Murrells Inlet Homes Are Selling Faster Than They Have in a Year

A year ago, a home in Murrells Inlet sat on the market a long time before it sold. The median was 118 days, nearly four months of showings, price conversations, and waiting.

This period, that number moved. Across the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026, the median days on market in Murrells Inlet fell to about 103 days. That is roughly two weeks shaved off a wait that was already long, and it is not a small or noisy shift. The comparison holds up against real scrutiny, drawn from 374 sales this period against 367 in the same window a year earlier.

It would be easy to read that as evidence of a market on fire everywhere along this coast. It is not. Across the whole territory, the median home sold in about 92 days, and the median sale price came in at roughly $349,900.

Murrells Inlet homes are still taking longer to go under contract than some of their neighbors. Median days to pending there runs about 72 days.

In the Myrtle Beach ZIP that includes Carolina Forest, the same measure runs about 54 days. One coastline, two different paces, even inside a single buy box.

So the story in Murrells Inlet is not that everything got hotter. It is that a market that had been genuinely slow got measurably less slow, on the one comparison in this report we can actually stand behind year over year. Sellers there faced real patience a year ago. This period asked less of them.

There is a second thread worth naming, because it cuts the other way. Pawleys Island's median sale price rose about 8% compared with a year earlier.

Every other ZIP in the territory moved the opposite direction on price even as speed shifted elsewhere in the territory. Murrells Inlet's own median sale price eased slightly compared with a year earlier, even as its days on market improved. Speed and price did not move together there.

For someone who owns in Murrells Inlet and has been waiting for the market to turn back in their favor, the days-on-market shift is real and it is theirs. A home that might have sat through a slow summer a year ago now has a better chance of moving before fall. For a buyer there, it means less leverage to wait out a seller than a year ago bought them.

For anyone weighing Murrells Inlet against the faster-moving Myrtle Beach ZIP near Carolina Forest, the gap is a reminder that this coast is not one market, even inside a single buy box.

What we will be watching next period is whether Murrells Inlet's faster pace holds once the summer selling season fully closes out, and whether the sale-to-list ratio there, currently about 97.5%, moves along with it. A market that sells faster without sellers giving up more on price is a different story than one where speed came from bigger discounts. Right now, the data says only that it took less time. Whether it lasts is next period's question.

Figures are drawn from MLS sold data.