NC Real Estate Tips - Highlands, North Carolina

Some tips for finding the best North Carolina Real Estate:
Before you travel, search the internet, look for design ideas on building your luxury mountain cabin or find the best luxury North Carolina mountain properties.

If you are looking for a pre-existing home, as you travel through the many mountain communities you’ll notice there may not be any for sale signs as they are not allowed in most developments. You’ll want to engage the services of a Buyer’s Agent Realtor who will have access to the local MLS home searches. You probably will want to contact a Realtor in advance, as October is one of the busiest times of the year. Let them know what you are looking for so they will have time to prepare a list especially for you and your particular criteria.

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We are focused on providing a full service experience for our clients before they get here, as well as when they arrive. From purchasing land to develop to finding a rental home, suggesting restaurants and things to do in the area, as many of the best places are off the beaten path.

Don’t forget to have a little fun along the way! There are many art festivals in the area, some of which feature the best blue grass music in Western North Carolina. If you are traveling to see the brilliant fall colors of the leaves changing don’t forget your camera.

Another big draw to the Cashiers, Highlands N.C. area and the many private and public golf courses.

For information about Highlands, Cashiers or Lake Glenville North Carolina area Real Estate, Market Trend, Events and Happenings in and around Highlands, please call Traci toll free at 1-888-277-2006 x 6 or send an mail to traci@carolinapg.com

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North Carolina Wins Site Selection Award for the best place to live and work

North Carolina Wins Site Selection Award - The place to work and live!

Based on corporated Real Estate Executives. North Carolina is the place to work and live. North Carolina's business climate was the best in the nation in 2006, according to the latest survey from Site Selection magazine.

The Tar Heel State earned top honors in the publication's 'Top Business Climate for 2006" survey, which is based in part on a survey of corporate real estate executives. This is the second consecutive year -- and the fifth time in six years -- that North Carolina has earned the distinction. Texas finished second, ahead of Ohio, Georgia and Tennessee, respectively.

Corporate executives included in the survey cited North Carolina's "ease of doing business, work force and higher education resources," according to Site Selection. The annual business climate rankings are determined by the state's performance in Conway Data Inc.'s New Plant Database, which tracks new and expanded business facility activity, and by a survey of corporate site seekers across the country.Site Selection is published by Conway Data Inc., an international publishing and association management company based in Atlanta.

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Golf Course Development Investment Property - North Carolina

Golf Course Development Investment Property

35+/- acres of gently rolling property fronting on the 14th fairway of a fabulous golf course located in the Cashiers/Sapphire area of North Carolina. With only a few restrictions on this property it can be developed into single-family cottages or multi-family golf units. This property offers big views looking up and down fairway with spectacular mountain views in the backdrop. This golf course community offers a variety of amenities such as golf, wonderful club house, tennis, swimming pools, hiking and walking trails, beautiful river for excellent fly-fishing. Paved access with water and power already to the property line. Great value at $60,000.00 per acre.

For additional information or survey please contact Traci Morreale Strub toll free at 1-888-277-2006 x 6

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Peace in the Mountains of Highlands, North Carolina

Head for the Hills

By Kathy Becker

A change in climate with a change of pace -- the same thing that draws many people to Southwest Florida -- is proving to be an irresistible lure for some working Neapolitans, who find themselves heading for the high hills of Georgia and North Carolina.

In the jargon of the development real estate business, they are called half-backs or boomerangs, because many of them originally came to Florida from the north. Now they are landing about halfway back to their birthplaces, seeking getaways well above sea level.

"We moved down here from the north and find ourselves halfway," says Michael Vranek, vice president of sales at Lely Resort for Stock Development, who has a getaway place he visits nearly every other weekend in Blairsville, Ga., just south of the North Carolina border. "There are four seasons up there, but none of them are so harsh. It's so delightful in the summer. The golf courses are open 12 months of the year. There is some snow or ice, but it's gone in a few hours or a day. And there's unbelievable, true beauty. My wife's family is in Baltimore and Cleveland, and everyone can meet there. We had 13 people for Thanksgiving there last year."

June Mueller, former president of the Naples Area Board of Realtors in 1999, is semi-retired and selling real estate to Neapolitans in Cashiers, N.C. "It's the same issue that drove the baby boomers to Florida looking for a simple, safe place," she says. "They like that kind of lifestyle. It's so similar to Naples. I could see it blossoming in the same way as Naples.

"Neapolitans are helping fuel North Carolina's boom. Mueller says about 25 percent of the members of the Country Club of Sapphire Valley near Cashiers are from Naples. "When I built my house three to five years ago, it was $140 a square foot to build," Mueller says. "Now it's between $200 and $450.

"This is an article that was published Nov 2006 in the Naples Ilustrated Magazine.

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Highlands, NC. Mountain Town - By CNN

N.C. mountain town blends rustic charm, rich history:
By Ben BrownSouthern Accents of CNN Travel

Since this North Carolina town arranges itself on a ridge 4,000 feet above sea level, the "high" in Highlands is entirely justified.

Yet it has taken more than altitude to uphold this town's reputation as a favorite summer refuge for more than a century. It's the related gift of remoteness that's key. Getting to Highlands requires intent. You don't pass through on the way to somewhere else.

On approach

You go slowly. You pay attention to the road as it narrows and winds upward. The air feels cooler. The light changes. And when prudence allows, you take in the views: the pastures, the pines and towering tulip poplars of the Nantahala National Forest, the dramatic drop-off into the Cullasaja River Gorge. Lake Sequoyah was created in 1927 by damming the Cullasaja, and its tree-lined shores and vintage cottages suggest the Adirondacks.

The history
Its remote location has protected Highlands since it was founded in 1875 by a couple of Kansas developers who "took a map in hand and drew a line from New York to New Orleans," writes local historian Ran Shaffner in "Heart of the Blue Ridge: Highlands, North Carolina."

"Then they passed another line between Chicago and Savannah. These lines, they predicted, would be the great trade routes of the future, and where they crossed would someday be a great population center."

The idea of hauling goods up and down the highest mountains in the eastern United States to get them from New York to New Orleans never took off. But a landscape that hindered ordinary commerce in the 19th century uniquely qualified Highlands for the business it's been in ever since. By 1931, according to Shaffner's research, Highlands' year-round population of 500 swelled to as many as 3,000 in the summer.

The historic Highlands Inn, where generations have rocked afternoons away on the Main Street porch, was built in 1880 and is one of several Highlands structures on the National Register of Historic Places. The 19th-century Episcopal Chapel nearby and the old cottage neighborhoods bear witness to the town's rich history.

Some locals and longtime seasonal visitors worry that Highlands' increasing popularity will threaten the character of a place with traditions tuned to the rhythms of summers in residence. However, the town's core attractions, walking on footpaths bordered by mountain laurel and lounging on a Main Street bench with an ice cream cone, are like the drive up the mountain. They are too connected to the place itself to be replaced by imported experiences.

To explore
Start off with the basics. At the Highland Hiker, a popular outdoor-gear shop, pick up a map or guide about local hiking trails and take to the woods. Almost half of Macon County, where Highlands is one of two incorporated mountain towns, is in the Nantahala National Forest.

Visit the Highlands Nature Center on Horse Cove Road, for a briefing on the plants and animals that make the plateau unique. Then make the pilgrimage to Sunset Rock, just outside of town, for a taste of the mountaintop perspective.

The people
Now you should sense the place's hold on return visitors -- on particular kinds of visitors, who constitute the second secret of the town's success over time. Since its beginnings, the people most attracted to the area and most likely to invest in summer homes and businesses have been the intellectually curious and committed types -- and, not incidentally, those with the means to retreat to the mountains for the season. They are customers interested in fine food and wine, art, antiques and books.

"It's the cosmopolitan nature of Highlands," says Shaffner. He bet on that sophistication when he founded an independent bookstore, Cyrano's Bookshop, 28 years ago, despite bankers warning him that only a bookstore selling vacation fiction and tourist guides could survive in such a small town.

Main Street
You can sense the diversity of visitors' origins and perspectives in casual conversations around town, from Buck's Coffee Cafe to the take-out counter at Mountain Fresh Fine Foods (where whole apple pies disappear almost instantly).

You can hear the surprise in the voices of first-timers when they recognize established international artists' work at Ann Jacob Gallery. And you may find yourself jumping into conversations at favorite restaurants such as On the Verandah or Wolfgang's Restaurant & Wine Bistro. This summer, to take advantage of the after-shopping crowd and the desire for relaxed gatherings with friends, Wolfgang's will open its Bistro at 3 p.m. to serve wine and a special menu ("from caviar to collard greens," says chef Wolfgang Green).

Many visitors are still brought to Highlands by friends with summer homes. But a feel for the classic mountain resort is available in town at such places as the Highlands Inn or just outside of town at the Inn at Half Mile Farm.

For most whose lives have grown hectic in the urban lowlands, a whole summer in the South's favorite mountain town may be out of the question. But a few days in Highlands can work wonders, from the moment you turn off the main highway and start gaining altitude.

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