If you have visited the Outer Banks before and in particular Hatteras Island, you know first hand not only it’s absolute beauty, but it’s peace and tranquility. Just about everybody who crosses the Oregon Inlet Bridge (Herbert C. Bonner Bridge) heading south to Hatteras Island say that when they hit ‘our’ side on Highway 12, they’re in a different world…and indeed they are!

Hatteras Island is a skinny strip of land nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pamlico Sound. It’s comprised of three villages on the northern most end being Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo or better known as the ‘tri-village’.

Passing through these three connecting peaceful villages, the travel canvas is painted with old and new coastal homes. Some are smaller, worn and weathered where ‘down homer’ locals reside, many of whom have experienced the hardships of island living fishing and crabbing to put biscuits on the table. With a turn of the head, you can also gaze at the big fancy homes that offer every bell and whistle you could imagine...basically you see it all. It’s a quaint existence, comfortable to the spirit and the warmth to the heart mostly because of the people and general setting that envelope you. You realize that you have fallen in love all over again.

If you get up early in the morning, you are blinded by the bright sun shine casting it’s healing rays over you and in the evenings, you feel the warmth again touching your face softly and fondly as you watch the sun set over the sound bouncing gently as if a plastic ball on a slick, hard surface. Yep, with a turn of the head from right to left you can see as far as the ocean mist and the horizon to the west will let you. You know that the curtain will rise again tomorrow and you will marvel about how it all came to be…this wonderful world and this beautiful little island.

Traveling farther south about 15 miles outside of Salvo, you come to the village of Avon famous for its windsurfing Mecca, the Canadian Hole. About six miles south of there, you reach Buxton home of our famous Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, remember her move a few years ago? Frisco is the next connecting village and then another stretch before you reach the last village of Hatteras. This is the end of the road folks! It’s the last trek of payment before you board the ferry to Ocracoke. Now hasn’t this trip been fun?

Our island is special, unique and it will take your breath away. In fact, all of the Outer Banks has different characteristics that are just as endearing. We are so happy and blessed to live, work and raise our families as Outer Bankers!

With us being in the real estate business, you could ask us today, tomorrow and next year what we really think of real estate and the answer would be the same…buy it, buy it, and buy it…a second home, an investment, for your kids and your grandkids…just claim it as your own while the getting’ is good! Even and probably most especially in a slower market overall, you cannot lose by buying popular property at great prices and the only regret you might have is NOT buying at all.
Folks too many times have looked back later when prices skyrocket again and proclaim, “I wish I had”, “If I had only…”, “Why didn’t I do it when I had the chance?”

Honestly, the chance to buy very reasonable properties on the Outer Banks is NOW! Houses and lots are priced fairly and the selection is good, but everything is subject to change. Availability and optional choices will likely decrease and prices will rise again to the top just as we’ve seen before.

If buying here didn’t make sense, why would so many locals buy where they already live? Think about it.

Billy and I appreciate your visit to our site and we hope you come back often!