Kate Wheeler's (countryhomesnc) Blog

Have you received that email about the new 3.8% sales tax on real estate that's coming?  Here's a great post that gets down to the truth of the matter, written by Alan May, a broker from the Chicago area.  An agent in our office received this in her e-mail.  She asked her husband (the real estate...

                   Antique shop, mountain arts and crafts mall - maybe an upscale fly fishing shop? Great location with endless possibilites in this commercial building for sale at 16164 Hwy 64 West in the beautiful mountains of Murphy, North Carolina 28906.  With 2,700 sq. ft. on the main level ...

                      Looking for a home foreclosure for sale under $100,000 in the North Carolina mountains? Check out this newly listed 2 bedroom 2 bath ranch home with log siding at 459 Johnson Road in Murphy NC 28906.  There's a covered front porch overlooking the level front yard and beautif...

Ten years ago today, I became the mother of a little girl.  I felt a soul halfway around the world calling to me and my soul answered.  It took a year.  I filled out mountains of paperwork, put my family through criminal background checks and social services interviews.  I woke up at 3 AM night a...

        Is ANYTHING selling in Grand Vista Subdivision in Murphy, North Carolina? That's the number one question I get from anxious property owners who bought lots in Phase 1 of this upscale development in the mountains of Cherokee County several years ago.  Ever since the news came out that Gran...

     Murphy, North Carolina is one step closer to having a new Cherokee Indian casino in our mountains, bringing new jobs and tourist dollars to Cherokee County.  According to this week's Cherokee Scout, deed transfers were recorded on 6 parcels of land in May, totaling about 340 acres.  The prop...

   Nearly every day, I get emails from buyers looking for foreclosures here in the mountains of Murphy, North Carolina.  With all the national news stories about a huge volume of foreclosed homes for sale and a tsunami of bank-owned properties ready to flood the market, people expect to find doze...

Buyers continue to flock to the mountains of Murphy NC and Cherokee County this summer.  Home sales in July 2010 stayed on track for the year with 28 homes sold countywide and another 40 under contract. Inventory is still declining.  Last month, there were 835 homes for sale and this month there ...

               From the moment you walk up the flagstone steps of this 3 bedroom, 3 1/2 bath craftsman style home for sale at 171 Heritage Trail in Murphy, North Carolina, you'll see this custom built new home is something special.  Massive iron light fixtures flank the stone entry and you'll cat...

                   Don't bother calling me at the office on Tuesday before 9:30 or so.  I'm usually dashing up and down the aisles of my favorite local flea market, on a quest for the freshest produce, the perfect plant for that bare spot in the garden - or the ideal gift for my latest mountain h...