One of the area’s largest residential real estate agencies plans to open a new office in Leland this summer. It also recently relocated its Surf City office to a more central location.

Intracoastal Realty’s office in the shopping area of the Waterford community is currently being upfitted for a planned Aug. 1 grand opening, said Jim Wallace, founder and CEO of the firm.

“What’s pretty exciting about this is we’re going with a very modern kind of edgy design, with this very kind of Silicon Valley look,” Wallace said Monday. “It’s going to be very open and designed with work stations that have all the plug-ins for your computers and laptops and mobile devices. It’s going to be a fun place to work.”

To start, six to eight employees will work out of the office in Leland, one of the county’s fastest-growing areas. “We do a lot of business in Leland already. We have for years, and we have agents who live in that market,” Wallace said. “It’s just a very attractive market to us because northern Brunswick County is growing so rapidly.”   

A new location for the company’s Topsail Island-area office, which opened about three months ago but celebrated a ribbon-cutting ceremony recently, is more centrally located near the town of Surf City’s pier.

“We had another office on the southern end of the island but we decided to move up to Surf City to be more centrally located,” Wallace said. “It gets a lot of foot traffic and it’s got a lot of visibility.”

The Surf City office is about the same size as the previous Topsail Island location, and the Leland office is about 2,000 square feet, located near the entrance to Waterford.