ActiveWaterfront
+33 photos$365,000
$585/sq ft
2 bd·1 ba·624 sq ft·0.18 ac
102 Shore Drive, Hertford, NC 27944
Year Built: 1964
Perquimans County, NC
Buying or selling in Perquimans County?
The county seat is the town of Hertford — not to be confused with Hertford County, a different county to the west. A wind-driven river running into the Albemarle Sound, nineteen National Register listings, twenty-three minutes to Elizabeth City, and the highest FHA loan limit of any county in North Carolina.
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Perquimans County in a minute
The county behind the brief.
- County seat
- Town of Hertfordnot Hertford County
- Population
- ~13,490Census estimate, July 2025
- Median owner-occupied value
- $231,700ACS 2020–2024
- FHA one-unit limit
- $805,000HUD CY2026 — highest in NC
- Property tax
- $0.55per $100, FY2026-27; ~$1.07 inside town limits
- Local land transfer tax
- 1%one of seven NC counties
A 1661 land deed at Durants Neck, the earliest Quaker meetings in North Carolina, a house dated by its own rafters, and a swing bridge rebuilt to echo the one it replaced — how three and a half centuries on the Perquimans River built the county buyers see today.
Read the full history →What I don't publish is a price band or a days-on-market figure: this county is too thin a market for either to mean what it would mean somewhere bigger, and a misleading median is worse than none.
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Travis Old
Horizon Realty Group · North Carolina Real Estate
Travis works Northeast NC (Perquimans, Chowan, Pasquotank, Camden, Currituck and the counties around them) for buyers whose decisions need an operator's perspective rather than a brochure's. Licensed NC Real Estate Broker and NC General Contractor, which matters in a county with this much old housing stock.
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