Gatlinburg Real Estate Blog

You can live practically on top of the world and yet be only 15 minutes from the center of town! Some times a picture is worth a thousand words and if that is true, a video (made up of 1000's of individual pictures) might possibly be worth millions of words. Click here to view  Our Newest Smoky Mountain Real Estate Video ! This casually elegant Wears Valley home really is a showplace worth seeing in person!!!

You can live practically on top of the world and yet be only 15 minutes from the center of town! Some times a picture is worth a thousand words and if that is true, a video (made up of 1000's of individual pictures) might possibly be worth millions of words. Click here to view  Our Newest Smoky Mountain Real Estate Video ! This casually elegant Wears Valley home really is a showplace worth seeing in person!!!

For many years here in the Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge areas, as well as the rest of Sevier County, real estate developers have carved a tremendous number of cabins ever deeper into the forests around these communities. Recently, I have witnessed the revenge that the wild side of Sevier County has exacted upon some of these developments. Bears in downtown Sevierville, trees crashing through roofs, and then the more subtle but potentially even more destructive attack of the insects... Boring bees, termites, and other insects are a part of God's recycling plan that takes dead trees and converts them into mulch for the forest. Unfortunately, the rather unintelligent insects sometimes confuse purpose built structures (made from dead trees) with every day ordinary dead trees and the results can be disastrous. Consider the foreclosure home in Wears Valley we were just assigned that I viewed for the first time today: Sadly, the exterior of this Sevierville (actually Wears Valley) cabin is...

For many years here in the Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge areas, as well as the rest of Sevier County, real estate developers have carved a tremendous number of cabins ever deeper into the forests around these communities. Recently, I have witnessed the revenge that the wild side of Sevier County has exacted upon some of these developments. Bears in downtown Sevierville, trees crashing through roofs, and then the more subtle but potentially even more destructive attack of the insects... Boring bees, termites, and other insects are a part of God's recycling plan that takes dead trees and converts them into mulch for the forest. Unfortunately, the rather unintelligent insects sometimes confuse purpose built structures (made from dead trees) with every day ordinary dead trees and the results can be disastrous. Consider the foreclosure home in Wears Valley we were just assigned that I viewed for the first time today: Sadly, the exterior of this Sevierville (actually Wears Valley)...

This morning there was news that a rock slide had occurred on Wears Valley Road (US Highway 321), just a few miles north of our office (as the crow flies) but in the Wears Valley community.  I had to go that direction to take pictures of a new Gatlinburg area foreclosure that we will soon have listed and this is what I came upon: Note that the fallen rock is a single chunk of the mountain that is at least twice the size of the car that is going by it!  When those signs say, "Watch for Falling Rock", they ain't just whistling Dixie as the old saying goes.  Believe it or not, this picture doesn't quite do justice to just how large the rock really is.  It is a rough cube in shape, approximately as deep as it is tall and wide.  You really could fit about two SUVs within the volume that this rock occupies.  Even more amazingly, the rock came from the rather obvious void visible in the top right corner of the photo.  That's right, it ROLLED to wh...

This morning there was news that a rock slide had occurred on Wears Valley Road (US Highway 321), just a few miles north of our office (as the crow flies) but in the Wears Valley community.  I had to go that direction to take pictures of a new Gatlinburg area foreclosure that we will soon have listed and this is what I came upon: Note that the fallen rock is a single chunk of the mountain that is at least twice the size of the car that is going by it!  When those signs say, "Watch for Falling Rock", they ain't just whistling Dixie as the old saying goes.  Believe it or not, this picture doesn't quite do justice to just how large the rock really is.  It is a rough cube in shape, approximately as deep as it is tall and wide.  You really could fit about two SUVs within the volume that this rock occupies.  Even more amazingly, the rock came from the rather obvious void visible in the top right corner of the photo.  That's right, it ROLLED to wh...

Our nation's residential real estate market, and out Gatlinburg real estate market, have suffered greatly over the past three years. Prices have dropped and foreclosures have mounted, volume dried up, and real estate agencies and agents dwindled dramatically. While the outlook for Smoky Mountain residential real estate is looking up , our area's (and the entire country's) commercial market may struggle for some time to come. Here is a picture from earlier this year of a bustling business in the Wears Valley Community: And here is how the same commercial real estate looked when I drove past it last weekend: Once again, the enemy is excessive debt and over optimistic lending. Many commercial real estate purchases are financed by interest only mortgages and most, if not all, commercial loans are short term in nature. Most require that they be renewed every 3-5 years at the then current terms and there in lies the rub. The bank regulators are requiring that commercial loan b...

Our nation's residential real estate market, and out Gatlinburg real estate market, have suffered greatly over the past three years. Prices have dropped and foreclosures have mounted, volume dried up, and real estate agencies and agents dwindled dramatically. While the outlook for Smoky Mountain residential real estate is looking up , our area's (and the entire country's) commercial market may struggle for some time to come. Here is a picture from earlier this year of a bustling business in the Wears Valley Community: And here is how the same commercial real estate looked when I drove past it last weekend: Once again, the enemy is excessive debt and over optimistic lending. Many commercial real estate purchases are financed by interest only mortgages and most, if not all, commercial loans are short term in nature. Most require that they be renewed every 3-5 years at the then current terms and there in lies the rub. The bank regulators are requiring that commercial loan b...