

Edenton & Chowan County, NC
Buying or selling in Edenton?
A working broker's honest guide to the historic district, the waterfront and the $200k–$375k market.
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Three briefs · three buyers
Which Edenton buyer are you?
Historic
For the colonial & waterfront buyer
Read this briefEntry-level
For the $200k–$375k buyer
Read this briefWaterfront & lifestyle
For the buyer relocating from a major metro
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Edenton in a minute
The town behind the briefs.
- Historic district
- National Register+ local overlay; confirm parcel status
- Waterfront
- Albemarle Sound+ Edenton Bay; CAMA varies by parcel
- Property tax
- $1.20 / $100county + town combined, FY2026-27
- Schools
- Chowan Countyabout 2,000 students
- Drive to Norfolk
- 75 milesfrom downtown Edenton
- USDA eligibility
- Most of the countyoutside town center; parcel dependent

North Carolina's second colonial capital, and the town Harriet Jacobs escaped from and wrote about. The eighteenth-century buildings buyers take through COA review today were raised while Edenton still governed the colony.
Read the full history →- Active listings
- 82listed for sale in Chowan County
- Median list price
- $354Khalf list above, half below
- Median days on market
- 81for homes still for sale
- New this week
- 5listed in the last 7 days
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The broker
Travis Old
Horizon Realty Group · North Carolina Real Estate
Travis works the Northeast NC corridor (Chowan, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans) with a focus on buyers whose decisions need an operator's perspective, not a brochure's. Edenton alone splits into three genuinely different transactions: a National Register historic core with its own COA approval process and tax-credit stack, a working waterfront on the Albemarle Sound where CAMA and flood-zone rules decide what you can actually build or renovate, and a $200k–$375k entry-level market where USDA eligibility determines which houses your loan will close on. One combined guide would shortchange all three, which is why this site is three separate briefs instead. Active in regional market data through RPR and an appointed member of the 2026 William C. Bass Leadership Academy.
Serving
Credentials
- 2026William C. Bass Leadership Academy, appointed member
- 2023Licensed North Carolina Real Estate Instructor
- 2017North Carolina General Contractor's License
Education
- 2018University of North Carolina at Greensboro, BA in Economics
- 2016College of the Albemarle at Elizabeth City, Associate Degree

























