Making a Splash
By Catherine Kozak Every summer, vehicles by the thousands drive south from Virginia to the Outer Banks, passing a few strip malls, stores and eateries and miles of empty fields. Sometimes they’ll stop at...
Category: Real Estate
Brindley Beach Buys Wright Property Management
By Kip Tabb – With the acquisition of Wright Property Management in Kitty Hawk by Brindley Beach Vacations, the recent trend of larger Outer Banks property management firms purchasing smaller companies continues. First opening...
Cottage Courts—Still a Part of the Outer Banks
By Kip Tabb – Not quite a motel and certainly, a little smaller than a cottage, the cottage courts were the introduction to an Outer Banks vacation for thousands of families from the 1940s...
Hammertime – Outdoor living on the OBX
By Jeffrey Ballard, GC – Are you making the most of the outdoor living opportunities at your Outer Banks home? From outdoor kitchens to gazebos, patios to pergolas, we can enjoy outdoor living...
Outer Banks Real Estate… Where are We Now?
By Jeff Scott – If you are an owner of Outer Banks real estate, it is likely the new tax assessment value has either been delivered to your mailbox or you will be receiving...
The Man Upstairs
By Kip Tabb – I was the man upstairs. When I first came to the Outer Banks I lived above Glenn Eure’s Ghost Fleet Gallery in Nags Head. A one bedroom, two story apartment,...
Southern Shores Flat Tops, A Rare Outer Banks Gem
By Jeff Scott – Photos by Lori Douglas Photography There is a growing interest in the old style flat top beach cottages on the Outer Banks. Just walking into one of these homes and...
20th Annual Outer Banks Parade of Homes
By Kip Tabb – The 20th Annual Outer Banks Parade of Homes is underway, and although I didn’t get a chance to our all 20 of them, I did get to see most of...
Here Comes the Sun…
By Jeffrey Ballard, GC – Today’s vision of going green with our homes can seem all or nothing, although in reality there is a happy medium within most consumer’s reach. We can save thousands...
New Life in New Home Construction in Corolla – Corolla Construction Paces Outer Banks Building Resurgence
By Kip Tabb New houses are not going to start popping up like mushrooms in a cow pasture on the Outer Banks—at least not any time soon. But there is life in the housing...
