Does a home seller have to disclose the property’s condition in North Carolina?

In North Carolina, the owner selling a home of one to four dwelling units must give the purchaser the Real Estate Commission’s residential property disclosure statement, an owners’ association and mandatory covenants disclosure statement and a mineral and oil and gas rights disclosure no later than when the purchaser makes an offer, and if they are not delivered by then the purchaser may cancel the contract by written notice with a full refund of any deposit, until the end of the third calendar day after receiving the statement or after the contract was made, or settlement or occupancy, whichever comes first. On the residential property disclosure statement the owner may either disclose the listed conditions the owner actually knows of or state that the owner makes no representations about them. The first sale of a never-inhabited dwelling and a sale where both parties agree not to complete the residential and owners’ association statements are exempt from those two statements but still require the mineral and oil and gas rights disclosure. Transfers under a court order or foreclosure and transfers between co-owners or to a spouse or lineal relative are exempt from the chapter. Federal law separately requires a lead-based paint disclosure when selling most homes built before 1978. This is N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 47E-1, 47E-2, 47E-4, 47E-4.1, 47E-5.

WhatNorth Carolina
Seller disclosureRequired by the offer; buyer may cancel within 3 days
Kind of ruleA written property condition statement is required

What the statute says

“The owner of real property subject to this Chapter shall deliver to the purchaser the disclosure statements required by this Chapter no later than the time the purchaser makes an offer to purchase, exchange, or option the property …”

Quoted word for word from the section’s text.

Source

N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 47E-1, 47E-2, 47E-4, 47E-4.1, 47E-5

Read the statute in the North Carolina General Statutes (North Carolina General Assembly): ncleg.gov.

Checked against the statute on November 15, 2026.

This is a summary of a published statute, not legal advice. Rules change, local ordinances can add to them, and the terms of a specific lease may differ. Check the citation and speak to a lawyer before acting.

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This page states the state’s rule so the costs and paperwork of a sale can be checked against it before a contract is signed. An owner on Seayora keeps each property’s owners of record and its documents in one place.

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