Buying a home will probably be the single largest purchase you will ever make. Having a trusted Asheville real estate agent to negotiate on your behalf is important. The Asheville housing market is in high demand, and having someone on your side to get you from searching to offer to closing is to your [...]

Properly insulating and air-sealing your home can significantly reduce heating and cooling costs. It cuts off the drafts and makes your home warmer in winter and cooler in [...]

This artist rendering from the new Haywood Road zoning plan highlights the kind of pedestrian friendly dense growth it's supposed to encourage.

If all goes according to plan, a zoning change being considered by Asheville City Council Sept. 9 could eventually help lead to a more walkable and densely developed West Asheville -- all while maintaining its historical feel.

At least that's the goal of new rules called "form-based zoning" that have been in the works for more than a year. The plan regulates based on size, scale and design instead of use, making it more friendly to mixed-use development and, its advocates contend, a more adaptable way of setting predictable rules for an area. It's a very different approach from the city's previous development rules and, if city officials think it's a success, could provide a model for overhauling other neighborhoods as well... more

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http://mountainx.com/news/asheville-council-to-consider-new-west-asheville-zoning-plan/ Author:Jake Frankel

                                                                                                                                                                     Home sale prices climbed by 7.8 percent to an average of $267,169 in Asheville and Buncombe County compared to last year,according to national real estate data firm [...]

This month marks the fifth anniversary since the Great Recession supposedly ended.

It may or may not feel like a recovery, depending on whether you got laid off or saw any raise, found a new job or didn't, or if anything else happened to you or your loved ones in the tough labor market. The economist John Maynard Keynes said animal spirits, [...]

I have a problem with Beverly Hills... there are very rarely any homes for sale there!  I live in Beverly Hills myself and I sure am not giving up my corner cottage across from the Municipal Golf Course and other homeowners feel the same way. Termed the "nicest urban forest in Asheville" by one of the area's leading arborists, Beverly [...]

ASHEVILLE - After the Great Recession put the brakes on the drive toward high-end housing, an emerging green trend has put new life into Asheville's real estate market.

                                                   (Photo: Erin Brethauer, ebrethau@citizen-times.com )

Green building accounts for about half of the new home [...]

Attracted to the climate and culture of Asheville, N.C.? Be prepared to pay a premium for real estate. For houses priced above $500,000, 2013 was the strongest year since [...]

There were some contradicting indicators in the housing market in Buncombe County in the 1st quarter of 2014 while the City of Asheville's indicators all point upward. The number of homes sold in the 1st quarter in Asheville was up 8.2% compared to the 1st quarter of 2013, but for Buncombe County, the figure was an 11.8% [...]

reposted from Asheville Citizen Times

Duke Energy to donate property.

ASHEVILLE -- Duke Energy plans to donate 48 acres along the western banks of the French Broad River to the city for eventual use as a greenway. The steeply sloping property runs between Haywood Road and French Broad River Park off Amboy Road. A greenway path is still [...]