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Home appreciation in Hilton Head Island, SC

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Hilton Head Island, SC grew an average of 12.4% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+5.9%

2025 over 2024. South Carolina: +4.9%.

5-year, per year

+12.4%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. South Carolina: +10.7%.

10-year, per year

+8.8%

+131.8% in total since 2015. South Carolina: +8.0%.

How does your home compare?

Hilton Head Island, SC home prices rose 131.8% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +90.9% to +165.3%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Hilton Head Island, SC compares with South Carolina

South Carolina averaged +10.7% a year, so Hilton Head Island, SC grew faster than the state overall. For five-year price growth, Hilton Head Island, SC ranks 4th out of 409 metros nationwide and 1st out of 8 in South Carolina.

Index, 2005 = 100

Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC and South Carolina, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearHilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SCSouth Carolina
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2102102
2005 Q3107104
2005 Q4112107
2006 Q1114108
2006 Q2120110
2006 Q3122112
2006 Q4122114
2007 Q1125115
2007 Q2124116
2007 Q3123116
2007 Q4126117
2008 Q1124118
2008 Q2123117
2008 Q3117115
2008 Q4116116
2009 Q1118117
2009 Q2114116
2009 Q3109112
2009 Q4109111
2010 Q1104109
2010 Q2100108
2010 Q3103109
2010 Q4100108
2011 Q196106
2011 Q295103
2011 Q395104
2011 Q494105
2012 Q192103
2012 Q292103
2012 Q390103
2012 Q494103
2013 Q190103
2013 Q289104
2013 Q390104
2013 Q491104
2014 Q191104
2014 Q293106
2014 Q395107
2014 Q495108
2015 Q196110
2015 Q299111
2015 Q3102112
2015 Q4101113
2016 Q1101114
2016 Q2103116
2016 Q3105119
2016 Q4107119
2017 Q1111120
2017 Q2104122
2017 Q3112125
2017 Q4110125
2018 Q1113128
2018 Q2116130
2018 Q3116131
2018 Q4119132
2019 Q1120134
2019 Q2121137
2019 Q3122138
2019 Q4125140
2020 Q1125142
2020 Q2126143
2020 Q3128145
2020 Q4133148
2021 Q1135152
2021 Q2144160
2021 Q3155169
2021 Q4162177
2022 Q1171185
2022 Q2179197
2022 Q3192204
2022 Q4188206
2023 Q1202207
2023 Q2201213
2023 Q3213219
2023 Q4214221
2024 Q1216223
2024 Q2211229
2024 Q3221231
2024 Q4223233
2025 Q1230237
2025 Q2230239
2025 Q3231242
2025 Q4230243
2026 Q1234245
2026 Q2236248

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +8.8% a year over ten years, +131.8% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2007, fell 27.4% to its 2013 low, and regained the 2007 level in 2020.

The strongest year was 2022 at +22.5%, and the weakest was 2010 at -9.6%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +5.9%, against +4.9% for the state.

ZIP codes in Hilton Head Island, SC

Over the ten years to 2025, the 10 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +90.9% in 29909 to +165.3% in 29935, while the metro as a whole rose 131.8%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 29935+165.3%
  2. 29902+136.4%
  3. 29926+125.2%
  4. 29906+125.1%
  5. 29910+115.1%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 29909+90.9%
  2. 29920+98.2%
  3. 29907+100.8%
  4. 29936+105.6%
  5. 29927+110.7%
ZIP codes in Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
29935-2.5%+11.5%+10.2%+165.3%
29902+3.5%+12.2%+9.0%+136.4%
29926+10.9%+13.3%+8.5%+125.2%
29906-0.6%+12.2%+8.5%+125.1%
29910+0.7%+9.5%+8.0%+115.1%
29927+23.9%+13.6%+7.7%+110.7%
29936+6.8%+9.5%+7.5%+105.6%
29907+5.7%+10.6%+7.2%+100.8%
29920-12.2%+10.6%+7.1%+98.2%
29909-2.4%+8.8%+6.7%+90.9%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC and South Carolina, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006113.8+13.8%107.6
2007118.2+3.8%112.4
2008113.9-3.7%113.1
2009107.1-6.0%110.4
201096.8-9.6%105.4
201190.1-6.9%101.1
201287.4-2.9%100.0
201385.8-1.8%100.4
201488.8+3.4%102.7
201594.5+6.5%107.9
201698.9+4.7%113.3
2017103.8+5.0%119.4
2018110.3+6.2%126.3
2019115.8+5.0%132.9
2020122.0+5.4%140.1
2021141.7+16.1%159.6
2022173.5+22.5%192.1
2023197.1+13.6%208.3
2024206.8+4.9%221.9
2025219.1+5.9%232.8

The 8 measured metros in South Carolina

Measured metros in South Carolina ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC+5.9%+12.4%+8.8%
2Charleston-North Charleston, SC+4.6%+11.6%+9.0%
3Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC+4.6%+10.9%+7.9%
4Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC+5.2%+10.8%+8.5%
5Spartanburg, SC+3.8%+10.7%+8.2%
6Columbia, SC+4.6%+10.1%+7.1%
7Sumter, SC+6.9%+8.9%+6.3%
8Florence, SC+6.5%+8.4%+5.5%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the South Carolina row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2