Asheville Real Estate-Jim Cottam Asheville Real Estate

Many Realtors try to restrict your access to the MLS because they want control over the process. The Jim Cottam Team's approach is entirely different. We give you access to as much information as possible.

We created a Google Maps based home search tool that searches the Asheville NC real estate market, and we include the address of the homes, so you can drive by yourself. In fact, we'll even help you help yourself with our free GPS loaner so you don't get lost.

We've also had many buyers wondering if they could search for certain keywords, like "mountain view", "downtown condo", "green built", "foreclosure", "level lot" or "one level living" so we created an Asheville real estate search tool for that too. Just go to our advanced search page, scroll down, and type your keywords into the remarks field. Even Realtors don't have the ability to search by keywords in their super-duper MLS search tool, so they use our site too!

Looking for the latest sales data and research tools for the Asheville Real Estate Market?

Do your own research by going to our market page. You will find sales trends reports, sales history reports, active listings reports, sales medians reports, closed listings reports, and existing home sales reports. You can also go to our buyers page and find links to the Buncombe County Register of Deeds, Henderson County Register of Deeds, Asheville Crime Mapper, Buncombe County Tax Records, Henderson County Tax Records, Asheville GIS system, Buncombe County GIS,and other links to help you.

We are here to help when you need us! Not before.

Everyone wants some hand holding at a different part of their Asheville home search process. Some buyers want us to show them homes at the beginning of their search, and other buyers want to drive themselves around until they've narrowed their choices to a few Asheville homes or a few Asheville neighborhoods. The point is, we're here when you need us, and we won't bother you until you're ready for us to help.

Automated e-mail updates.

But that's not all. In our quest to empower you with information, we've automated some of the more tedious parts of your Asheville home search. By signing up for Asheville Home Finder you can have our servers check the Asheville MLS for you, every day, for any homes that match your criteria. You can search by: neighborhood, Asheville City school districts, Buncombe County school districts, price range, county, city, bedrooms, bathrooms and yes even keywords. If you want to be alerted when a 3 BR/3BA home, priced $400,000-$600,000 in Biltmore Park is for sale, no problem, we'll email you as soon as any homes that match come on the market And yes, we give you the street address so you can drive by yourself to see if you're interested.

Perfect place to start your Asheville home search.

Our Asheville NC Real Estate Website is the perfect place to start your search for real estate in Asheville, Biltmore Forest, Hendersonville and the surrounding areas. You can search Asheville homes for sale, sign up for free newsletters, receive e-mail alerts, find Asheville/Buncombe County school information, request a comparative market analysis, or find historical data on the Asheville real estate market. There are pages full of useful information for both buyers and sellers as well as links to help you find all the exciting things to do in and around Asheville.

Asheville is a lifestyle choice.

Investing in Asheville NC real estate is a pursuit to embrace a lifestyle, an adventure, an intrinsic beauty, and a small town sense of community. Within the Asheville market you will find a thriving arts community, a vibrant downtown, numerous historic and architectural attractions, unique shopping opportunities and numerous outdoor adventures.

Outside magazine has consistently ranked Asheville NC among its top destinations for outdoor recreation and adventures. The Asheville market and the surrounding Biltmore Forest, Black Mountain, Hendersonville and Brevard areas provide its residents with breath taking vistas, award winning golf courses, hundreds of waterfalls, trout fishing, world class mountain biking, hiking/running trails, backpacking, and white water rafting.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, Pisgah National Forest, Nantahala National Forest, Mt. Mitchell State Park and Dupont State Forest are all located within or just a short drive from the Asheville area. The mountains surrounding Asheville offer endless adventures and breath taking views.

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