We're gonna tell you 12 things you need to know before moving to Holly Springs, North Carolina.
Hello everyone. This is Chris Morton real estate broker with EXP Realty. And there are 12 things
you need to know about moving to Holly Springs. Starting with number one, Holly Springs may feel
boring for some people. It appears that the primary hobbies for people who live in Holly
Springs are attending soccer practice and watching their grass grow. Now, there's nothing wrong with
these two hobbies. If you want a slower pace lifestyle, this is fine. However, if you want
any form of action and I literally mean any form of action, you may question if Holly Springs
is a good place for you. It's very sanitized, it’s very new, not a lot going on. And again,
I'm not trying to downgrade Holly Springs, it’s a nice place to live. They've got internet fiber,
courtesy of Ting. More on them in a little while. Lots of good restaurants, although a lot of them
are chain restaurants like Chilis. They've got shopping like Target, Bed Bath and Beyond,
all kinds of stuff like that. But it's just not somewhere if you want like gritty and action and
stuff, it's just not that. And please for all of the haters out there that think we're talking bad
and we're being negative Nancy’s, that's not what this is about. We pride ourselves on our channel
here of being very honest and calling balls and strikes and we have got to call it what it is.
Nice town, just a little bit boring for some people.
Number two thing you need to know about Holly Springs and we've kind of alluded to it already,
Holly Springs is the definition of suburbia. So literally if you google suburbia, an image of
Holly Springs will probably appear. It's a great town, but very much a bedroom community. Meaning
a lot of people live there, work in Research Triangle Park, Cary, other places, maybe they
work from home and they're looking for that easy lifestyle where there's not a lot of drama
and that's kind of the people that live in Holly Springs. Nothing wrong with that, it's
just suburbia. It's kind of like if you've ever been to Disney World and gone to Epcot
and you see the countries, and it's sort of like a sanitized version of
England and France and Canada and China and all the countries. It's kind of like that, nothing
wrong with it, it's just a sanitized version of some of the other towns around the triangle.
Number three thing you need to know about Holly Springs, it has a really,
really good location. Holly spring is smack dab in the middle of Apex and Fuquay-Varina, about ten
minutes on either side. You’re twenty-five minutes to Research Triangle Park, twenty-five minutes
to the airport, and about eighteen minutes to the Apex, Cary Costco, so really good location.
That's why a lot of people want to live there and why it's become such a popular place to live.
The number four thing you need to know about Holly Springs, prices of homes are decent but rising. So
the thing you need to know about Holly Springs is you're still getting a good deal, especially
compared to its neighbors. Homes are about $590,000 in Holly Springs for a single family,
versus $640,000 for a single family home in Apex and $725,000 for a single family home in Cary. And
these are all median home values of recent sales. So just so you know, apples to apples. Prices are
relatively reasonable compared to its neighbors. But I think people are surprised that Holly
Springs costs a little more than they expected, given the fact that it's kind of to the south of
the rest of the triangle, but it is very popular. It is growing and people want to live there.
The number five thing you need to know, Holly Springs is growing rapidly. Just two decades ago,
there were only a thousand residents in Holly Springs. I can't even imagine that. I lived
here at that time and that just boggles my mind. So a thousand people lived there twenty years ago.
Forty-thousand plus people live there today. And this is from like the 2019, 2020 stats.
So here in 2022, probably even more people than that. So Holly Springs is growing. It's very, very
popular again because of location. Again, because of quality of life. Again, because you have a lot
of amenities and things around you like grocery stores and stuff like that. So know that it's
growing. If you want to be in on something that's growing, Holly Springs may be the city for you.
The number six thing you need to know, Holly Springs downtown is just, okay.
So again, not trying to be a negative Nancy about it, but it really lacks a lot of the
character of some of the other downtowns, like Fuquay- Varina, one of my favorites, Apex, even
Cary’s downtown is up and coming. Holly Springs is really kind of new. There's just a lot of like new
commercial buildings down there and restaurants and it's okay, nothing terrible about it. There's
dentists down there. There's a few restaurants. A couple of Italian restaurants. We ate at Sir
Walter Coffee Shop this past weekend and had a nice brunch, good coffee,
nothing terrible about it. It just is very new and tapioca pudding, but it's not terrible.
You may like it. I recommend definitely if you're considering Holly Springs or if this
sounds like something you're curious about, definitely go take a trip down
to Holly Springs. Park your car, there's free parking behind the main drag. Park your car,
have some lunch, have some breakfast, whatever, and get to kind of feel the city out and see what
you think about it. You may like it. I don't hate it. I just think it's a little, okay.
The number seven thing you need to know about is Holly Springs Town
Center. This is a major shopping center in Holly Springs. It's not the only shopping center,
there's another one with a Chick-fil-A and a Harris Teeter and all that sort of thought stuff,
kind of like three miles away from Holly Springs Town Center. But, Holly Springs Town Center is
really, really big. There's an AMC movie theater there, really cool, there's Target, Bed Bath
and Beyond. We've talked about Chilies. We've talked about there's a Mason Jar Tavern, which
is in Fuquay-Varina. That's also in Holly Springs. It's in a new building and looks more sanitized,
not as in clean, but like, you know, sanitized, dignified than the one in Fuquay. Imagine that,
but there's a lot of stuff there. It's a very cool complex. The great part about it is super close to
everything. You're really kind of in the center of the town when you're in Holly Springs Town Center,
good name, I guess. So definitely worth your trouble to go check that out and see
all the amenities you have by living in Holly Springs.
The number eight thing you need to know, there are three Starbucks’ in Holly Springs.
One in that Harris Teeter, I told you about a minute ago, one in the Holly Springs Town
Center and one in another shopping complex. So yay, plenty of places to get your Starbucks’ on.
The number nine thing you need to know about Holly Springs, there's a lot of new construction going
on. So Cary is pretty much built out. Holly Springs is well on its way of being built out
and most everything in Holly Springs is to the west, so people are naturally migrating
to Holly Springs. And so there's a lot of new construction going on. If you are looking for
an opportunity to build a brand new house, or build a brand new house from dirt, Holly
Springs may be a good option for you. However, if you're looking more for an established town,
established neighborhoods, although there are some in Holly Springs, that may be something you want
to think about. Do you want to be part of all of the hammering and sawing and painting and nails
and tires and all that fun stuff that goes along with new construction? Something to think about.
The number ten thing you need to know about is interstate 540 is coming to Holly Springs. This
is a wonderful thing. So right now, interstate 540, the outer loop is sort of a big giant U
or a big giant C. There's a piece missing from Knightdale, all the way to,
I guess Holly Springs, Apex. I don't know, somewhere down that way and so they're finishing
that off. It's underway right now. There's no finished date announced, but when it's done,
it's going to be amazing because it will open up a lot of opportunities for people that live down
in the Holly Springs, Apex, Fuquay-Varina area. I had a client today who is moving to the area,
going to have a job at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, and wanted to
know where they could live that was close by and that they could be twenty minutes or so,
twenty-five minutes from Duke University. And so I had to tell them the best place for them to live
is probably like a circle around Duke University, which ends at like Creedmoor Road in Raleigh,
off to Durham, Chapel Hill, all of that circle. But when 540 opens up, it's going to open up a
lot more opportunities for people to live down in the Holly Springs area and zip over to Durham,
Morrisville, all of that area. So know that 540’s a really big deal. It's going to open up a lot of
opportunities for people. We're excited for it to be done. You can check out the department of
transportation map to see what it looks like and check on its progress as it goes along.
The number eleven thing you need to know about is there's a nuclear power plant and the county
dump in Holly Springs. The Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant is owned by Duke Energy.
It is in New Hill, North Carolina, which is just west of Holly Springs. So a lot of people
are concerned, they don't want to live near a nuclear power plant. Please know that this
plant is one of the safest in the country. It had a very, very minor
incident back about ten years ago, didn't cause any shutdowns, no issues at all.
But because of that information, that there's only been that one, it has been considered by the
federal government is one of the top three safest nuclear power plants in the whole country. So
know that it's not three mile island. There's not a big, dangerous issue so far, everything was good
and the residents in general don't seem to worry about it. And so do your research for yourself to
make yourself comfortable, but it's not an issue that people in general are worrying about. Also,
the county dump is now in this area. It's actually between Holly Springs and Apex. And again, a lot
of people are concerned. They don't want to live near a dump. Well, with today's modern technology,
there's not a lot of odors coming out of this dump. It is the
dump again for the entire county. The general consensus among the neighbors
around it is it's not a big deal. They aren’t affected by it, but just know that it's there
and do your own research and see if it's something that's going to bother you.
The twelfth thing you need to know about Holly Springs is
Ting Park. Ting Park is a forty-two acre athletic facility owned by the city. It has
basketball courts, tennis courts, two playgrounds for kids, soccer fields,
on and on and on. And it also has an 1800 seat stadium where the Holly Springs Salamanders play.
The Salamanders are a collegiate summer league team that plays about thirty-five home games,
in the summer at Ting Park. It is a great gathering place for the community. They
have festivals there. It’s really, really cool, definitely worth your time to check out the park
when you are in Holly Springs, exploring to see if it's right for you. Best of all, it’s probably a
three minute drive from Holly Springs Town Center, so you can knock out both things at one time.
You're about eight minutes from downtown from Ting Park. So really, really good location, really good
athletic facilities, definitely something that we recommend you check out.
So there you have it, twelve things about Holly Springs, you need to know. You can subscribe below
if you haven't done. So if you're considering a move either into or out of Holly Springs or really
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