Smithfield sits in Isle of Wight County, where the Pagan River bends past town and creeks cut into the land around it. What is actually for sale here is mostly houses, with a mix of ages and layouts behind that, and a share of the listings that are vacant land or a commercial building rather than a home. Most of the listed homes are houses, so your search will come down to size, age and where in the area a property sits. David Tortolini Realty Group works this market daily and knows how the listings here are put together, which matters more than it sounds like it should once you start comparing them.
Smithfield at a Glance
- County
- Isle of Wight County County
- ZIP codes in these listings
- 23430 · 23314 · 23487
- Typical asking price
- $529,900, middle half $407,500-$616,370 (median of 227 homes, excluding 59 land and other non-dwelling listings)
- Typical sold price
- $425,861, middle half $330,000-$525,000 (median of 672 home sales, excluding 33 land and other non-dwelling sales, past 12 months)
- Typical home
- 2,433 sq ft, middle half 1,840-3,006 (n=233) · 4 bed / 2.1 bath (medians, n=226 listed now)
- Months of supply
- 4.1 (leaning to sellers, homes only)
- Sold-to-list
- 100% of asking (median per home sale, n=672)
- Data current as of
- October 2026
How the Smithfield market is moving
Months of supply, which is standing inventory measured against how quickly homes have sold, currently leans toward sellers. On sales that have already closed, homes were going at or above their asking price. If you are shopping between $500,000 and $1 million, that band makes up a larger slice of what is listed than of what sells, which gives you more standing inventory to work through and room to compare properties side by side. One practical step before you judge your options: filter out land and commercial listings. About a fifth of what is listed here falls into those categories, and leaving them in will make the count of available homes look bigger than it is. Among closed sales, most went under contract within a month of listing while a small share sat more than six months, so the time on market varied widely.
What your money buys in Smithfield
The typical home here was built in 2008, with the middle of the range running from 1992 to 2025. That is the age where the first round of big-ticket replacements starts to come due, so ask the seller which of them are already behind the house: the roof, the furnace, the windows. Some will have been done, some will be waiting for you. Three bedrooms is the most common layout sold, at around $384,000, and more than half of closed sales landed between $250,000 and $500,000. For that money you are getting a house of real size and a yard that is yours to mow, plant or leave alone, with the ordinary upkeep of a home in that age range coming with it.
Styles and schools listed in Smithfield
Among listings that report a style, Traditional is roughly a third and Ranch about a quarter, and a home can be tagged with more than one, so those shares overlap. Neither style shows a measurable difference in price, so treat them as a way to narrow what you tour rather than a budget question. On schools, the listings themselves name Hardy Elementary on roughly a third of homes, Carrollton Elementary on about a quarter and Westside Elementary on roughly one in six. At the middle school level, most listings name Smithfield Middle, with Georgie D. Tyler Middle School on about a fifth and a small share listing another. High schools follow the same pattern: Smithfield on most, Windsor on about a fifth, a small share elsewhere. These fields are typed in by the listing agent, and boundaries and records both change, so confirm the current assignment for any specific address with the school district directly.
Named communities in Smithfield listings
Only some listings here name a community at all, a little under half of them. Within that group, Mallory Pointe accounts for about a quarter and Windsor Station roughly one in six, which puts the two together at roughly a third of the listings that carry a name. Beyond those two there are other community names in the data, each small enough that it would not tell you much on its own. Worth knowing when you search: a blank community field is simply missing information on that listing, so filtering by name alone will leave homes out of your results for no reason connected to the house itself.
What to verify before you commit
- Private well and septic system condition.
- Flood zone designation, elevation and tidal surge exposure near the Pagan and James Rivers and their creeks.
- Dock, bulkhead, or pier condition and permits, and navigable water depth at low tide, for waterfront lots.
Working with David Tortolini Realty Group
Two things on this page trip buyers up more than anything else: how close sales have been running to the asking price, and how much of what shows up in a Smithfield search is land or a commercial building rather than a home. David Tortolini Realty Group reads these listings every day and can sort the homes from everything else, line up what a property actually asked against what comparable ones closed at, and flag the waterfront questions worth raising early on a riverfront or creekside lot. Tell us the price range and the kind of house you are after, and we will set up alerts filtered to homes only.
