Real Estate News
By Amy Hahn, Pine Knoll Shores Realty
First quarter Pine Knoll Shores Market Report
Statistics reported below are year-to-date for 2016 and as of the same date for 2015.
Residential
When comparing closed residential listings for Pine JCnoll Shores, first quarter 2015 (17
units) vs. first quarter 2016 (19 units), the number of sales is up. There were 57 new listings
added to the inventory in the first quarter of 2015, compared to 2016 with only 42 new
listings. The average days on the market has changed from 286 days in 2015 to only 109
days in 2016.
The median sales price in the first quarter of 2015 was $235,153, and has increased to
$327,000 (up 39.1%) in the first quarter of 2016.
There are currently 56 single family residential properties on the market, 47 condos and
1 townhouse. Eleven of those properties are currently under contract.
Land
When comparing closed land listings for Pine Knoll Shores, first quarter 2015 (3 units)
vs. first quarter 2016 (1 unit), number of sales is down. There were 21 new listings added to
the inventory for first quarter 2015, compared to first quarter 2016 with only 15 new listings
added.
The median sales price for lots in the first quarter of 2016 was $80,000 (down 15% from
$95,000 in 2015).
There are currently 32 lots available on the market in Pine Knoll Shores: 8 oceanfront, 4
ocean side second row, 1 sound front, 3 canal front and 16 interior lots. Five of those listings
are currently pending.
Source: Information was found on CCMLS on 4/14/2016
and is deemed to be reliable, but is not guaranteed.
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June 7 Primary: What We Know
By Phyllis Makuck
Voter Rights Coalition
of Carteret County
A NonPartisan Organization
Numerous court cases, some still pending, affect
North Carolina’s June 7 Congressional primary.
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North
Carolina, with offices in Greensboro, Durham and
Winston-Salem, has been hearing many of these cases.
Here is what we know at the time of this writing.
North Carolina’s General Assembly did pass a new
congressional redistricting map as required by court
order; but federal judges ruling on the case have yet to
approve that map and are considering new objections
to it. On the new map, Carteret County is in a
redrawn U.S. Congressional District 3.
Although the June 7 primary is a Congressional primary, voters will also be selecting
one North Carolina Supreme Court associate justice in a nonpartisan race, so all Carteret
County ballots have the same four candidates for this court position: Michael R. (Mike)
Morgan, Daniel Robertson, Robert H. (Bob) Edmunds and Sabra Jean Faires.
Carteret County will, however, have Republican, Democratic and Nonpartisan ballots.
Running for U.S. Congress on the Democratic ticket are David Allan Hurst and Ernest
T. Reeves. On the Republican ticket are Phil Law, Taylor Griffin and Walter B. Jones.
Unaffiliated voters may choose either one of these ballots or may choose a nonpartisan
ballot and vote only for a North Carolina Supreme Court associate justice.
Absentee voting, which requires voters to submit an official request form, started on
April 18 and ends at 5 p.m. on May 31. In Carteret County, early voting will be at the
Carteret County Board of Elections in Beaufort, 1702 Live Oak Street, Suite 200, from
May 26 to June 3, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturday, June 4, from 8 a.m.
to 1 p.m. There will be no early voting on Memorial Day, May 30.
The U.S. District Court in Winston-Salem should be ruling on several parts of
the 2013 North Carolina voting law; but if it does not, the same rules that applied to
the March primary will be in effect for the June 7 primary. For example, an officially
recognized photo ID will be required unless the voter claims a religious objection to
being photographed or another reasonable impediment to getting an acceptable photo
ID. Absentee ballots and curbside voting will not require a photo ID but will require a
document showing the voter’s name and residential address, such as a current utility bill,
bank statement, government check, paycheck or other government document. To request
an absentee ballot, voters may instead provide a North Carolina driver s license number,
another NC DMV-issued identification number or the last four digits of their social
security number. For more detailed information, go to voterid.nc.gov.
There are other 2013 voting laws not in effect unless the court rules otherwise. For
example, contrary to the 2013 law, during early voting, voters may register and vote
on the same day, and on June 7, voters may vote at any precinct in the county in which
they are registered and have their votes counted. If voting out of an assigned precinct,
voters muM cast a provisional ballot; but, as the law stands currently, these provisional
ballots will be counted. For more current detailed information, go to ncsbe.gov/ or to
carteretcountynr.gov/434/Board-of-Elections.