Is Now a Good Time to Time the Market?
At first blush, August real estate sales in the Wilmington, NC, area, seem like an anomaly, but the numbers imply this may be a good time to buy a home inside or outside a golf community in the...
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“Nice Place to Live”: Compass Pointe Direction Set for Success
To build a golf course and surrounding community anytime after the 2008 recession, a developer either had to be dumb or very organized. Put Compass Pointe developer Bobby Harrleson in the...
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Smooth Landing: Marketing Drives Sales Successes at Cypress Landing
Roughly half of those who live inside the gates of golf communities rarely or never play golf. They buy a home in a golf community because of the generally more evolved landscaping associated...
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#2 is #1: Pinehurst Area Courses Dominate North Carolina Rankings
They may be separated by a three-hour car drive, but golf courses on the ocean and in the Sandhills region (Pinehurst) are closer than you think. That’s because 20 million years ago, during the...
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Golf Home near Outer Banks Could Provide Inner Peace
I spent a very pleasant five days at a friend’s huge rented home on the beach at Kill Devil Hills, NC, on the Outer Banks, known locally to all as the OBX. (All residents’ license plates appear...
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Developer website calls attention to lawsuit(s)
Mark Saunders, head of Coastal Communities in North Carolina, has managed to make headlines about golf communities he has built between Myrtle Beach and Wilmington, including Rivers Edge and...
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The Smell of Pork Benefits NC Golf Community
Irony is not something typically associated with golf communities, but River Landing in Wallace, NC, may take the title. A community conceived and developed by one of the largest hog farming...
View ArticleWhere North Carolinians come from
When we think of the typical migrant to the Southeast states, especially the Carolinas, the tendency is to envision a shivering Yankee fed up with New England winters and eager for essentially...
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Happy Husband, Happy Wife, Happy Life: A Couple’s Successful Journey to Find...
Bill and Karen Reutemann’s search for their post-retirement home in a high-quality golf community started in a suburb of Los Angeles, where they had lived for almost 20 years, and ended up in...
View ArticleUnhappily, North Carolina goes with the Flo
Hurricanes that begin with the letter 'F' – indeed that begin with the letters F-L-O -- have a thing for North Carolina. The strongest storms of the last two decades have been Floyd and...
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