Commercial Real Estate Market in Beaufort, NC
Updated monthly: sale, lease, property records, location trend, and more… · Last update: October 31
17 active listings and 419 off-market properties in Beaufort, NC.
Market Trends
Beaufort, NC spans 125.7 square miles in Carteret County, North Carolina. Figures below refresh monthly; last updated 31 October 2026.
Office
Office vacancy in Beaufort, NC runs 20.2% across the South region in 2025, up from 14.4% in 2019.
Retail
Retail space in Beaufort, NC has a median asking sale price of $347/SF (based on 5 listings). Vacancy runs 5.4% across the South region in 2025, down from 7% in 2020.
Industrial
Industrial vacancy in Beaufort, NC runs 7.9% across the South region in 2025, up from 6% in 2019. Nearly 2.3x the 2022 low of 3.5%.
Multifamily
Multifamily space in Beaufort, NC has a median asking sale price of $308/SF (based on 3 listings). Vacancy runs 11.3% across the South region in 2025, up from 8.5% in 2022.
Zoning & Land Use
Land Use Mix share of zoned land by category
- Residential 50%
- Industrial 22.6%
- Planned_development 18.4%
- Commercial 8.7%
- Mixed use 0.3%
Largest Zones share of zoned land by district
Beaufort, NC zones 5,268 acres across 17 districts. Commercial zoning covers 8.7% of zoned land, residential 50% and industrial 22.6%. The largest single district is Residential Single Family at 33.1%. For commercial buyers the practical constraint is that only 31.3% of land carries a commercial or industrial designation.
A) R-20 Residential Single-Family District. Purpose: This residential district is intended to maintain a compatible mixture of single -family residential and bona fide farm uses with a density of two families per acre in accordance with the North Carolina State Board of Health recommendations for residential areas without public water and public sewer, and t…
Market overview
Demographics & Economy
Beaufort, NC has 11,204 residents in 7,183 households. Density runs 89 people per square mile. Median household income here is $63,257 and median gross rent $869 a month.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Methodology & data sources
- Asking prices and medians
- There are 14 active for-sale and 3 active for-lease listings in Beaufort, NC. The sale median is based on 11 of the for-sale listings that state a price per square foot; too few for-lease listings state a rent per square foot for a rent median. These are ASKING figures from live listings, not closed-transaction prices, and a figure resting on fewer than 10 listings says so where it is quoted.
- Vacancy rates
- Published per-sector market series, taken at the metro level where one exists and otherwise at the Census-region level — a chart reading "in <region> region" is a regional number, not this city's.
- Zoning and land use
- The current municipal zoning release: 5,268 zoned acres across 17 districts. Shares are of zoned land, so parcels the release leaves unclassified are excluded from the mix.
- Refresh
- The monthly aggregates close at the end of the previous month, so 31 October 2026 — not today — is the honest last update.
- Known limitations
- office vacancy is reported at South region level, retail vacancy is reported at South region level, industrial vacancy is reported at South region level and asking prices run materially above recent closed pricing.
- Coverage
- Metrics below the 10-observation threshold fall back one geographic level. The geography used is named on each figure.
Compiled by the Realmo Data team · reviewed 31 October 2026 · How Realmo checks market page data · Report a data issue
