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Median list price and the assigned base schools for each area. Attendance areas change — always confirm current assignment with the district before you rely on it.
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What was built here and when, how big the lots are, whether there is an HOA, how far it is to work, and which schools the district currently assigns. That is the whole list — and it is deliberate.
You will not find a single sentence on this site describing the people who live anywhere. Steering buyers toward or away from areas on the basis of who lives there is illegal, and the soft version of it — “you'd love it here”, “not really your kind of street” — is how it usually happens. We describe housing. Our full statement.
Raleigh, NC · Wake County
4 listed · $785K median
A grid of pre-war streets north-west of downtown built out between the 1920s and the 1940s, so almost everything here is a bungalow, a Cape Cod or a small two-storey on a modest city lot.
Everything about Five Points
Raleigh, NC · Wake County
3 listed · $869K median
Raleigh’s oldest intact residential district, immediately east of the Capitol. Twenty blocks of Victorian, Queen Anne and early-1900s homes inside a locally designated historic overlay.
Everything about Historic Oakwood
Raleigh, NC · Wake County
5 listed · $615K median
A small pocket north of downtown built mostly between 1910 and 1950, with a mix of one-storey cottages, bungalows and a growing number of narrow infill houses on split lots.
Everything about Mordecai
Raleigh, NC · Wake County
5 listed · $640K median
A 1950s-and-60s ranch neighbourhood wrapped around a mid-century shopping centre that has been rebuilt as a mixed-use district, so the housing runs from original brick ranches to new mid-rise condos.
Everything about North Hills
Raleigh, NC · Wake County
4 listed · $505K median
A planned district on Raleigh’s north-west edge built almost entirely between 1999 and 2015, laid out as connected pods of townhomes, patio homes and detached houses around a golf course and a retail centre.
Everything about Brier Creek
Raleigh, NC · Wake County
3 listed · $585K median
A large master-planned community in far north Raleigh built out from the mid-1990s, organised as villages around a golf course with its own school campus cluster and retail node.
Everything about Wakefield
Cary, NC · Wake County
3 listed · $895K median
A 1980s-and-90s golf community in west Cary built as a series of gated and ungated villages, with a large share of brick-front two-storeys on wooded lots.
Everything about Preston, Cary
Apex, NC · Wake County
3 listed · $595K median
The pre-war core of Apex around Salem Street, with a compact grid of early-1900s houses and a ring of 1990s and 2000s subdivisions immediately outside it.
Everything about Downtown Apex
Holly Springs, NC · Wake County
4 listed · $545K median
A town on the south-west edge of Wake County that grew from roughly 900 homes in 1990 to a broad spread of subdivisions, so most of the housing stock is under thirty years old.
Everything about Holly Springs
Fuquay-Varina, NC · Wake County
3 listed · $455K median
Two former railroad villages that merged into one town, so there are two small historic centres and a wide belt of subdivisions built since 2000 between and around them.
Everything about Fuquay-Varina
Wake Forest, NC · Wake County
4 listed · $525K median
A town north of Raleigh built around the campus the university left in 1956, with a walkable pre-war core of two-storey frame houses and a large ring of subdivisions added since 1998.
Everything about Wake Forest
Knightdale, NC · Wake County
3 listed · $405K median
A town directly east of Raleigh along US-64, where most of the housing was built after 2003 in subdivisions laid out around Knightdale Station Park.
Everything about Knightdale
Clayton, NC · Johnston County
2 listed · $425K median
A golf community on the Neuse River in western Johnston County, just over the Wake County line, built out from the late 1990s onward. Different county, and therefore a different school district.
Everything about Riverwood, Clayton
Garner, NC · Wake County
4 listed · $385K median
A town on Raleigh’s southern edge with a 1950s-to-70s core of brick ranches and split-levels, plus subdivisions and townhome clusters added steadily since the late 1990s.
Everything about Garner
Morrisville, NC · Wake County
2 listed · $515K median
A town wedged between RDU airport and RTP, built out almost entirely after 1995 as a dense mix of townhomes, condos and small-lot detached houses.
Everything about Morrisville
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