Mountain view real estate at a reasonable price! Would you like to be sitting on your front porch taking in beautiful long range mountain views with your morning coffee? Take a look at Rutherford County, NC. You'll fall in love with the unspoiled rural beauty of this western North Carolina location. Great views of the Blue Ridge mountains, sparkling streams, and tall hardwoods await you. The prices in this area are almost too good to be true. Look at the pricing pages on this website. Let nature's peace and quiet replace the stress and noise of your urban life. We offer beautiful acreage with light restrictions to protect your investment. Rutherford County has elevations nearing 4000 feet, it's sparsely populated with friendly people, and with it's wonderfully slow growth rate, it will stay that way for many, many years. Choose affordable mountain views in the new Hearthstone Ridge community, or beautiful wooded parcels in Clearwater Creek, a few miles closer to town. Here you can enjoy the simple pleasures of simple living!

Rutherford County is a peaceful setting for your vacation retreat relocation, or retirement home. The quiet county seat of Rutherfordton offers services such as a 143-bed hospital, large grocery stores, good schools, the county court house, banks, and more. Within ten or twelve minutes are several large chain stores, so you can find everything you need. And with Asheville and even larger cities close by, you'll never feel like you have to do without. Rural flavor? Yes. Remote isolation? No.

Do you like to chase a little white ball around? Golf at Cleghorn Plantation, Meadowbrook, or the Apple Valley & Bald Mountain courses in Lake Lure. Maybe try your game at the new Jack Nicklaus project of Queens Gap, and Arnold Palmers' new White Oaks Plantation. There are also great municipal courses in Forest City, Lake Lure and Rutherfordton. All in all, there are 30+ courses within 30 miles of here. Not your style? Try your hand at panning for gold, look for precious gems, shop antique stores, get into water sports, or take a romantic dinner cruise on beautiful Lake Lure, NC.

When the weather gets cold, ski Hawk's Nest, Sugar Mountain, Beech Mountain or Appalachian Ski resorts. When it's warmer, hike the highest peaks east of the Mississippi on Mt. Mitchell, or walk the mile-high swinging bridge at Grandfather Mountain. All of them are just an hour and a half drive or less from Rutherfordton. Shop 'til you drop in Asheville, explore the Biltmore Estate or the beauty of Western North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway, or maybe just curl up in front of your own cozy fire in our quiet, safe, secure, gated communities.

The 2006 HGTV Dream Home brought an abundance of attention to the beautiful mountains of Lake Lure. Now Rutherford County is getting noticed, and the prices will never be lower. After all, isn't the plan to buy low? What are you waiting for? Really.....what are you waiting for?