Property Scan for North Carolina real estate agents
Send any North Carolina address and get a CMA back in minutes, built from recorded sales, with every adjustment shown.
Where the sales come from in North Carolina
When a deed is recorded, the Register of Deeds collects the state excise tax ($1 per $500 of the price) and marks the deed with the amount paid. The price can be worked out from that stamp to within $500.
Excise tax on conveyances (deed stamps): "one dollar ($1.00) on each five hundred dollars ($500.00) or fractional part thereof of the consideration or value of the interest conveyed"
North Carolina has 100 counties. Property Scan covers any of them, pulled on demand.
Every comp in a Property Scan report is a closed sale with a recorded price, adjusted for market time with the FHFA House Price Index for North Carolina, which rose 0.4% in the four quarters to the second quarter of 2026 (how comps are chosen and adjusted).
Works alongside your MLS
Keep your MLS for everything else. MLSs that serve North Carolina include:
- Canopy MLSCharlotte region and western North Carolina (including Asheville and the Catawba Valley), plus some South Carolina counties
- Doorify MLS
- Triad MLS
Pricing opinions under North Carolina rules
North Carolina has a statute written for CMAs and BPOs. Any licensed broker except a provisional broker may prepare one for a fee if the license is active and the report has the required contents, including a disclaimer that it is not an appraisal. The fee rules do not apply to free CMAs. A CMA or BPO must never be called a valuation or appraisal.
“A person licensed under this Chapter, other than a provisional broker, may prepare a broker price opinion or comparative market analysis and charge and collect a fee for the opinion if: (1) The license of that licensee is active and in good standing; and (2) The broker price opinion or comparative market analysis meets the requirements of subsection (c) of this section. (3) The requirements of this Article shall not apply to any broker price opinion or comparative market analysis performed by a licensee for no fee or consideration. ... A broker price opinion or comparative market analysis shall not under any circumstances be referred to as a valuation or appraisal.”
A Property Scan report prints “Comparative market analysis. Not an appraisal.” It doesn't print the statement this North Carolina rule sets out, so where the rule applies, add that statement before you give the report to anyone. Not legal advice.
Sources
Facts checked October 30, 2026.
- G.S. 105-228.30 Imposition of excise taxncleg.gov
- G.S. 105-228.32 Instrument must be marked to reflect tax paidncleg.gov
- G.S. Chapter 93A Article 6: Broker Price Opinions and Comparative Market Analysesncleg.gov
- North Carolina Real Estate Commissionncrec.gov
- Canopy REALTOR Associationcanopyrealtors.com
- Canopy MLScanopymls.com
- Doorify MLSdoorifymls.com
- Triad MLStriadmls.com
- FHFA House Price Index (purchase-only, seasonally adjusted, by state)fhfa.gov
- U.S. Census Bureau, TIGERweb: Counties (January 1, 2026 vintage)tigerweb.geo.census.gov
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