Neighborhood guide

Hope Valley

Durham, North Carolina · Durham County

Hope Valley is an established southwest Durham area whose original development dates to the late 1920s, with curving streets and residential sections arranged around the historic golf-course landscape.

City
Durham
Housing types
Single-family · Townhome
Pedestrian context
Mostly car-oriented
Construction
Mostly established housing
Neighborhood reference
$575,000
What defines this area

Hope Valley

Hope Valley is an established southwest Durham area whose original development dates to the late 1920s, with curving streets and residential sections arranged around the historic golf-course landscape.

Housing profile

Housing types and pattern

Detached homes dominate the original Hope Valley sections, with varied lot sizes, architectural periods and later residential communities in the surrounding Hope Valley area.

Access and connections

Regional connections

Hope Valley Road, University Drive and nearby NC-751 provide connections toward central Durham, Duke-area destinations, Southpoint and Chapel Hill routes.

Urban form and local mobility

Moving around the area

The original suburban street pattern is lower-density and primarily vehicle-oriented, with local walking concentrated on neighborhood streets and nearby commercial pockets.

Historic contextEstablished housingGolf-course context
Market Intelligence

Durham market snapshot

These figures are city-level data from the Market Intelligence Center and should not be read as neighborhood-specific statistics.

May 2026 · Updated September 3, 2026

Median sale price
$430,000
Median days on market
29
Inventory
1,068
Months of supply
2.9
Durham market
Neighborhood market reference
$575,000
Median listing · June 2026
Realtor.com Economic Research

How to interpret it

This reference depends on the external source's geography, metric, sample and period. It is not an appraisal or a prediction of a specific property's value.

For a specific property, compare truly comparable recent sales, condition, size, lot, HOA, improvements and micro-location.

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