Who doesn’t love the beach ? Duh, everyone loves the beach ! ( Well, everyone I know loves the beach and I know a fair number of people, so let’s just extrapolate from there…..) And the only thing better than sitting out on the sand, under a huge beach umbrella, reading the latest Sara Gruen novel or maybe re-reading a Tony Hillerman mystery ( I so love Joe Leaphorn ) is sitting in your beach house in a chaise lounge, out on your own deck, overlooking the beach, inhaling soft briny breezes, maybe smiling through “Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie” or trying to unravel the latest Pynchon literary offering. But the frosty iced tea pitcher, the pantry and the CD changer are sooo much closer, just reach out and touch someone. Well, what might be just as good, or maybe even better, is sitting on your beachfront deck, wine glass in hand, as the sun slips below the horizon and paints the sand and the water in brilliant sunset colors. Which, of course, is why so many of our real estate customers contact Blue Heron Realty Co. with a request to help them find a great buy on a beach lot or home. ( www.blueheronva.com )
Great news ! If you’re looking to purchase beach real estate in Virginia, the Eastern Shore is the very best location in Virginia to find both beachfront and beach access property at affordable prices, great prices that make the heart beat a little faster and fingers itch to grab a pen and sign some papers. Sure they have beautiful beach property in Virginia Beach, less than an hour away. But who wants to pay about a million dollars for a 40 x 175 lot and share with about a billion tourists ? Fine if your job places you there and you love the beach. But if you’re looking for a leisure home, a retirement home or just plain relaxed, low key year-round living and would prefer private and pristine low density neighborhood beaches at an actually affordable price, then Virginia’s Eastern Shore could be the place for you !
In this blog post I’m featuring a beachfront home, a waterfront cottage with deeded beach access and a beachfront lot for sale. All of these properties are great deals ! The beachfront home at $995,000 is a truly wonderful purchase opportunity. It’s a lovely 3 bedroom home on nearly two acres, wooded, with almost 200 feet of magnificant beach shoreline in a small, very upscale beach neighborhood. ( Plenty of room to add- on if more bedrooms are desirable. ) This intimate little neighborhood offers a swim & tennis facility and access to a private freshwater lake, nice for those who like to canoe or kayak.
The cozy 3 bedroom waterfront cottage with deeded beach access for sale for $359,000 is located in a tiny waterfront neighborhood of only 50 homes. The cottage is sited on a one acre waterfront lot on a small inlet from the Chesapeake Bay, only a couple miles from Cape Charles and the Palmer and Nicklaus signature golf courses. It’s less than a five minute walk to the neighborhood’s 10 acre private sand beach— the perfect place to build sand castles or do some surf fishing at sunset. Or enjoy catching some of our famous Chesapeake Bay blue crabs from the backyard dock. If you are thinking of buying a leisure home and would like to get some rental income to help off-set mortgage payments, this could be a good property for doing some weekly summer rentals. ( Blue Heron Realty Co. has a vacation rental department and we can handle all the details for you. Just call us at 757-678-5200 )
Last, but not least, is a one acre plus beachfront homesite located on a bluff overlooking 500 miles of sparking blue waters at the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay, one of Mother Nature’s very best addresses ! Here is an opportunity to purchase a sizable beachfront lot for just $429,000. Pick custom home plans perfect for your particular needs, get rolling with construction and be living in your dream beachfront home by Spring. ( Blue Heron can help you find a contractor.) So relaxing, just sitting out on your deck, golden sunshine, listening to waves lapping and seabirds calling, feeling the soft salty breezes, neck muscles totally loose, some Dave Brubeck playing in the background, happily reading the National Electrical Code 2011 Handbook due out this winter. No, no, sorry, just a bad joke ! I meant reading Pat Conroy’s new book “My Reading Life” , also due out this winter. Anyway, the point is that if you are looking to buy beachfront property in Virginia, come take a look at the fabulous beach real estate for sale here on the Eastern Shore. You’ll be amazed and delighted at what you’ll find, I guarantee it !! ( Call us at 800-258-3437 for more particulars on these properties and don’t forget to check out our website for some other great buys– www.blueheronva.com )
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