BY MILES LAYTON
Real estate that caught my eye – a great home on Blount Street is for sale in Edenton and the Silver Lake Inn in Ocracoke is ready for a new owner – make a bid.
I’ve toured that grand home – 117 Blount Street – nice waterfront view, well-kept home, great kitchen. Listed by Maryscott Haigler — Brokered by Perry & Co Sotheby’s International Realty.
“This much admired, impeccable Edenton Bay waterfront home offers the RARE combination of historic charm, bold waterfront, and the ability to walk downtown. Located on quiet, picturesque Blount Street in Edenton’s famed Historic District, it is the creme de la creme of Edenton real estate.” — from the real estate listing.
And then there’s this listing — Silver Lake Motel and Inn — auction with a minimum bid of $2.9 million. Rather than move to cold Vermont like Dick Newhart did to open an inn, how about Ocracoke instead!?
In days of yore, local newspapers published real estate sections with property listings – that was important news.
Why? Because it provided citizens with a snapshot of housing prices and visitors a place to dream. For housing professionals, these pages provided a platform to showcase properties and attract both new and existing clients.
Publishers blame the Internet as the reason to discontinue the real estate section of the newspaper. But like everything else, newspaper management was wrong.
Instead, because the Internet offered newspapers an audience reach like never before, these publications could’ve offered their advertisers and readers far more than print placement. But stuck in the past, maybe unable to sell water to a parched man on a sunny day, newspaper ad managers failed to see the potential, so real estate sites popped up to fill the void.
That said, imagine providing a local clearinghouse where people interested in buying or selling property could learn more about what’s available in their community – that’s what the Albemarle Observer seeks to do on many fronts so that we become not only the definitive news source for Northeastern NC, but the place to go for real estate, automobile sales, maybe even finding the best service professional so that you don’t waste your time with some “random” search engine pick.
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