Travis Old

I grew up in Moyock, and I've spent most of my career working the counties east of I-95 that get skipped over in most real estate coverage — Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Chowan, Bertie, and Martin. Pitt is a different kind of market than the others I work. It's the largest county in this stretch of eastern North Carolina, with a stable base of demand that the smaller counties don't have — East Carolina University and ECU Health alone bring a steady stream of buyers who need to move on a schedule, not whenever the market feels like cooperating.

This brief exists because Pitt County buyers fall into three groups that almost never overlap: people relocating for a job at ECU or ECU Health and buying near the university-and-medical corridor around Greenville and Winterville, people drawn to the historic small-town character of Farmville, Ayden, and Bethel, and people looking for working farmland or acreage out in the rural townships — Grimesland, Simpson, Fountain, Falkland, and Grifton. Each of those buyers needs a different set of facts, and I've tried to write this so each one gets a straight answer instead of a generic county overview.

I'm not going to oversell this market, and I'm not going to undersell it either. Pitt isn't a thin, declining county — it's grown around a university and a major regional hospital system, and that shows up in steadier demand near Greenville than you'll find in a lot of eastern NC counties. But it's not uniform: the ECU corridor moves differently than Farmville's historic district, and rural Pitt moves differently still, with its own financing rules and its own flood-risk realities along the Tar River that I'll tell you about plainly rather than gloss over.

I'd rather answer a question over the phone than have you dig for it on a page — call or text the number at the top, and you'll get me directly, not a call center. Every chapter here stays free to read whether we end up working together or not.