Baldwin County’s housing market did not just hold steady in June. It grew — in price, in volume, and in the number of deals actually closing. Figures from the Baldwin REALTORS Multiple Listing Service show year-over-year increases in average sales prices and total sales volume across both the Resort and Traditional residential markets. Buyer demand held, and inventory levels stayed relatively stable countywide.
The combined totals underline the scale of the month. Between the Resort and Traditional segments, more than $368 million in residential real estate changed hands across Baldwin County in June, spread across nearly 700 closed sales. For a county whose economy is tied closely to the rhythm of the Gulf Coast seasons — and whose population has made it one of the fastest-growing in Alabama — those figures are watched closely by builders, lenders, municipal officials and property owners from Foley to Fairhope.
Baldwin County’s housing stock is effectively two markets operating side by side under one countywide label. The Resort market captures the vacation and second-home corridor along the Gulf — Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, Fort Morgan and the Ono Island area — where prices are driven by beach proximity, rental income potential and out-of-state buyers. The Traditional market covers the year-round housing stock in communities such as Bay Minette, Daphne, Fairhope, Foley, Loxley, Robertsdale, Spanish Fort and Summerdale, where sales track job growth, schools and commuter patterns along the Interstate 10 and Highway 98 corridors.
Because the two markets answer to different buyers, their performance often diverges, and June was a textbook example. The resort side delivered the fireworks; the traditional side delivered the stability.
The Resort Market Surged
The Resort Area posted the sharpest gains of the month. Average residential sales price came in at $747,105, up from $738,713 in June 2025. Closed residential sales climbed to 246, up from 198 a year earlier. Total residential sales volume reached $183,737,879, up from $146,265,248. Average days on market rose to 109 from 100, and new residential listings came in at 305, down slightly from 312.
The story in those numbers is volume, not price. Prices ticked up about 1%, but the number of properties actually changing hands rose by nearly a quarter — and total dollars moved climbed more than $37 million. Properties are taking a little longer to sell, but more of them are selling.
A jump in closings of that size, alongside a slight pullback in new listings, suggests that buyers were working through existing inventory rather than waiting on fresh product. In a resort market where a meaningful share of purchases is made by buyers from outside Alabama — drawn by the beach towns’ short-term rental economies, boating access and tournament-grade golf — that kind of absorption typically signals confidence in the coast’s income-producing potential rather than a speculative run.
The extra days on market deserve context as well. A nine-day increase in average marketing time is a modest shift for a segment where high-ticket properties routinely take months to find the right buyer, and where a handful of luxury closings can move the averages in either direction.
Resort Land: Fewer Parcels, Much Higher Prices
Land in the Resort Area told a different story. Activity dipped slightly while pricing jumped. Fifteen parcels sold, totaling $6,667,250, versus 17 parcels totaling $4,162,777 a year ago. The average land sales price came in at $444,483, up sharply from $244,869. Average days on market stretched to 227 from 65, and new land listings fell to 27 from 38.
Land is sitting much longer before it sells — but when it does sell, it is selling for far more. That combination generally points to scarcity of desirable parcels rather than a soft market.
That reading fits the geography. Buildable waterfront and near-waterfront tracts in the resort corridor — along Fort Morgan Peninsula, the canals and bayside lots of Orange Beach and the interior parcels zoned for higher-density development — have grown steadily scarcer as the beach communities mature. Each sale that closes tends to be a premium site, which pulls the average price upward even when the overall count of transactions slips. The long marketing times reflect the reality that land buyers are pickier and more patient than home buyers: a parcel may wait through multiple seasons for the purchaser who shares the seller’s vision for it.
For owners holding vacant lots in the resort area, the message of the month was double-edged: patience may be rewarded, but the market is rewarding only the best-positioned properties.
The Traditional Market Held Its Ground
Baldwin County’s Traditional Residential market — the year-round, non-resort housing stock — showed steadier, more modest movement. Average residential sales price rose to $418,446, up from $401,867. Closed sales were essentially flat at 441, against 440 a year earlier. Total residential sales volume came in at $184,535,022, up from $176,830,376. Average days on market ticked up to 63 from 59, and new residential listings numbered 634 versus 643.
In other words, the traditional market did what it has done through most of the county’s growth cycle: absorbed demand at a gradually rising price point without dramatic swings in either direction. A price gain of roughly 4% year over year, paired with nearly identical sales counts, points to a market where values are being supported by steady population growth — the school enrollments, subdivisions and commercial development that follow it — rather than by a burst of speculative activity.
The 63-day average marketing time remains well inside the range most sellers would call healthy. For a market segment that includes everything from starter homes in Foley to waterfront property on Mobile Bay, holding that pace while prices rise is a sign that the county’s year-round communities continue to draw the newcomers driving Baldwin’s population boom.
Traditional land sales softened modestly. Sixty-eight parcels sold for a combined $10,197,750, down from 72 parcels totaling $11,911,010 a year earlier. The average land price fell to $149,966 from $165,430 — though land did move faster, with days on market improving to 134 from 163.
The land figures in the traditional market are the mirror image of the resort side: prices down, but properties selling more quickly. In the county’s rural and suburban fringes — the agricultural tracts north of Interstate 10, the subdivision-ready parcels around Loxley and Silverhill, the lots feeding Foley’s steady growth — sellers appear to be adjusting expectations to close deals, and buyers are responding. Faster marketing times suggest that where land is priced for today’s market rather than last year’s, it still finds a purchaser.
How the Individual Areas Performed
Breaking the county down by market area shows the unevenness beneath the countywide totals:
Central Baldwin recorded 206 sales at an average price of $346,685, with homes spending 70 days on market — down 1.54% year over year. The area, anchored by Robertsdale, Summerdale, Foley and the communities along the Highway 59 corridor, remains one of the county’s highest-volume markets.
Coastal Condos posted 118 sales at an average of $664,806, with units sitting 137 days on market — down 9.19%. Coastal Homes, the detached beach houses of the Gulf front and bay side, sold 133 units at an average of $826,072 in just 59 days on market — up 6.87%. The contrast between the two coastal segments is striking: detached homes near the water are moving briskly and appreciating, while condominiums are taking more than four months on average to sell and losing value.
The Eastern Shore logged 205 sales at an average of $513,657 with 59 days on market — up 11.17%, the strongest performer of the month by percentage gain. The area’s draws are familiar to anyone who has watched Baldwin County grow: bay access, established communities in Daphne, Fairhope and Spanish Fort, and a commute to Mobile that keeps it connected to the metro job market.
North Baldwin recorded 26 sales at an average of $239,119 with just 46 days on market — down 12.24%. It remains the county’s smallest and most affordable market area, moving fewer units but at the fastest pace.
The Eastern Shore was the strongest performer of the month by percentage gain. Coastal condos were the weakest, with prices down more than 9% and units sitting on the market for over four months on average — a soft spot worth watching for owners considering a sale. Condominium buyers weigh insurance costs, association fees and rental histories alongside location, and in a market with plenty of alternatives, overpriced units simply wait.
A Note on the Numbers
Baldwin REALTORS cautioned that recent updates to MLS area definitions may produce slight differences when comparing these statistics against previously published reports. Market areas are now drawn from objective geographic boundaries rather than legacy MLS designations, so direct year-over-year comparisons at the sub-area level should be read with that adjustment in mind.
For buyers, sellers and observers of Baldwin County’s growth, June’s report offered a consistent theme: demand on the Alabama Gulf Coast remains broad enough to lift both the beach market and the year-round one, even as the two segments move at different speeds. The county’s challenge — and its opportunity — is that the parcels and properties everyone wants are the ones moving fastest.