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+35 photos$188,500
$83/sq ft
3 bd·3 ba·2,280 sq ft·0.23 ac
937 Sycamore Street, Rocky Mount, NC 27801
Year Built: 1935
Tarboro & Edgecombe County, NC · 2026
The Edgecombe County Buyer's Brief
A 45-block National Register historic district, a river with a flood record worth reading before you buy, and prices that are low for specific, checkable reasons. Three briefs, written to be argued with.
- briefs, built separately
- 3
- year-round residents
- 4,400
- entry-level median
- $295k
- year founded
- 1712
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Three Briefs · Three Buyers
Start with the one that fits you.
Tarboro's buyer profiles diverge sharply. A combined guide would be useless for all three of them. These are written separately on purpose.
Historic Tarboro Brief
For the buyer who wants to restore something
A 45-block National Register district, real rehabilitation tax credits, and a Certificate of Appropriateness process that decides what your project actually costs.
Value & Commuter Brief
For the buyer priced out somewhere else
The county line through Rocky Mount, real US-64 commute math, the sub-$200K market, and the schools-and-services picture nobody volunteers.
River & Floodplain Brief
The part nobody else will put in writing
Princeville, the Tar River flood record from the gauge, how to read a FEMA panel, and what a flood policy actually costs under Risk Rating 2.0.
Town Profile
The town behind the briefs.
Tarboro is the county seat, chartered in 1760. Princeville sits across the Tar River. Rocky Mount straddles the county line. Three different markets, one county, and a set of facts worth knowing before you compare list prices.
- Tarboro historic district
- 364 buildings National Register, listed 1980 — plus a local overlay with a COA process
- County population
- 49,121 Census PEP, July 1 2025
- Drive to Rocky Mount
- 20–25 minutes from Tarboro, about 16 miles
- Drive to Raleigh
- 72 miles via US-64, about 1 hr 15 – 1 hr 25
- Property tax rate
- $1.365 per $100 in Tarboro — county $0.89 + town $0.475, FY2026-27
- USDA eligibility
- Nearly countywide Rocky Mount is the exclusion — verify the parcel
Live Data
Current Tarboro market activity.
What this site publishes about the Edgecombe County market, what it deliberately does not publish, and why. Read this before you trust a median price from anywhere.
No median price, days-on-market or months-of-inventory figure is published on this site. The market report explains why.
The broker
Travis Old
Horizon Realty Group · North Carolina Real Estate
Travis is a licensed North Carolina broker and a licensed general contractor, working buyers who want an operator's read rather than a brochure's. Edgecombe County splits into three genuinely different transactions: a National Register historic district with a Certificate of Appropriateness process and a real rehabilitation tax credit; the Tar River floodplain, where the flood record and the insurance quote decide whether a low price is actually low; and a value-and-commuter market where the county line through Rocky Mount changes your tax bill and your school district. One combined guide would shortchange all three, which is why this site is three separate briefs. Appointed member of the 2026 William C. Bass Leadership Academy.
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Credentials
- 2026William C. Bass Leadership Academy, appointed member
- 2023Licensed North Carolina Real Estate Instructor
- 2017North Carolina General Contractor's License
Education
- 2018University of North Carolina at Greensboro, BA in Economics
- 2016College of the Albemarle at Elizabeth City, Associate Degree
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