Homes Sold Recently Swansboro North Carolina This is a Real Estate Market Report for Cedar Point - Cape Carteret - Swansboro North Carolina for the month of September 2009.  The charts below will give the results of homes sold in Cedar Point - Cape Carteret - Swansboro, the low, high,  average List Prices and the low, high, average Sold  Prices. Next it shows the percentage (%) of Sale vs. List Price. In addition you will  find the approximate square footage as well as the List Price per Approximate  Square Footage and the Sold Price per Approximate Square Footage. Lastly there is information on the low, average and  high Days On  Market  (DOM) and Cummulative Days On Market (CDOM).   Next you will see the listings charts for the homes sold in Cedar Point - Cape Carteret - Swansboro No... 10/07/2009

Market Report and Statistics for Swansboro, Cape Carteret, Cedar Point NC 28594  for July 2009 Summary Market Report for Emerald Isle and Surrounding Areas for July 2009 The Swansboro, Cedar Point and Cape Carteret area had 12 sold properties in the following subdivisions: Quailwood Village, Coldwater Creek, Village at Magens Bay, Forest Brook, Swansboro Landing, the Villages at Swansboro, Halls Creek North, River Reach West, and 4 of the homes for sale closed in unincorporated areas. Cape Carteret had 4 of the closed properties,  7 for Swansboro, and 1 for Cedar Point. The average sales price for July in the area was $211,117, the low was $201,938 and the high was $310,000. In July 17 properties went into the pending sales status located as follows: 10 were in Swansboro, 1 were in Ced... 09/27/2009

Swansboro, Cedar Point & Cape Carteret - Market Statistics June 2009 Residential Pending Listings Residential Swanasboro, Cedar Point, Cape Carteret Photo List # Address Aprox. Htd SqFt +/- Total Bedrooms Total Bathrooms Year Built Primary Subdivision Sold Date Days On Market List Price Sold Price 09-2193 345 Bahia Ln Cape Carteret, NC 28584 2,190 4 2.50 2009  Star Hill North    50 269,900 0 08-2405 306 BONITA St Cape Carteret, NC 28584 1,232 3 2 2000  None    421 207,900 0 09-704 107 Lejeune Rd Cape Carteret, NC 28584 1,650 3 2 1998  Bayshore Park    137 199,000 0 09-1061 502 Park Ave Cape Carteret, NC 28584 1,495 3 2 1985  Hunting Bay    123 189,900 0 08-4522 450 WOODLAND Drive Cape Carteret, NC 28584 1,173 3 2 2008  Hadnot Creek    279 149,900 0 09-2313 1037 Cedar Point Blvd Cedar P... 07/08/2009

Monday night I got a call from someone whose area in South Dakota was in the midst of being whacked by a blizzard.  I guess it was the last straw for him.  He was ready to start investigating a move the Southern Outer Banks or SOBX as it is locally known.  Actually the blizzard was not the real reason for wanting to move, but I covered that in a post on the Crystal Coast Living blog. His call had come just hours after an email from a potential mountain dwelling client who is already scheduled to visit our area this summer.  The same blizzard had just dumped over two feet of snow on her Montana doorstep.  She was desperate for a picture of anything that was not white.  I sent her a link to some spring flower pictures that I took this weekend. While I know a few folks who love to be snowe... 03/31/2009

  As a facilitor for Leadership Carteret throught the Crystal Coast Chamber of Commerce, I had the pleasure of visiting one of the newest businesses to Carteret County yesterday.  Mac Daddy's, located at The Golfin' Dolphin in Cape carteret, offers fun for the whole family. When I stepped through the front door, I felt like a kid again.  The place is totally awesome.  They offer: 24 lanes of Bowling The Largest Arcade on the Crystal Coast Snack Bar Seating and Sports Bar and Grill with burgers, sandwiches, hot dogs, pizza and more. Conference Centers for Corporate Events Cosmic bowling Birthday parties and much more! If you are looking for a place to hold a private party, look no further.  At Mac Daddy's, they do all the work and you have all the fun.  They set up and clean up, so all y... 02/26/2009

I have spent a lot of time in the last three months working with clients who are interested in having a place where they have access to the water.In our area of Carteret County that generally means finding a "water access" community.  Here on the Southern Outer Banks, that usually involves a place which has a boat ramp and access to navigable water.My wife and I have been boating down here on the coast for about a year.  We have had to figure out a lot of the boating information for ourselves so it is still fresh in our memories.That has turned out to a very helpful skill when it comes to dealing with water access communities.The fact that I have a 20 ft skiff on a lift behind my house has been very useful. We were very active boaters last year and made a number of trips including one d... 03/31/2008

Sometimes work is just work.  There is no way around it. On a cold cloudy day in February, a commercial fishermen is out working in spite of  the elements.In a tough real estate market, it can feel like the clouds have settled in permanently.January and February of this year have been very challenging.  I am working with more clients than ever before, but they all seem to be waiting for magical signal before they actually buy something.As I see the tiny green sprigs of grass coming up, I know things will get better.  I recently had a client try hard to buy a property.  I am confident I will find him the right spot.I had more clients down last weekend.  Their search for the right spot is very close to being over.Another client is here in town this weekend driving by properties that I hav... 02/23/2008

I recently had the opportunity to meet with a couple that had found one of my websites not long ago.They had decided to visit our area, the Southern Outer Banks, and compare it to some other places before they picked a spot to retire close to their two kids, one of whom lives in Alexandria, VA and the other in Columbia, SC.The day before they met with met, they drove around a little on their own.  They mainly hit our main highway, Route 24 and idled down Front Street in nearby Swansboro.The route they took is pretty what most people from out of town do when looking at the area.  Sometimes after doing that, they ask, "Where do all the people live?"That's a question I will answer in a moment or two.My couple showed up for the meeting and said they didn't really want to waste much of my ti... 09/12/2007

The Labor Day weekend passed relatively quickly, and we got our next wave of tourists, the parents whose children are too young for school.This week has been a gorgeous week at the beach. It has almost been the icing on the cake of a very nice summer.  The weather, other than three weeks of low nineties and lots of humidity, has been nearly perfect. That appears like it is going to change.  Subtropical storm Gabrielle has been swirling around on our coast.I suspect it will cool off what is already a pretty cool real estate market.  Most buyers are still on the sidelines.  Many sellers are still hoping to get a high percentage of what properties went for just a year ago.  That doesn't making getting a meeting of the minds very easy.It is a challenging market and Gabrielle can either help... 09/08/2007

This summer on the Carolina coast, we have a good balance of sun and moisture.  Other places like Roanoke, Virginia where the picture to the right was taken have not been so fortunate.It is drier than we have ever seen it in our nineteen years in Roanoke.I have a feeling that the real estate market is in a similar dry spell.  We have had more showers than we had last spring, but we still have not seen that soaking rain of buyers that we need to keep the Realtors® in our area going.Yet I have a feeling that just as we are on the edge of the fall season which might bring some substantial rains to Roanoke, we are also close to a change in the real estate market.I have had more calls in the last two weeks than have come in since I started last winter.It is heartening to have some calls and ... 08/19/2007

While our market on NC's Crystal Coast is probably different from many markets, we certainly have faced many of the same challenges as other markets this year.Still I think we are showing some signs of life which we need to aggressively protect and nurture. We have also seen some special issues such as being named the county that is the number one hurricane target in the US. Numbers are sometimes funny.  I looked at the same statistics and drew a totally different conclusion.My thought was not that Carteret County was due to be hit since it had been a long time since the last one, but that maybe the county was less likely to be hit based on current weather patterns.  Only time will tell who is right.Weather is just as hard to predict as the housing market, but recently in our area we ha... 08/01/2007

When I first looking for coastal property, I had a tremendous number of questions that I wanted answered before I moved to the coast.It took nearly three summers and multiple real estate agents before I got to the point of buying a property.Many of the questions I ended up answering myself or asking someone other than my real estate agent.Now that I am a real estate agent, I have made a tremendous effort at learning as much as I can about our area.Much of my knowledge I have put in five websites that I maintain, Southern Outer Banks, Coastal Paradise, Living on the Coast and Loving It, Accessible Trails and Coastal Carolina Restaurants.In addition to that I have taken up boating. Doing that was one of my goals when we moved to the Crystal Coast, but I also think that as I get experience... 07/09/2007

Both of our local papers, the Jacksonville Daily News, and the Carteret Times, had articles today about the holiday throngs being the best crowds in years.Yet when I worked the duty desk at the real estate office on July 3rd, there were no calls.New home starts continue to be weak.My guess is that this great holiday weekend is a beginning of a recovery for our area of Coastal North Carolina. Tourism is our lead generator.  I would guess that even in the days of the real estate bubble, there were few people who bought in the Southern Outer Banks without visiting first.Having great weather and plenty of people to enjoy it plants the seeds for people to consider a second home or perhaps to even consider our area for retirement.We have had just about everything going against us this year ex... 07/06/2007

As people begin to depend more and more on the Internet to narrow down where they want to live and visit, pictures become more and more important.The Roanoke Times, the local paper of Roanoke,Virginia, has what they call a local Blog Roll of people who write about the area.  Their list of local Roanoke area bloggers is a good way to get a snap shot of the area.While there are bloggers that are focused on an issue or a particular aspect of modern life, there are people who blog about a particular area.Besides my View from the Mountain in the list of Roanoke bloggers, there is Fred First, who does Fragments from Floyd  and Doug Thompson's Blue Ridge Muse. Down on the North Carolina coast, I found Mary Warshaw's Beaufort Blog.In Northern Virginia, I found Reston Backfence, a community orie... 06/24/2007

For two nights this week I have helped another real estate agent sell a lot in our neighborhood.  Actually I wasn't on the job.The first night I was kayaking back in from the river just as she and her client walked around the boardwalk and looked out the gut.The next night I was just coming in from the river in our new boat.  I could have been a prop again this afternoon.After a morning of fishing on the river, I headed over to the clubhouse and had a swim in the pool.  I was the only one there.Actually I wasn't needed today since the clients made their decision last night as I was coming in with the boat.Kayaking, boating, and swimming are nice ways to sell property.  Perhaps I could get a job as a prop. It is hard to explain to anyone how nice it was out on the river this morning.  I ... 06/16/2007

Yesterday was the the hottest day of the year here on the Crystal Coast.  We had a booth at the Swansboro Arts Festival.  As hard and hot as it is sometimes, standing out and talking to the public is a good way to gauge what is on people's minds.That works if you can get them to stop and have a conversation. We were giving away sun screen, ink pins, postcards, and maps.If we had known the heat was coming, a tanker truck full of lemonade, some wading pools and a watering station for the dogs might have gotten more people to visit with us.If we could have figured how to blow some cooling mist on people without making the street wet, we might have gotten some customers for life.In the extreme heat with a lack of any breeze, it was pretty hard even giving away the free stuff.  I am not a sh... 06/10/2007

I recently had a really good experience with a client.  I put a lot of effort into my web presence and sometimes I wonder if I have the right balance, but a new client's recent comment seem to indicate that my web efforts are well worth it.In earlier posts, I had talked about the challenges of working with City-data.  I spent a few days and re-created my websites, Southern Outer Banks and Coastal Paradise, on my personal domain.  As you can see if you click on the links, I stripped out all advertising.  It was a lot of trouble.Yet by doing that and registering as a Realtor® with City-data and doing a business profile, I have been able to talk about some items that I believe are important to clients.Apparently my client was searching for information on flood zones and came up with a post... 06/07/2007

I tried to get over to the beach this morning to get some sunrise pictures.  Unfortunately when I got to one of the ocean access points, at 5:55 am, the gate was still locked.The Emerald Isle, NC police who are usually very prompt were running a little behind schedule since I waited until the 6 am opening time and then left.I managed to catch this sunrise over Bogue Sound as I was heading back to the mainland.  I posted a few more shots at my Picasa Web Albums site. It was a beautiful ride back to the house in the cool morning air which had only warmed to 57 dgrees Fahrenheit. On the way home, I swung in and bought a copy of the Raleigh News & Observer to catch up on my favorite comics.I wasn't surprise to see the article, Double Threat, which listed Carteret County, NC as the most like... 06/01/2007

I promised myself that I would not let my career as a Realtor® consume me as much as my life in high technology at Apple did.  There I was often away from home for days, and a workday could easily be sixteen hours since I was managing people on both coasts.Since finding buyers is so difficult these days even for established agents, I have been working really hard to get up and running.  Between the mailings, the online activities of maintaining my site and the thought that I might have to do some technology consulting again just to get through my first year as a Realtor®, I have been super busy.I have even been working with a client which has meant some late night research for them.  Yesterday I took the day off to work in our yard, and help some neighbors clean the pool furniture in ou... 05/24/2007

I talked to a buyer yesterday who is planning on coming down to the beach next weekend.  She was looking for property with a few acres where she could keep a horse and her dogs and still not spend a fortune.Fortunately we had something that might fit the bill. This buyer came to us from as a referral from another firm that the same franchise as ours.I am hoping as the beach season really opens up that we will see some additional buyer traffic.It is really hard to believe the difference in the real estate market here on the Carolina coast in just one short year.  A year ago we had been looking for three summers for a piece of property on water that we could afford.We had focused on Beaufort, NC because we liked the historic area. We were working with a two person team of Realtors®.  Most... 05/20/2007