Gabe Swinney -Asheville New Urbanism and Traditional Neighborhood Developments

       Well, Halloween this year was one for the record books.  First time I ever dressed at the command of a three-year-old, (Ruby insisted I be a pirate) the most trick-or-treaters I have ever had, (we turned out the light after handing out over one thousand pieces of candy!) and it was the sce...

        Asheville Eco Community Hickory Nut Forest has been getting people together for various events over the past several months. This November the sustainable community is hosting the inaugural trek along the new Hickory Nut Gorge Trail.  Many people from the Asheville area are expected to at...

Hey there this is my spooktacular second installment of a short series focusing on what to do around Asheville, NC this Halloween season.  In the last blog we looked at two of the best trick or treat haunts and talked briefly about events.  This time I want to talk more specifically about events....

It is that time again in Asheville, North Carolina.  The leaves are changing, the shadows are growing a little longer, and the nights have taken on a certain surreal enchanting indicative of those last few weeks before Halloween.  Asheville Halloween is a wonderful and exciting holiday, the only ...

 Asheville traditional neighborhood developments are a growing force in the Asheville real estate market.  No surprise there, with so many people moving to the mountains of North Carolina from out of state, developers are taking advantage of every opportunity to receive them.  A substantially lar...

  Asheville vacation rentals are now a powerful and growing force in the Asheville, NC real estate market.  Why is this?  The answer seems fairly simple and yet is made up of a few different factors.For one thing the tourism and vacation industry has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last...

     Asheville New Urbanism New Urbanism is a powerful growing force in the Asheville green real estate market.  In many ways the traditional neighborhood design is a knight in shining armor for the Asheville area during this time of rapid growth.  one of the reasons for this praise is that New U...

  Over the years I have been privileged to have lived in and visited many wonderful places.  Asheville, North Carolina is one of the places that I am most proud of having in my life.  Seeing this fair city develop and gain the fame and respect she deserves could be likened to dating a girl in hig...

 Asheville Waterfall Properties   As a green real estate agent I have many workplaces.  Sometimes my office is my car sometimes its the local coffee shop. I could just as easily find myself on a ridge top as the actual office itself.  That being said, some of my favorite places of work are the As...

   Asheville Conservation Land Broker Lately I have been thinking quite a bit about what an adventure working on land deals around Asheville, North Carolina is.  The familiarity with the land that is demanded by this work makes me reminiscent of my time working in the Alaskan Wilderness.  These d...