A Guide To Owning an Outer Banks Oceanfront Home
To help guide you through the process of purchasing an oceanfront home on the Outer Banks, we have put together this coprehensive guide to owning an ocean front house.
There is a perfect beachfront house or condo waiting for you. You just have to find the right one and on this site finding the right property is easy to do. Every oceanfront property for sale in Corolla, Duck, Southern Shores, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head and on Hatteras Island has a full page loaded with all the details, listing agent remarks, photos and features offered. Click on the links above to see what is for sale. No login required and full details along with the full array of photos are provided for each property.
Owning an ocean front house on the Outer Banks is a dream shared by a lot of people. Not many of them have the resources and/or the courage to actually make that dream come true. If you are one of the fortunate ones looking to buy an ocean front property then you should find this site useful.
Oceanfront: These homes are directly on the Atlantic Ocean, with no other properties between them and the beach. They offer immediate beach access, direct ocean views, and the sound of crashing waves. Not all oceanfront homes are the same and the same can be said about oceanfront lots. The contour of the ocean floor varies which results in varying oceanfront erosion rates from one end of the OBX to the other.
OBX Oceanfront Access Different oceanfront areas have different rules on what you can do with your property. For example, there are some areas where you can not build a walkway across the dunes to access the beach and some where you can build a walkway and a dune top gazebo. Some properties share an ocean access with the neighbors and some with 4 or 5 homes. This is done to help protect the line of Oceanfront Dunes on the OBX.
There was a time when you could find different OBX Oceanfront Flood Zones in different areas across the Outer Banks. There are even oceanfront homes perched up on top of a tall dune where flood insurance was not required. Oceanfront homes are all required to obtain flood insurance.
Not all OBX Oceanfront Views are the same. The style of the house, the size of the dune and the location of the neighboring houses all can affect the ocean view.
The same storms that sank hundreds of ships off the coast of the Outer Banks continue batter the line of oceanfront homes causing routine household maintenance not typical to most homes.
Up and down the Atlantic coast you can find private oceanfront communities where they have OBX Private Oceanfront Beaches private beaches just for the residents and their guests. You won't find any of those in North Carolina.
Some areas like Southern Shores, Corolla and Nags Head have very stable oceanfront beaches while some areas like Kitty Hawk, South Nags Head and the north end of Rodanthe, all have high erosion rates with up to 14 feet of ocean front eroding yearly. This is where you will find the really really discounted prices on OBX Oceanfront Wash Ins.
Oceanfront erosion OBX Oceanfront Erosion OBX Oceanfront Erosion MapsOceanfront Setbacks: The Coastal Resources Commission enforces oceanfront setback requirements="", which mandate a minimum distance a structure must be set back from the first line of stable, natural vegetation. These rules aim to reduce risk to property from erosion and storms.
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