Bertie County is a low-price but incomplete-income case: Zillow's June 2026 median home value is $62,232, 0.50% below its prior-year observation, but published market rent is absent. Cash-flow investors should be cautious; investors able to collect lease, condition, and insurance evidence can investigate. Zillow is a county home-value observation, not a transaction-price trend. No FHFA repeat-transaction HPI reading is supplied to corroborate or challenge its direction.
Gross yield cannot be computed because measured market rent is not published. HUD's two-bedroom FMR of $1,044 per month is a payment standard, not an asking-rent estimate, and cannot be used for yield. The effective property-tax rate is 0.79%, with median annual tax of $778; neither establishes tax on a particular purchase. Modeled annual climate loss is 0.25% of building value, and hurricane is the dominant hazard. Expense and coverage verification is therefore required before a return conclusion.
County workplace evidence is constructive but narrow. In 2025 QCEW reported 5,288 annual-average covered jobs, up 2.20%, and an average covered-worker weekly wage of $897, up 4.06%. Education and health services, the largest disclosed private supersector, accounted for 16.32% of total private covered jobs. QCEW is neither resident employment nor unemployment. Tax-return migration showed 345 mover households in and 350 out, for net migration of -5; incoming movers' average income exceeded outgoing movers' by $478. Investor purchase mortgages were 2.41% of purchases, a small reported participation measure rather than a measure of all buyer demand.
No Realtor.com figures are published for median MLS listing price, active listings, days on market, or the price-reduced share, so visible supply, marketing time, and seller concessions cannot be assessed; these are listing-market measures, not closed sales. Missing market rent, vacancy, lease terms, operating costs, insurance quotes, property condition, and FHFA HPI prevent a stabilized income case, an independent repeat-sales trend check, and a property-specific risk assessment. Next checks are current comparable leases, subject-property taxes and assessments, hurricane insurance terms, inspection scope, and MLS inventory and pending detail.