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The median asking price in Mount Pleasant is about $1,023,000 as of Sep 2026, down 3.0% from a year ago. The typical listing is 6% smaller than a year ago, and asking price per square foot is up 7.5%. 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 if you move fast. Sellers have more pull in Mount Pleasant than usual. Compared with 2017–2019 at this time of year, there are 48% fewer homes for sale, and the typical listing has been up 18% fewer days. Good homes go under contract quickly. If you want one, be ready to move in days.
Asking price per square foot in Mount Pleasant is up 7.5% over the last year. Over five years the pace has been 8.4% a year. Underwrite closer to that than to the last twelve months.
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The median asking price is 20.1% below its Jun 2024 peak. Per square foot the gap is smaller: 4.6% below the Jun 2024 high. Part of the drop is smaller homes coming to market. Prices are rising again. Every month you wait costs money. The question is no longer when. It is which house. Mount Pleasant prices have risen in 91 of the last 111 months. Drops here have been short and shallow. Buying in a slow month has rarely hurt a long hold.
If you plan to sell in the next two years, move it up. This much buyer demand does not last. Right now it does your negotiating for you.
For every 100 homes still for sale, 41 are under contract. In 2017–2019 at this time of year it was 34. The rest are still waiting for a buyer. About 1 in 5 sellers has already dropped their price. Each one has learned their first price was too high. Start your offer below their new price.
The typical Mount Pleasant listing has been on the market 57 days. That is 12% longer than a year ago. There are 397 homes for sale in Mount Pleasant. That is 6.0 times the tightest month on record, but below the peak of 879. Supply is shrinking against last year.
In Mount Pleasant, 26 out of every 100 households rent. Most own their home. That share has held steady for five years. Mount Pleasant added about 1,300 renter households in five years. Renter households average 1.8 people. Singles and couples rent here. Two bedrooms beat four.
Households grew 16% in five years. The housing stock grew 19%. Supply is outrunning demand. 10.2% of homes sit empty. Tenants have options. Budget extra weeks of vacancy between leases.
The median Mount Pleasant household earns $120,894 a year. Incomes here have grown 3.8% a year since 2019. Home prices have outrun incomes. Locals are being priced out. A typical home costs 8.5 times the median income. Most locals cannot buy. That keeps rental demand deep. It also caps the rent they can pay. At 30% of income, a tenant on the median income can pay about $3,022 a month.
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Read cash flow versus appreciation and how we read these numbers, then run the numbers on a deal.
The median asking price in Mount Pleasant is about $1,023,000 as of Sep 2026, down 3.0% from a year ago. The typical listing is 6% smaller than a year ago, and asking price per square foot is up 7.5%. 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 Mount Pleasant figures cover the 3 ZIP codes with a Mount Pleasant mailing address, which can reach past city limits.
Sellers have more pull in Mount Pleasant than usual. We compare Mount Pleasant with 2017–2019 at this time of year: there are 48% fewer homes for sale; the typical listing has been up 18% fewer days; there are 41 pending sales per 100 listings, against 34 then.
The median asking price is 20.1% below its Jun 2024 peak. Per square foot the gap is smaller: 4.6% below the Jun 2024 high. Part of the drop is smaller homes coming to market. Prices are rising again. Every month you wait costs money. The question is no longer when. It is which house.
Across 9 full years, Mount Pleasant asking prices ran lowest in January, about 4.0% below the year's average. They peaked in May. The most homes for sale show up in July, about 11% above the yearly average.
Assume +8.0% a year. Mount Pleasant has grown about 8.4% 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 rose 7.5% 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 Charleston County is $1,787 a month for 2 bedrooms and $2,222 for 3 bedrooms. The figures include tenant-paid utilities and cover the whole county.
Mount Pleasant has three ZIP codes. Each links to its live market dashboard.
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