Willo Kelly, CEO of the Outer Banks Association of REALTORS® is being honored by the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) with the REALTOR® Association Certified Executive (RCE) designation, which recognizes exceptional efforts made by the REALTOR® association executives. Willo Kelly is one of only 525 REALTOR® association executives who have achieved this mark of excellence.  [...] Real Estate |  Full Article

The Outer Banks Association of REALTORS® is holding its annual REALTOR®Fest expo this Tuesday, November 9, 2021, from 9:00A-4:00P at the R/C Movie Theatre in Kill Devil Hills.  The event, which is open to the public, features almost 30 vendors, 13 presentations with 20 presenters that cover a wide variety of topics including Google tips [...] Real Estate |  Full Article

The Outer Banks Association of REALTORS® (OBAR) held its 24th Annual Charity Surf Fishing Tournament on October 15, 2021.  The charity event benefited the Association’s Disaster Relief and Scholarship funds held with the Outer Banks Community Foundation.  Seventeen teams cast their lines at the event and over $7,300 was raised. Surf Fishing Chair Aimee Pitts [...] Real Estate |  Full Article

The majority of reporting, both locally and nationally, has been focused on the performance of the residential sales market with only a few summary comments usually devoted to the market for undeveloped lots. To provide some perspective to the overall real estate market on Hatteras Island, I thought it might be helpful to focus this [...] Real Estate |  Full Article

The tourism dollars continue to flow into Dare County in record numbers in 2021. The July occupancy and meal revenue numbers represented “historic highs,” according to Lee Nettles, Executive Director of the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau, who recapped the Dare County Tourism Board’s September meeting. When it comes to occupancy collections, the July 2021 figure [...] Real Estate |  Full Article

One of the most frequent topics of conversation these days is the number of visitors that are on the island. Comments range from long lines at restaurants to difficulty getting onto Highway 12 from side streets to fully booked rental accommodations. Are these just anecdotal impressions or is there substantive data to back up our [...] Real Estate |  Full Article

The Outer Banks Association of REALTORS® (OBAR) is holding its annual expo on Tuesday, November 9, 2021.  The event is hosted at the R/C Movie Theatre and includes vendor tables, lunch, and multiple educational presentations held simultaneously in 3 different theatre rooms.  Says event Co-Chair Christi Bryant, “This is a great event that is open [...] Real Estate |  Full Article

Watching the real estate market on Hatteras Island is always a fascinating and challenging experience. Rarely do all of the statistics point in the same direction making definitive statements about where the market is at any point in time difficult. Some who track the market data over long periods of time have voiced the opinion [...] Real Estate |  Full Article