28 Sep 2009 06:46 am

Lot #17 - Driveway and house site cleared. Open to offers. A unique, large acreage waterfront lot near a great full service town.

The Malone Bay community features 18 lots at W. Kerr Scott Dam & Reservoir. Fourteen (14) are Lakefront and meet private dock requirements. All lots have access to public water, saving owners from $5,000 to $10,000 on drilling a well. These lots have public water and will save you the cost of drilling a well. The entire development also features underground utilities.

This is a gated community with lots ranging from 2.3+- acres to 6.8+- acres on the Hwy 421 side of the lake just off South Minton Road, Wilkesboro, NC 28697

W. Kerr Scott Lake is 1500 acres with 50 miles of shoreline and is controlled by the US Army Corps of Engineers. It is clean water with good fishing and is excellent for boating, kayaking, skiing, and swimming. The property is surrounded by National Parks. Wilkesboro is a beautiful community and town with friendly people. It is located just 40 miles east of Boone and Blowing Rock, NC and one and a half hours northwest of Charlotte.

Main Channel Views.
Private dock.

3.87 acres.

MLS Number: 52139
List Price: $242,500
Lot Size: 3.87 ac.
Apx Acreage: 3.87
Type: Waterfront
Area: Area 2
Suitable Use: Residential

Topography: Rolling
Utilities: Underground Utilities
Road Frontage: Private Road
Restrictions: yes
Water/Sewer: Public Water
Location: Malone Way

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25 Sep 2009 06:21 am

According to National Association of Realtors research economist George Ratiu, while almost every type of commercial or income property has had a rough going in the past two years, “the (rental) apartment sector continues to maintain a stronger performance compared with other sectors.” Those include office buildings, which have seen widespread property value declines — and retail real estate, which has been particularly hard hit as consumers penny-pinched during the recession and stayed away in droves.

Multifamily, on the other hand, has done better holding value, keeping units filled and rent rolls stable or growing. During the second and third quarters of this year, demand for rental apartments as measured by net absorption, increased by more than 89,000 units nationwide. Rental building owners have done particularly well in keeping vacancies low, with rates in some major metropolitan markets in the five percent range. (more…)

21 Sep 2009 06:48 am

High in the lush Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina at 3600 foot elevation on 40 acres of rolling hills sits this expansive, bucolic family complex with 360 degrees of spectacular panoramic views.

This estate includes a luxurious 5,200 square foot family mansion with every amenity and five (5) individual 1400 square foot, two bedroom, two bath extended family cottages.

Unique to this property is a four acre barnyard complex with a 950 square foot barn equipped with electricity and running water, tack room, loft, baby animal paddock, and three fenced and gated pastures. You will also find a 40,000 gallon koi pond fed by an onsite spring and stocked with 200 koi fish. For the young folks, there is a children’s playground, complete with climbing wall, swings, slides, a basketball court, and a 25 foot play fort.

Valle Crucis is in Watauga County, west of Boone and only a few hours from the jamming traffic of bigger cities. Day and weekend getaways are possible, but most eventually return for a much longer stay.

At over 3,000 feet elevation, Valle Crucis is famous for it’s abundance of North Carolina Christmas Tree farms. Valle Crucis is a vacation and retirement paradise with hiking, canoeing, fishing, swimming, mountain biking, horseback riding, skiing, golf and much more.

With both the Blue Ridge Parkway and numerous ski slopes nearby, visitors to Valle Crucis come to experience cool summer breezes, spectacular mountain scenery and outdoor recreation.

Contact Elizabeth Carter, 336.973.5594 or Greg Stikeleather, Broker, 704.880.5247 or email eacarter@charter.net

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18 Sep 2009 01:11 pm

A year ago at this time, David Barlow was on “a walk of a lifetime,” as he calls it — and that’s saying a lot.

A Landis firefighter and retired teacher, Barlow has hiked in Alaska, Yosemite and the Tetons, to name a few places. He has climbed almost half way up Mount Ranier and has hiked “rim to river and back” in the Grand Canyon in one day on nine different occasions, once in a blinding snowstorm in March.

But his 42-day trek down the original Blue Ridge Parkway last September and October — raising awareness about Operation Christmas Child — surpasses all other trips for Barlow.

He was about a quarter of the way through his journey at this time last year. “I can smell it in the air,” Barlow says. “I wish I could go back out there. … I would drop everything and go right now.” (more…)

14 Sep 2009 07:44 am

Lot #17 - Driveway and house site cleared. Open to offers. A unique, large acreage waterfront lot near a great full service town.

The Malone Bay community features 18 lots at W. Kerr Scott Dam & Reservoir. Fourteen (14) are Lakefront and meet private dock requirements. All lots have access to public water, saving owners from $5,000 to $10,000 on drilling a well. These lots have public water and will save you the cost of drilling a well. The entire development also features underground utilities.

This is a gated community with lots ranging from 2.3+- acres to 6.8+- acres on the Hwy 421 side of the lake just off South Minton Road, Wilkesboro, NC 28697

W. Kerr Scott Lake is 1500 acres with 50 miles of shoreline and is controlled by the US Army Corps of Engineers. It is clean water with good fishing and is excellent for boating, kayaking, skiing, and swimming. The property is surrounded by National Parks. Wilkesboro is a beautiful community and town with friendly people. It is located just 40 miles east of Boone and Blowing Rock, NC and one and a half hours northwest of Charlotte.

Main Channel Views.
Private dock.

3.87 acres.

MLS Number: 52139
List Price: $242,500
Lot Size: 3.87 ac.
Apx Acreage: 3.87
Type: Waterfront
Area: Area 2
Suitable Use: Residential

Topography: Rolling
Utilities: Underground Utilities
Road Frontage: Private Road
Restrictions: yes
Water/Sewer: Public Water
Location: Malone Way

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11 Sep 2009 07:18 am

From Moses Cone, “The Denim King” from Greensboro, the National Park Service inherited Flat Top Manor and the surrounding 3,500 acres off the Blue Ridge Parkway near mile marker 294.

For end-to-end parkway drivers, Moses Cone Memorial Park is one of those must-stop places that can break up miles of twists and curves. For the rest of us, the park is a worthwhile day trip that can be tagged onto a visit to Blowing Rock or Boone, or be coupled with a jaunt over to Julian Price Park — named after another rich guy who left us a beautiful piece of property — for more leisurely hiking.

Moses Cone Park’s most obvious feature is the white house perched atop a mountain that overlooks ripples of mountain ridges and Bass Lake, which is every bit as peaceful as the house is grand. (more…)

07 Sep 2009 09:44 am

Lot #17 - Driveway and house site cleared. Open to offers. A unique, large acreage waterfront lot near a great full service town.

The Malone Bay community features 18 lots at W. Kerr Scott Dam & Reservoir. Fourteen (14) are Lakefront and meet private dock requirements. All lots have access to public water, saving owners from $5,000 to $10,000 on drilling a well. These lots have public water and will save you the cost of drilling a well. The entire development also features underground utilities.

This is a gated community with lots ranging from 2.3+- acres to 6.8+- acres on the Hwy 421 side of the lake just off South Minton Road, Wilkesboro, NC 28697

W. Kerr Scott Lake is 1500 acres with 50 miles of shoreline and is controlled by the US Army Corps of Engineers. It is clean water with good fishing and is excellent for boating, kayaking, skiing, and swimming. The property is surrounded by National Parks. Wilkesboro is a beautiful community and town with friendly people. It is located just 40 miles east of Boone and Blowing Rock, NC and one and a half hours northwest of Charlotte.

Main Channel Views.
Private dock.

3.87 acres.

MLS Number: 52139
List Price: $242,500
Lot Size: 3.87 ac.
Apx Acreage: 3.87
Type: Waterfront
Area: Area 2
Suitable Use: Residential

Topography: Rolling
Utilities: Underground Utilities
Road Frontage: Private Road
Restrictions: yes
Water/Sewer: Public Water
Location: Malone Way

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04 Sep 2009 06:58 am

When the federal government announced half a billion dollars in grants last week to help develop wind-energy projects, more than a few land investors and farm owners around the country probably picked up the sweet scent of cash. That’s because wind farming is the hot new sideline source of income shaping up for potentially thousands of landowners whose acreage happens to be in the right place. Wind projects are high on the Obama administration’s list of renewable energy to encourage — even subsidize — in the coming two decades.

Wind energy generation companies are on the prowl for acreage where they can install turbines, ideally in locations that have average year-round wind speeds of eleven to thirteen miles per hour. If the acreage also happens to be in the general vicinity of existing high-power electrical transmission lines, and not too remote from population centers, that’s all the better. (more…)