High Country Realtors Post Best Sales Since 2008

• May 04th, 2012

• Author:

  Echota

First quarter real estate sales in the High Country were the highest since 2008, according to the High Country Association of Realtors, which represents 600 members in Avery, Ashe and Watauga counties.

For the months of January through March, 234 Realtor-assisted properties sold in Avery, Ashe and Watauga counties, the association announced April 20.

Total sales were $61.25 million, as recorded by the High Country Multiple Listing Service. The first quarter 2012 numbers are 27 percent higher than the same three months last year, and more than 60 percent higher than 2010, the association said. Click here to learn more.

Summer Events in the High Country

• July 02nd, 2010

• Author:

  leahgrove

With summer now officially underway, there will be plenty of activities to enjoy in the High Country these next few months. Here are some highlights for July: Click here to learn more.

Summer Birding in the Blue Ridge

• May 04th, 2010

• Author:

  leahgrove

With its temperate valleys, chilly mountain peaks, thick woodlands, open meadows, and grassy balds, the High Country is a birder’s paradise.

They come to us with names that sing across our tongues like the lovely colors of their wings – scarlet tanager, indigo bunting, belted kingfisher, cerulean warblers, and northern flicker. They are the birds of the North Carolina High Country – the year-round residents, the seasonal migrants, the sparsely spotted interlopers that have been driven here by odd weather and confusion. Click here to learn more.

What’s Blooming on the Parkway?

• April 14th, 2010

• Author:

  leahgrove

It’s that time of year again- time to take scenic drives along America’s favorite byway and enjoy the profusion of spring color!

Each year some 20 million visitors descend on the Blue Ridge Parkway, many of them coming to enjoy the array of wildflowers that line the road and trails from early spring through summer. It’s no wonder. Click here to learn more.

From Cradles to Caskets

• February 09th, 2010

• Author:

  leahgrove

The Mast General Store in Valle Crucis, North Carolina, was once the Wal-Mart of yesteryear. When it opened in the late 19^th century, then as the Taylor Store, it proclaimed to carry everything from cradles to caskets. And it did. Like all country stores, it offered farm equipment, clothes, dry goods, seed, food items – anything one could possibly want to get along in the mountains of western North Carolina at the turn of the century. Click here to learn more.