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Horizon Realty Group · North Carolina

One team.
Eighteen honest briefs.

This is not a portal. Every county in this network gets its own long-form, fact-checked buyer's brief, written for that county's actual towns, prices, and flood maps, not a template with the name swapped in. Find yours on the map, take the quiz, or pick from the index.

Find your county: 6 questionsAbout Travis Old
Alamance CountyAlexander CountyAlleghany CountyAnson CountyAshe CountyAvery CountyBeaufort CountyBertie County Buyer’s Brief, Bertie CountyBladen CountyBrunswick CountyBuncombe CountyBurke CountyCabarrus CountyCaldwell CountyCamden County Buyer’s Brief, Camden CountyCarteret CountyCaswell CountyCatawba CountyChatham CountyCherokee CountyEdenton Buyer’s Brief, Chowan CountyClay CountyCleveland CountyColumbus CountyCraven CountyCumberland CountyCurrituck County Buyer’s Brief, Currituck CountyDare CountyDavidson CountyDavie CountyDuplin CountyDurham CountyEdgecombe County Buyer’s Brief, Edgecombe CountyForsyth CountyFranklin CountyGaston CountyGates County Buyer’s Brief, Gates CountyGraham CountyGranville CountyGreene CountyGuilford CountyHalifax County Buyer’s Brief, Halifax CountyHarnett CountyHaywood CountyHenderson CountyHertford County Buyer’s Brief, Hertford CountyHoke CountyHyde County Buyer’s Brief, Hyde CountyHyde County (Ocracoke)Iredell CountyJackson CountyJohnston CountyJones CountyLee CountyLenoir CountyLincoln CountyMcDowell CountyMacon CountyMadison CountyMartin County Buyer’s Brief, Martin CountyMecklenburg CountyMitchell CountyMontgomery CountyMoore CountyNash County Buyer’s Brief, Nash CountyNew Hanover CountyNorthampton County Buyer’s Brief, Northampton CountyOnslow CountyOrange CountyPamlico CountyElizabeth City Buyer’s Brief, Pasquotank CountyPender CountyPerquimans County Buyer’s Brief, Perquimans CountyPerson CountyPitt County Buyer’s Brief, Pitt CountyPolk CountyRandolph CountyRichmond CountyRobeson CountyRockingham CountyRowan CountyRutherford CountySampson CountyScotland CountyStanly CountyStokes CountySurry CountySwain CountyTransylvania CountyColumbia Buyer’s Brief, Tyrrell CountyUnion CountyVance CountyWake CountyWarren CountyPlymouth Buyer’s Brief, Washington CountyWatauga CountyWayne CountyWilkes CountyWilson CountyYadkin CountyYancey CountyCarova Beach Brief
Buyer's Brief market Interstate

i.

Moving to North Carolina? Start here.

The relocation guide is the atlas's opening act: six chapters on how this region actually works — the water, the paychecks, the tax arithmetic — a six-question quiz that narrows the network to your county, and a ledger of the numbers behind it all.

Ch. I–VIThe Relocation GuideSix researched chapters on the sound country — from the 4x4 beach to horse country on the Roanoke.Read the guide →6 questionsFind Your CountyNo email required to see your result — the scoring runs on the same documented facts the briefs publish.Take the quiz →The ledgerThe Relocation LedgerTaxes, loan limits, price bands, and closing-cost quirks — the region's numbers, county by county.Read the data →

ii.

The territory, shelf by shelf

Eighteen sites, grouped the way the geography actually groups them. Every site is written and run by the same team. The full profiles live in the site directory.

Outer Banks

2 markets

The paved resort beach and the 4x4 beach beyond it — one shoreline, two entirely different purchases.

Currituck County — Carova Beach

Carova Beach Brief

4x4 beach living on the northern Outer Banks

Visit the site →Deep dive

Currituck County — mainland + paved Corolla

Currituck County Buyer’s Brief

Mainland Currituck and the paved end of the Outer Banks

Visit the site →Deep dive

Albemarle Sound

6 markets

Waterfront historic towns on the region's inland sea — the network's original core.

Pasquotank County — Elizabeth City

Elizabeth City Buyer’s Brief

The Harbor of Hospitality, on the Pasquotank River

Visit the site →Deep dive

Chowan County — Edenton

Edenton Buyer’s Brief

North Carolina’s first colonial capital

Visit the site →Deep dive

Camden County

Camden County Buyer’s Brief

Camden County market coverage

Visit the site →Deep dive

Perquimans County — Hertford

Perquimans County Buyer’s Brief

The $805,000 question

Visit the site →Deep dive

Tyrrell County — Columbia

Columbia Buyer’s Brief

The last quiet county on the way to the beach

Visit the site →Deep dive

Gates County — Gatesville

Gates County Buyer’s Brief

The Hampton Roads escape hatch

Visit the site →Deep dive

Roanoke River & I-95 Corridor

6 markets

River counties, Lake Gaston shoreline, and the interstate exits between Raleigh and Richmond.

Bertie County — Windsor

Bertie County Buyer’s Brief

A river-county read for buyers

Visit the site →Deep dive

Martin County — Williamston

Martin County Buyer’s Brief

Roanoke River country

Visit the site →Deep dive

Washington County — Plymouth

Plymouth Buyer’s Brief

River-town value on the lower Roanoke

Visit the site →Deep dive

Halifax County — Roanoke Rapids / Weldon

Halifax County Buyer’s Brief

I-95 corridor and Lake Gaston shoreline

Visit the site →Deep dive

Northampton County — Jackson

Northampton County Buyer’s Brief

The north shore

Visit the site →Deep dive

Hertford County — Winton / Ahoskie

Hertford County Buyer’s Brief

The paycheck county

Visit the site →Deep dive

Coastal Plain

4 markets

The waterfowl coast, the university city, and the network's biggest inventory.

Hyde County — Swan Quarter

Hyde County Buyer’s Brief

The waterfowl coast

Visit the site →Deep dive

Pitt County — Greenville

Pitt County Buyer’s Brief

Anchored by ECU and ECU Health

Visit the site →Deep dive

Nash County — Rocky Mount / Nashville

Nash County Buyer’s Brief

The split-city west side

Visit the site →Deep dive

Edgecombe County — Tarboro

Edgecombe County Buyer’s Brief

The undervalued historic town on US-64

Visit the site →Deep dive

iii.

The numbers behind the move

Every figure below is drawn from the published research on this network's own county sites — and each county page names its sources.

3.99%
NC's flat income tax (2026). Social Security fully exempt; military retirement exempt since tax year 2021.
$805,000
Perquimans County's 2026 FHA loan limit, the highest in North Carolina, in a county where USDA's map shows no ineligible area.
$138K → $1M+
The honest price span — Martin County's median sale to Corolla and Carova oceanfront.
~90 min
Raleigh and Richmond alike, from Lake Gaston's I-95 exits in Halifax and Northampton counties.
Open the Relocation Ledger →

iv.

Why eighteen sites instead of one

i.

Local, not generic

Each county gets its own site, its own listings filters, and its own original content — written for that county's actual towns and buyers, not a rebadged template.

ii.

One team behind all of it

Every site is run by Horizon Realty Group, a mother-and-son team: Broker Travis Old and Broker-in-Charge Jeanni Old. The same standards and the same direct, no-marketing-speak voice across the whole territory.

iii.

This site is the atlas

NC Buyer's Brief doesn't list its own inventory — it's the grounding site that gets you to the right county brief, and the home of the network's relocation guide and regional data.

Travis Old, Broker at Horizon Realty Group

Broker, Horizon Realty Group

About Travis Old

Travis has spent roughly 20 years working real estate and construction across northeastern North Carolina, from the Outer Banks down through the coastal plain to Pitt County. He built this network of sites the same way he works with buyers: direct, specific, and honest about what a place actually is, not what a listing photo makes it look like.

  • NC Real Estate Broker License #334264
  • NC General Contractor License #99504
  • AHWD (At Home With Diversity)
  • RPR REALTOR Certified Trainer

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