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The median asking price in Fayetteville is about $259,000 as of Sep 2026, down 7.6% from a year ago. The typical listing is 5% smaller than a year ago, and asking price per square foot is down 1.1%. So the size of homes on the market explains much of the drop. That is the asking price on listed homes, so sold-price and home-value sites show different numbers (why).
Only on the right house. Neither side has the upper hand in Fayetteville right now. The signals split. Compared with 2017–2019 at this time of year, there are 21% fewer homes for sale, but 22% of sellers have cut their price, against 12% then. The market will not hand you a discount. You have to find it in one specific listing.
46% of occupied homes in Fayetteville's ZIP codes are rented, more than in 80% of the cities we track. HUD's county-wide fair market rent for 2 bedrooms is $1,251 a month, including utilities. A deep renter pool shortens vacancy. It also means you compete with other landlords on condition and price.
In Fayetteville, 46 out of every 100 households rent. That is nearly half. The renter share is shrinking. Five years ago it was 50 in 100. Fayetteville lost about 2,600 renter households in five years. Renter households average 2.3 people. Two and three bedrooms fit the typical renter.
Households grew 3% in five years. The housing stock shrank 3%. Demand is outrunning supply. 9.6% of homes sit empty. That is normal for a healthy market.
The median Fayetteville household earns $61,198 a year. Incomes here have grown 5.7% a year since 2019. Incomes and home prices are rising in step. A typical home costs 4.2 times the median income. That is the national middle. Neither cash flow nor appreciation is free here. At 30% of income, a tenant on the median income can pay about $1,530 a month.
To see what one Fayetteville address would rent for and cash flow, run it through the app.
HUD sets one fair market rent for Cumberland County. For fiscal year 2026:
The figures include tenant-paid utilities and apply to all of Cumberland County, so one home's rent can sit well above or below them. See fair market rent by city.
Ranked among the 21 North Carolina markets we track:
The median asking price is 16.5% below its Jun 2023 peak. Per square foot the gap is smaller: 2.8% below the Apr 2025 high. Part of the drop is smaller homes coming to market. Prices stopped falling about a year ago. They are flat now. Waiting will not get you a cheaper house. It might still get you a more motivated seller. Fayetteville prices have risen in 96 of the last 111 months. Drops here have been short and shallow. Buying in a slow month has rarely hurt a long hold.
This market is turning. Which way is not settled yet. Check the monthly numbers above before you commit.
Read whether a market fits Section 8 tenants and how we read these numbers, then run the numbers on a deal.
The median asking price in Fayetteville is about $259,000 as of Sep 2026, down 7.6% from a year ago. The typical listing is 5% smaller than a year ago, and asking price per square foot is down 1.1%. So the size of homes on the market explains much of the drop. This is the asking price on homes listed for sale. Sites that report sold prices or estimated home values will show a different number. Our Fayetteville figures cover the 10 ZIP codes with a Fayetteville mailing address, which can reach past city limits.
Neither side has the upper hand in Fayetteville right now. We compare Fayetteville with 2017–2019 at this time of year: 22% of sellers have cut their price, against 12% then; there are 21% fewer homes for sale; the typical listing has been up 14% fewer days.
The median asking price is 16.5% below its Jun 2023 peak. Per square foot the gap is smaller: 2.8% below the Apr 2025 high. Part of the drop is smaller homes coming to market. Prices stopped falling about a year ago. They are flat now. Waiting will not get you a cheaper house. It might still get you a more motivated seller.
28303. Only 32 homes under contract for every 100 still for sale. 24% of sellers there have cut their price, and the typical listing has been up 59 days.
Across 9 full years, Fayetteville asking prices ran lowest in January, about 4.0% below the year's average. They peaked in June. The most homes for sale show up in November, about 8% above the yearly average.
Assume +6.1% a year. Fayetteville has grown about 6.1% a year for five years and for ten. That pace held before and after the 2020–2021 boom, so it is a fair long-run input. Prices fell 1.1% over the last year. Use it for timing. The five-year rate is the better guide.
HUD's fiscal year 2026 fair market rent for Cumberland County is $1,251 a month for 2 bedrooms and $1,667 for 3 bedrooms. The figures include tenant-paid utilities and cover the whole county.
ZIP 28304 is on both lists. That is rare. It is the one place in Fayetteville where leverage and growth overlap.
| ZIP | $/sqft, 2 yrs | $/sqft now | Buyers per home | For sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28312 | +4.5% | $163 | 0.40 | 98 |
| 28304 | +2.5% | $150 | 0.39 | 171 |
| 28314 | -1.6% | $145 | 0.45 | 238 |
| 28306 | -2.0% | $160 | 0.48 | 169 |
| 28305 | -2.6% | $160 | 0.27 | 61 |
Computed from each ZIP's own ten-year history. ZIPs with fewer than 10 homes for sale are excluded: a median across a handful of listings is noise, not a signal.
Fayetteville has ten ZIP codes. Each links to its live market dashboard.
Closest matches on asking price, price per square foot, time on market, buyer demand, and price cuts.
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