street specifically.