228 Bluewater Cove - Swansboro NC Colorful, jazzy and delicious describe this custom home in gated Bluewater Cove with community pool, pond, boat launch and green space. Three great out door porches, front covered, back deck with hot tub, and grilling deck right off the kitchen. Side yard is fenced for children and pets. Great location with community access to the White Oak River and 7 miles to the beach. Finished bonus room pre-wired for surround sound.   Kathryn Gorham / Watson-Matthews Real Estate / Emerald Isle, North Carolina www.HomesEmeraldIsle.com2010 President Women's Council of REALTORS® Crystal Coast Chapter 252.646.4656 cell · 252.354.2782 office Southern Outer Banks NC | Crystal Coast NC | Coastal Carolina  FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOKFREE alerts of HOT properties in Emerald Isle ... 05/19/2016

Just over three years ago, we concluded four years of searching and made an offer on a home in a small subdivision on the banks of the White Oak River in Western Carteret County near the beaches of Emerald Isle, NC. We had looked long and hard from Chincoteague to Oak Island.  There were a number of reasons that Carteret County met our needs, but the biggest was access to water. I worked in technology for 25 years and was looking for a change.  After having a very good experience buying our home, I decided to try a new career I have been thinking about for a couple of years.  I became a Realtor®.  Eventually I ended up working in the real estate division of the company who had built our home and actually developed our subdivision. It probably was not an accident.  I have always needed t... 07/21/2009

I have spent a lot of time in the last three months working with clients who are interested in having a place where they have access to the water.In our area of Carteret County that generally means finding a "water access" community.  Here on the Southern Outer Banks, that usually involves a place which has a boat ramp and access to navigable water.My wife and I have been boating down here on the coast for about a year.  We have had to figure out a lot of the boating information for ourselves so it is still fresh in our memories.That has turned out to a very helpful skill when it comes to dealing with water access communities.The fact that I have a 20 ft skiff on a lift behind my house has been very useful. We were very active boaters last year and made a number of trips including one d... 03/31/2008

The Labor Day weekend passed relatively quickly, and we got our next wave of tourists, the parents whose children are too young for school.This week has been a gorgeous week at the beach. It has almost been the icing on the cake of a very nice summer.  The weather, other than three weeks of low nineties and lots of humidity, has been nearly perfect. That appears like it is going to change.  Subtropical storm Gabrielle has been swirling around on our coast.I suspect it will cool off what is already a pretty cool real estate market.  Most buyers are still on the sidelines.  Many sellers are still hoping to get a high percentage of what properties went for just a year ago.  That doesn't making getting a meeting of the minds very easy.It is a challenging market and Gabrielle can either help... 09/08/2007

While our market on NC's Crystal Coast is probably different from many markets, we certainly have faced many of the same challenges as other markets this year.Still I think we are showing some signs of life which we need to aggressively protect and nurture. We have also seen some special issues such as being named the county that is the number one hurricane target in the US. Numbers are sometimes funny.  I looked at the same statistics and drew a totally different conclusion.My thought was not that Carteret County was due to be hit since it had been a long time since the last one, but that maybe the county was less likely to be hit based on current weather patterns.  Only time will tell who is right.Weather is just as hard to predict as the housing market, but recently in our area we ha... 08/01/2007

When I first looking for coastal property, I had a tremendous number of questions that I wanted answered before I moved to the coast.It took nearly three summers and multiple real estate agents before I got to the point of buying a property.Many of the questions I ended up answering myself or asking someone other than my real estate agent.Now that I am a real estate agent, I have made a tremendous effort at learning as much as I can about our area.Much of my knowledge I have put in five websites that I maintain, Southern Outer Banks, Coastal Paradise, Living on the Coast and Loving It, Accessible Trails and Coastal Carolina Restaurants.In addition to that I have taken up boating. Doing that was one of my goals when we moved to the Crystal Coast, but I also think that as I get experience... 07/09/2007

Both of our local papers, the Jacksonville Daily News, and the Carteret Times, had articles today about the holiday throngs being the best crowds in years.Yet when I worked the duty desk at the real estate office on July 3rd, there were no calls.New home starts continue to be weak.My guess is that this great holiday weekend is a beginning of a recovery for our area of Coastal North Carolina. Tourism is our lead generator.  I would guess that even in the days of the real estate bubble, there were few people who bought in the Southern Outer Banks without visiting first.Having great weather and plenty of people to enjoy it plants the seeds for people to consider a second home or perhaps to even consider our area for retirement.We have had just about everything going against us this year ex... 07/06/2007