Real Estate - Residential

Jul 9, 2025

Homes In Luxe Area Still In Demand

By Cece Nunn, posted Jul 9, 2025

Angela Johnson-Moore moved into her Mayfaire Townview condo in 2006 as she searched for a large property out in the country where she could build a horse farm. One of the first residents in the condominiums above the stores at Mayfaire Town Center, Johnson-Moore still owns her 1,150-square-foot, two-bedroom unit. “I rented it for 15 years, and I was fortunate t ...

Jul 8, 2025

In RentCafe’s Best Cities for Renters 2025 Report, Wilmington earned the No. 6 spot nationwide and the top spot across the state. The report from the apartment search company analyzed 20 metrics across 150 U.S. cities, including cost of living, average apartment size, average property ratings and renter income growth. RentCafe also grouped all of its metrics into ...

Jul 7, 2025

Buyers, Sellers In Tug-of-war As Both Sides Deal With Market Conditions

By Emma Dill and Cece Nunn, posted Jul 7, 2025

The housing market frenzy fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic continued to cool off this year. “The mania we saw from remote work, from significant relocations, has slowed down,” said Mouhcine Guettabi, a regional economist with the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Swain Center. “So we’re no longer seeing people waiving inspections; we ...

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Drawn by our beaches, charm, and quality of life, new residents are arriving here by the day—making the Cape Fear Region one of the fastest growing areas in the nation. But beneath this story of development and growth is an uncomfortable truth: the very people who keep our community running can no longer afford to live here. As home values climb and rents rise, teachers...read entire article
Jul 4, 2025

Homebuilders recently announced progress on two separate projects, one in downtown Wilmington and the other in the Brunswick County town of Shallotte. According to a recent news release, Robuck Homes will soon break ground on Downtown Wilmington Collective, a project set to include single-family homes and townhomes on McRae Street in Wilmington. The homes are expected t ...

Jun 27, 2025

Brunswick County’s residential real estate in May showed continued growth in new listings, a dip in homes sold and prices holding steady compared to last year, Realtors said this week. The total sales volume decreased slightly compared to May 2024, but "pending sales reached their highest level in nearly a year, an indicator of consistent demand," accord ...

Jun 20, 2025

Developers Hope To Replace Old Motel With Apartments

By Rickie Houston, posted Jun 20, 2025

More than 20 locals gathered Thursday evening at a community meeting to discuss a potential conditional rezoning for 2929 Market St., currently the location of the Azalea Inn & Suites. If developers succeed in getting a zoning that allows multifamily development, "affordable" apartments could replace the motel, which was built in 1963, according to tax rec ...

Jun 18, 2025

Brokers Mark Signs Of Housing Market Slowdown

By Emma Dill, posted Jun 18, 2025

Almost everything in the local residential real estate market is taking a little longer to sell these days, said Drew Pittman, a broker and Realtor with The Beatty Pittman Team at Intracoastal Realty. That’s likely a sign of a market in transition, Pittman said Wednesday during the Wilmington-Cape Fear Home Builders Association’s Broker Panel Breakfast. Curr ...

Jun 11, 2025

An island with a year-round population of roughly 300 residents that swells to thousands during the vacation season is planning its next chapter of growth through a commercial area master plan. Officials with Bald Head Island, an island reached by a roughly two-mile ferry ride across the Cape Fear River from Southport, began discussions with local planning consultants C ...

Jun 10, 2025

Realtors' Foundation Drops 'Realtors' From Its Name

By Cece Nunn, posted Jun 10, 2025

A foundation set up in 1988 to help Realtors in need has taken "Realtors" out of its name. The Wilmington Realtors Foundation is now called the Housing Foundation of Southeastern North Carolina, which remains a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. The organization continues to work on Pierson Pointe, a 48-townhome workforce housing project started by WRF, acco ...

May 30, 2025

In its latest report, the Brunswick County Association of Realtors (BCAR) reported that the county's residential real estate market saw increases in new listings and homes sold in April, while prices decreased. "The decrease in prices can be attributed to fewer luxury sales compared to April 2024," according to a news release issued Thursday. Brunswick ...

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