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WBM february 2018
The view over downtown Wilmington, looking
south toward the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge. WBM FILE PHOTO
JIMMY HOPKINS of RE/MAX
Executive says a lot of his buyers are
young couples who now have a family
and are moving to a larger home — a
more expensive home.
“Downtown is booming,” Hopkins says. “Even
the Southside with Vivian Howard’s restaurant. The
buzz of people wanting to move back down. For
years, the downtown had moved to the Mayfaire
area, that became Wilmington’s downtown.
And now folks are coming back to the historic
downtown.”
While each location or town varied the amount
of time a property took to sell, the county-wide
average shrank by 22 percent from 100 in 2016 to
just 78 days. And to listing agents’ delight, multiple
offers were frequent.
“We definitely saw the return of the multiple
offer,” says Carla Lewis. “Multiple offers came into
the county the likes of which we had not seen since
2005. They came back with a fury.”
