Homes for sale in Wilson, NC
A gigabit-wired county seat where whirligigs spin over a historic banking downtown and billion-dollar biotech is breaking ground.
88 homes for sale in Wilson right now · about $154/sqft · ~95 days on market
Every home for sale in Wilson
88 active listings in Wilson right now, live from Doorify MLS and updated hourly.
Homes for sale in Wilson
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Where people are buying in Wilson
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The local view
Wilson is a genuine mid-size city of roughly 48,000 and the seat of Wilson County, about 50 miles east of Raleigh. It grew up on tobacco and banking — BB&T, now Truist, was founded here in 1872 — and that legacy shows in a walkable brick downtown anchored by the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park, where 30 towering wind-powered sculptures built from salvaged machine parts spin year-round. Barton College, a private liberal-arts school dating to 1902, adds a leafy campus near the historic residential districts.
Buyers choose Wilson because it delivers city-scale amenities at prices that run well below Wake County — the same dollars stretch into bigger lots, historic Craftsman blocks, or brand-new construction. Every address can tap Greenlight, the community-owned fiber network that made Wilson North Carolina's first gigabit city, a real advantage for remote workers. And the job news keeps coming: Johnson & Johnson is building a multi-billion-dollar biologics campus at Wilson Corporate Park and has announced a second major manufacturing facility in the city, with hundreds of high-wage jobs between them.
Insight Residential Realty covers Wilson as part of its five-county MLS footprint — Wake, Franklin, Nash, Wilson, and Johnston — with live listing search right on this site. From our Zebulon office, Broker-in-Charge Robert Terry and the team work the U.S. 264 corridor every week, so we can tell you how a downtown historic district home compares with new construction near the corporate park, price your listing against real comps, and line up showings before the weekend.
What's actually sold in Wilson
The most recent closings recorded in Wilson — real prices, straight from the MLS.
| Sold for | Address | Home | Closed | On market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $225,000 | 4606 Wood Duck Road, Wilson, NC 27893 | 3 bd · 2 ba · 1,278 sqft | Jul 2026 | 73 days |
| $1,025,000 | 3207 Jennings Farm Drive NW, Wilson, NC 27896 | 5 bd · 4.5 ba · 5,543 sqft | Jul 2026 | 81 days |
| $450,000 | 1007 Nash Street NW, Wilson, NC 27893 | 4 bd · 2.5 ba · 2,728 sqft | Jul 2026 | 179 days |
| $355,000 | 4528 Fairhaven Drive W, Wilson, NC 27893 | 3 bd · 2 ba · 1,788 sqft | Jul 2026 | 112 days |
| $189,900 | 808 Crawford Street S, Wilson, NC 27893 | 4 bd · 2 ba · 1,520 sqft | Jul 2026 | 101 days |
| $110,000 | 1102 Delano Avenue SW, Wilson, NC 27893 | 2 bd · 1 ba · 860 sqft | Jul 2026 | 80 days |
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About 50 miles. Most drivers reach downtown Raleigh in roughly 50 minutes via U.S. 264, which also puts Zebulon, Knightdale, and the rest of the Triangle's eastern corridor on the way.
The Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park — 30 giant wind-powered sculptures in the heart of downtown — plus its banking heritage as the 1872 birthplace of BB&T (now Truist) and Greenlight, the community-owned network that made Wilson North Carolina's first gigabit city. The annual North Carolina Whirligig Festival brings the downtown to life each November.
Directionally, yes — typical home values in Wilson run well below Wake County's, so the same budget buys more house, more land, or a fully updated historic home. Use the live MLS search on this site to see current Wilson listings and compare them with the rest of our five-county area.
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