Gatlinburg Real Estate Blog

All around Gatlinburg, property owners are cleaning up their properties after the great Gatlinburg fire. Many owners are planning on rebuilding immediately, others may not replace the burned structures, but it is SO important that our community clean up the debris. If Gatlinburg is to fully recover, property owners MUST clean up the burned up wreckage even if they aren't rebuilding right now. A good indication that this is happening in earnest is the tremendous number of dump trucks that are rolling all over the city. As I travelled on Wiley Oakley Rd across the decimated Chalet Village community Friday, I shot this photo from behind the wheel of my vehicle: Although the large dump trucks that were passing each other yesterday were locally owned and operated, the out of town companies are also working here as proven by the hastily shot photo below of another truck full of debris that I also saw Friday: Honestly, we can use the help as over 2,400 structures were destroyed. Fortunate...

All around Gatlinburg, property owners are cleaning up their properties after the great Gatlinburg fire. Many owners are planning on rebuilding immediately, others may not replace the burned structures, but it is SO important that our community clean up the debris. If Gatlinburg is to fully recover, property owners MUST clean up the burned up wreckage even if they aren't rebuilding right now. A good indication that this is happening in earnest is the tremendous number of dump trucks that are rolling all over the city. As I travelled on Wiley Oakley Rd across the decimated Chalet Village community Friday, I shot this photo from behind the wheel of my vehicle: Although the large dump trucks that were passing each other yesterday were locally owned and operated, the out of town companies are also working here as proven by the hastily shot photo below of another truck full of debris that I also saw Friday: Honestly, we can use the help as over 2,400 structures were destroyed...

The damage from the Great Gatlinburg Fire of 2016 is still being counted but many Gatlinburg businesses are closed only because much of the city is still largely shuttered due to safety concerns. Fear and a anxious public have caused a lot of rumors to be spread and this is an attempt to counter those mistruths. Almost all of the Gatlinburg businesses on the parkway were spared (although some in the Baskin's Creek and Highway 321 areas certainly weren't). The following Gatlinburg area businesses have been incorrectly reported as destroyed or very seriously damaged but they had no or VERY limited damage and will reopen today or as soon as Gatlinburg is opened again to the public: The Gatlinburg Ripley's Aquarium The Park Vista Hotel Black Bear Falls Resort Pi Beta Phi Elementary To my knowledge NO Pigeon Forge or Wears Valley businesses are closed . Although temporarily evacuated because the fires did get close, Dollywood and Dollywood's DreamMore Resort reopened only a ...

The damage from the Great Gatlinburg Fire of 2016 is still being counted but many Gatlinburg businesses are closed only because much of the city is still largely shuttered due to safety concerns. Fear and a anxious public have caused a lot of rumors to be spread and this is an attempt to counter those mistruths. Almost all of the Gatlinburg businesses on the parkway were spared (although some in the Baskin's Creek and Highway 321 areas certainly weren't). The following Gatlinburg area businesses have been incorrectly reported as destroyed or very seriously damaged but they had no or VERY limited damage and will reopen today or as soon as Gatlinburg is opened again to the public: The Gatlinburg Ripley's Aquarium The Park Vista Hotel Black Bear Falls Resort Pi Beta Phi Elementary To my knowledge NO Pigeon Forge or Wears Valley businesses are closed . Although temporarily evacuated because the fires did get close, Dollywood and Dollywood's DreamMore Resort reopene...

The recent Gatlinburg and Sevier County wildfires have been a nightmare and the damage has been extreme. We now have a total of 14 people who have died because of the fire and over 1500 buildings in our area have been destroyed and that number may exceed 2000 by the time we have completed the tally. Dozens of primary residences have been consumed and we are still counting the damage. Nobody is talking dollars yet but I'm confident that the total value of the real estate lost will exceed $150,000,000. In the wake of the wildfires, much more has been damaged. In addition to the lives lost and the real estate destroyed, we are facing the at least temporary loss of lots of jobs. If you work in the city limits, even though the damage to the downtown Gatlinburg area was truly minimal, those businesses haven't been open for a week now. Many will not reopen in Gatlinburg for some time, including our own office: Our office prior to the fire The same property after the fire

The recent Gatlinburg and Sevier County wildfires have been a nightmare and the damage has been extreme. We now have a total of 14 people who have died because of the fire and over 1500 buildings in our area have been destroyed and that number may exceed 2000 by the time we have completed the tally. Dozens of primary residences have been consumed and we are still counting the damage. Nobody is talking dollars yet but I'm confident that the total value of the real estate lost will exceed $150,000,000. In the wake of the wildfires, much more has been damaged. In addition to the lives lost and the real estate destroyed, we are facing the at least temporary loss of lots of jobs. If you work in the city limits, even though the damage to the downtown Gatlinburg area was truly minimal, those businesses haven't been open for a week now. Many will not reopen in Gatlinburg for some time, including our own office: Our office prior to the fire The same property after the fire ...