Chapter 1
Perquimans County, and the Town of Hertford
What This County Is — and Why It Gets Confused With Another One
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Everything I would want to know before buying in Perquimans County, North Carolina — including the town of Hertford, Winfall and Belvidere
This is the whole thing, free and ungated. There is no email wall on any chapter and there never will be — the offer on this site is new listings by email, and it is optional.
Read it in order if you are new to the county; Chapter 1 does the orientation and clears up the single most confusable fact about this market. If you already know where you are going, the chapter list below is written so you can jump straight to the one that applies to you. Every substantive claim carries a source at the foot of its chapter, and where I could not verify something, I say so rather than paraphrasing it into a fact.
Before you read further
This site covers Perquimans County, whose county seat is the town of Hertford. Hertford County is a separate county with its own seat, Winton, about 45 minutes west — the town of Hertford is not in it. We cover that county too: the Hertford County Buyer's Brief.
Chapter 1
What This County Is — and Why It Gets Confused With Another One
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Wind-Driven Water, Navigable Depth & What CAMA Means for a Waterfront Lot
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Nineteen National Register Listings, Five Districts & What Listing Actually Restricts
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Elizabeth City, Edenton & the Hampton Roads Run — With the Census Numbers
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Program Facts, the 2018 Flood Maps & Who Actually Issues Your Permits
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Four Schools, No Hospital & an Honest Inventory of the Drive
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The $805,000 FHA Anomaly, USDA Zero-Down & the 1% Tax Nobody Budgets For
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Five Buyer Profiles and What Each One Should Verify Before Writing an Offer
Read chapter →New Perquimans County listings, emailed as they hit the MLS. No drip campaign, no weekly newsletter, no account — just the listings.
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