Unevenly. Five Cary communities carry a median lot of 0.10 acres or less and at least ten resale sales in the twelve months ending 12 September 2026. Three of them — Twin Lakes, Camden Townhomes at Cary Park, and Stonewater — are among the slowest-selling communities in Cary, at 46 to 75 days against a town resale median of 13. A fourth, Renaissance at Regency, sits on the same size lot and sells in 7 days. Lot size alone does not explain the gap.
Which Cary communities have a median lot of 0.10 acres or less?
Five qualify with ten or more resale sales in the twelve-month window: Twin Lakes, Camden Townhomes at Cary Park, Stonewater, Chesapeake Condos, and Renaissance at Regency. Between them they range from 0.00 acres — Chesapeake Condos, a condominium regime with no assigned lot — to 0.10 acres at Renaissance at Regency. Their resale prices run from $202,450 to $762,500, and their days on market from 7 to 75. That spread is the whole story of this page: small-lot housing in Cary is not one market, it is several.
| Community | Resale sales | Median lot size | Median days on market | Median sale price | Median price per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance at Regency | 16 | 0.10 ac | 7 | $762,500 | $269 |
| Chesapeake Condos | 10 | 0.00 ac | 22 | $202,450 | $227 |
| Stonewater | 14 | 0.09 ac | 46 | $457,500 | $232 |
| Camden Townhomes at Cary Park | 14 | 0.03 ac | 74 | $346,500 | $196 |
| Twin Lakes | 14 | 0.04 ac | 75 | $395,000 | $220 |
Based on information from the Doorify MLS, Inc. for the period 12 September 2025 through 12 September 2026.
Why do Twin Lakes, Camden Townhomes, and Stonewater sell so slowly?
The honest answer is that this table alone cannot fully explain it, but price point is the clearest common factor. All three sit below or near the lower-middle of Cary’s resale price range — $346,500 to $457,500 — well under the town resale median of $611,000. Buyers shopping in that band are choosing among a wider set of alternatives, including detached homes in other parts of Cary and resale stock in neighboring towns, and a townhome or small-lot property in that price range does not have the scarcity that would compress days on market.
It would be easy, and wrong, to stop there and conclude that townhomes and small lots are simply slow in Cary. Renaissance at Regency disproves that on its own.
Why does Renaissance at Regency sell in 7 days on the same size lot?
Because it competes in a different price tier. At a $762,500 median, Renaissance at Regency sits well above the town resale median of $611,000, closer to the price range where Cary’s fastest-selling detached neighborhoods also trade. Its 7-day median is faster than the town median of 13, and it did that on a 0.10-acre lot — the largest median lot of the five communities on this page. The lot size did not slow it down. The price point, and whatever buyer pool shops at that price point, moved it quickly.
Is lot size or price point the better explanation for days on market?
Price point, based on this data. The two slowest communities here, Camden Townhomes at Cary Park and Twin Lakes, have smaller lots than Renaissance at Regency — 0.03 and 0.04 acres against 0.10 — and sell far slower. If lot size were the primary driver, the smallest lots would sell fastest or slowest as a group, consistently. They do not. What separates 7 days from 75 is where a community sits in Cary’s price ladder and which buyers are actively shopping that ladder, not how much land comes with the home.
What does Camden Townhomes’ price per square foot show?
Camden Townhomes at Cary Park posted the lowest median price per square foot of any ranked Cary subdivision in this window, $196, against a town resale median of $276. That is a genuinely low figure for Cary, and it says something about where this community sits in the market: buyers there are paying for less finished space per dollar than almost anywhere else in town, which is consistent with an older or smaller-format housing stock competing on price rather than on speed of sale.
What should a townhome buyer in Cary understand about HOA structure?
Attached housing in Cary — townhomes, condominiums, and most small-lot detached product — is near-universally governed by a homeowners association or a condominium association that covers at least the building exterior, roof, and shared grounds, and in a condominium regime typically the structure itself. This dataset does not contain dues figures for any of these communities, and none are stated here. What a buyer can take from the sales data is narrower: HOA structure as a category does not by itself predict how fast a home resells. Chesapeake Condos, a condominium regime, sold in 22 days; Renaissance at Regency, also HOA-governed, sold in 7. Any buyer evaluating a specific HOA should request its governing documents, budget, and reserve study directly, and a real estate attorney can review those documents as part of closing.
What is the methodology behind this ranking, and does the July 2026 Doorify change affect it?
Communities are included if their median resale lot size is 0.10 acres or less and they recorded at least ten resale sales — sales of homes not built as new construction within the window — in the twelve months ending 12 September 2026. New construction is excluded because builder-direct closings are not competitively marketed sales and would distort any days-on-market figure. Ten sales is the minimum this site treats as producing a stable median.
Doorify MLS changed how days on market accrues in July 2026: time spent in Coming Soon status, up to 14 days, no longer counts toward the total. This twelve-month window runs from 12 September 2025 to 12 September 2026 and straddles that change — some of the sales behind these medians were measured under the old rule, some under the new one. The figures here are reported as recorded, not adjusted to smooth over the change, and that mixed measurement should be kept in mind when comparing any single community’s days-on-market figure to a period entirely before or after July 2026. Town-wide, Cary resale sales carried a median of 13 days, a median price of $611,000, and a median $276 per square foot over this same window.
Who does townhome and small-lot living in Cary suit, and who does it not suit?
It suits a buyer who wants reduced exterior maintenance and is comfortable operating within an association’s rules and shared decision-making, and who is shopping in a price range where inventory is genuinely scarce — Renaissance at Regency’s 7-day median shows what that looks like. It does not suit a buyer who wants full control over exterior changes and landscaping without approval, or a buyer assuming that any attached home will sell quickly on resale — Twin Lakes and Camden Townhomes at Cary Park show that assumption fails at the lower end of the price range. A buyer weighing a specific community should review its governing documents directly rather than infer HOA terms from a sales-speed statistic, and should talk to a lender about how attached-housing insurance and any association assessments factor into financing.
For the fastest and slowest resale neighborhoods across all of Cary, see the fastest-selling neighborhoods ranking. For how days on market varies by price tier town-wide, see days on market by price. For Cary’s broader neighborhood landscape, see the Cary overview and the Cary neighborhoods index. A seller considering a move out of a larger home and into attached housing should read downsizing in Cary. For more market data, see the market section.
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About the author
Cameron Smith writes Move Up NC’s real estate guidance for Cary, Morrisville and the North Carolina Triangle.
Editorial note: This article reports market data for a defined period and area. Figures describe closed sales in that window and are not a forecast or a valuation of any individual property.