Citing concerns about overdevelopment, the Pender County Planning Board narrowly voted Tuesday to recommend denying a rezoning request for a proposed 55-plus age-targeted community with 930 single-family homes off Sidbury Road. Builders would construct the homes on a 404-acre tract of undeveloped land on the New Hanover-Pender county line, an area that has seen an influ ...

After some negotiation, Wilmington leaders committed $2 million in gap financing on Tuesday to an 86-unit affordable housing project planned along Dawson Street. The project, called the Dawson Lofts II at Jervay, would offer rents ranging from 30% to 80% of the area median income (AMI). It’s being developed by the Wilmington Housing Authority and Blue Ridge Cascad ...

An unincorporated section of northern New Hanover County is one of the last frontiers for large building sites within county limits. Although a Census Designated Place, the Castle Hayne community has none of its own official geographical limits, and many people use the moniker to describe not only Castle Hayne Road, but also Blue Clay and Sidbury roads. So it’s ...

Pender County planning officials are recommending that county leaders deny a rezoning for a proposed project that could bring more than 1,000 single-family homes to 630 acres near Rocky Point. In a 3-1 vote on Tuesday, the Pender County Planning Board recommended denial of the conditional rezoning for the neighborhood proposed by Bill Clark Homes, citing concerns about ...

Brunswick County's residential real estate market posted its highest number of June home sales in the past 20 years. According to a Brunswick County Association of Realtors news release, home sales and total sales volume both topped June 2025 levels, with year-to-date sales volume nearly 18% ahead of last year.  “June was one of the strongest mont ...

Construction is slated to begin this fall on a townhome community planned for a Covil Avenue property that’s been vacant for more than a decade. The project, which includes 65 three-bedroom townhomes, is planned for a 5.4-acre site at 202, 310 and 314 Covil Ave. that once housed Port South Village, an assisted living facility that closed in 2013. Developers are aw ...

 New Leaf Builders, a company based in the Charleston area, has branched out. The homebuilder, which established its Wilmington-area presence with houses in Riverlights, a 1,400-acre master planned community off River Road, has been working on homes in Brunswick County for the first time. New Leaf is one of the builders creating homes in East Lake, a more than 2,00 ...

A 350-acre property in Brunswick County is on the market for nearly $9.75 million. The property, called Cutter Ridge Plantation, is a turnkey property equipped for outdoor recreation, said Cailein Campbell, the property’s listing agent and a managing broker with National Land Realty. It features a quail preserve and eight stocked fishing ponds, a five-bedroom hous ...

Brunswick County’s residential real estate market reached new heights in May, according to a news release this week from the Brunswick County Association of Realtors (BCAR). Citing data from the Hive Multiple Listing Service, BCAR officials said May turned out to be the market's "strongest sales month of the year and highest single-month sales volume ...

A project that proposed nearly 500 residential units on more than 40 acres near Mayfaire appears to be on hold for now. Called Mayfaire West, the project, which was announced last spring, proposed 256 apartments, along with 223 carriage houses and townhomes, on undeveloped land between Town Center Drive and Gregory Road. More than a year later, there are no pending deve ...