Buncombe County property transfers show homes changing hands at varied prices

A Buncombe County property-transfers roundup for the week of March 12–18 recorded a wide range of sales, with 335 Red Fox Circle listed at $1,600,000, sellers Greg L. Denton and Carrie A. Denton and buyer Spencer F. Harris. That high-value closing sat alongside smaller transfers such as 0.29 acres on Haywood Road recorded at $121,500 from Jesse M. Dingle and Lynn K. Dingle to Rebecca W. Jackson, underscoring divergent demand across price tiers.

The public ledger that produced the weekly list originates at the Buncombe County Register of Deeds, which maintains land records dating back to the 1700s and accepts in-person searches at 205 College Street in Asheville. Recorded documents come into the register as deeds and related filings; recording dates reflect when papers are filed with the office and may not match a transaction’s actual closing date, a distinction homeowners should keep in mind when using recorded prices as comparables.

Other transactions in the March 12–18 batch illustrate the market mix: 182 Porter Road transferred for $355,000 from 2020 Builders LLC to Cloreitha B. Palmer; 15 Myrtle Lee Cove moved for $575,000 from KGJ Home Builders LLC to Marcus Guarnieri; and 12 Escondido Drive sold for $415,000 from Hi-Alta Investments, LLC to Dendy Diane Lofton. Several entries involved transfers to or from LLCs and trusts, signaling continued investor activity and estate-planning transfers within Buncombe County.

These recorded sales take on added significance this year because new assessed values from the countywide reappraisal are effective January 1, 2026. Buncombe County’s MyValueBC materials note that owners who disagree with their mailed property-value notice have 30 days to file an appeal, and that the county follows a four-year reappraisal schedule. The reappraisal originally scheduled for January 1, 2025 was delayed to January 1, 2026 after the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners voted 7-0 on October 15, 2024 to push the deadline, citing Tropical Storm Helene’s damage and uncertainty about market impacts.

Market context from a Mosaic Community Lifestyle Realty year-end 2025 analysis places Buncombe County’s median sale price at $477,000 for both 2024 and 2025, with a fourth-quarter 2025 median of $473,750, while Asheville’s median rose from $488,000 in 2024 to roughly $500,000 in 2025. Mosaic also reports that inventory in the $1.5 million-and-up segment was higher late in 2025, a dynamic that helps explain how a $1.6 million recorded sale can coexist with softer turnover in the luxury tier.

Homeowners and agents can use weekly transfer lists as a source of comparable sales when preparing appeals or pricing homes, and the Register of Deeds offers a free Property Check notification service for owners who want alerts when records in their name are recorded. For parcel-level assessment details, Buncombe County’s online Assessment Property Record Search and the Register of Deeds’ Record Lookup interface provide the next step for anyone seeking deed pages, buyer and seller names, or parcel history. Patterns across multiple weeks of recorded transfers will be the clearest signal of where Buncombe’s market is headed amid post-Helene adjustments and the new 2026 assessed values.