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Another bad day in Buxton
By: Tim-OBX 10/28/2025	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 26010 Experience: Date Posted: 10/28/2025 10:33 AM
With high tide around 1pm today it looks like Buxton is taking another hit. This is our 4th Nor East'r this year. Enough already

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RE: Another bad day in Buxton
By: KHbiker 10/28/2025	Posted By: KHbiker - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/27/2011 Location: KH, NC Total Posts: 1057 Experience: Date Posted: 10/28/2025 3:35 PM
I saw on OBX Voice another 4 houses went in! Wow!

RE: Another bad day in Buxton
By: Tim-OBX 10/28/2025	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 26010 Experience: Date Posted: 10/28/2025 7:36 PM
I saw on OBX Voice another 4 houses went in! Wow! KHbiker One was bought in May 2025.

RE: Another bad day in Buxton
By: oldmember 10/29/2025	Posted By: oldmember - (Send PM) Member Since: 8/23/2023 Location: SNH Total Posts: 88 Experience: Date Posted: 10/29/2025 9:27 AM
OUCH!!!!!

RE: Another bad day in Buxton
By: jfalba 10/29/2025	Posted By: jfalba - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/10/2019 Location: OHIO Total Posts: 1320 Experience: Date Posted: 10/29/2025 2:48 PM
Is there an aerial view of what Buxton beach looks like now?

RE: Another bad day in Buxton
By: Halftime 10/29/2025	Posted By: Halftime - (Send PM) Member Since: 11/22/2006 Location: Avon/Raleigh NC Total Posts: 315 Experience: Date Posted: 10/29/2025 3:06 PM
aerial of Buxton Beach www.facebook.com/reel/116...

RE: Another bad day in Buxton
By: xobx 10/29/2025	Posted By: xobx - (Send PM) Member Since: 2/23/2016 Location: Total Posts: 546 Experience: Date Posted: 10/29/2025 5:42 PM
aerial of Buxton Beach Halftime This is an example of the main reason we keep going back to HI - we won't be able to in the near future of my lifetime. Fell completely in love with the place in the early 90's and now so sad to see it getting washed away. The Atlantic definitely wants to roll over this island.

RE: Another bad day in Buxton
By: johnbt 10/30/2025	Posted By: johnbt - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/5/2019 Location: Richmond VA Total Posts: 923 Experience: Date Posted: 10/30/2025 9:23 AM
Including the one in Rodanthe, "County property records show that nine of the 16 homes were purchased within the past four years, primarily by off-island investors or second-home owners. Their collective purchase price exceeds $5.3 million, averaging roughly $595,000 each. Nearly all are listed as vacation rentals, reflecting a wider trend: most oceanfront homes on this stretch of Buxton’s beach are not year-round residences but short-term rental investments." - from Click to follow link... If the owner takes it down before it falls, "...the cost of privately contracted demo work — often between $25,000 and $40,000 or more — is borne entirely by the owner."

RE: Another bad day in Buxton
By: OceanBlue 10/30/2025	Posted By: OceanBlue - (Send PM) Member Since: 8/21/2010 Location: Total Posts: 2724 Experience: Date Posted: 10/30/2025 12:52 PM
reflecting a wider trend: most oceanfront homes on this stretch of Buxton’s beach are not year-round residences but short-term rental investments. I'm not sure that is a new trend (being rentals now)....HI folks have known for a long time that THE place to live (and mitigate the consequences of living on the water) is mid island (neither OF nor SF). Spending winter in this part of the world is not for the faint of heart...doing it OF is next level "shining".... What did happen is a crazy level of covid buying, especially after last re nourishment project.

RE: Another bad day in Buxton
By: Greg MD 10/30/2025	Posted By: Greg MD - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/10/2014 Location: Swamp Total Posts: 4823 Experience: Date Posted: 10/30/2025 1:39 PM
Last time sand was pumped onto Buxton's beach was July 2022 at a cost of $18M. All gone and then some, in just 3 years.

RE: Another bad day in Buxton
By: Mikec 10/30/2025	Posted By: Mikec - (Send PM) Member Since: 4/11/2014 Location: MD Total Posts: 1822 Experience: Date Posted: 10/30/2025 2:19 PM
I'm not sure that is a new trend (being rentals now)....HI folks have known for a long time that THE place to live (and mitigate the consequences of living on the water) is mid island (neither OF nor SF). Spending winter in this part of the world is not for the faint of heart...doing it OF is next level "shining".... What did happen is a crazy level of covid buying, especially after last re nourishment project. OceanBlue My friends used to own not far from Durant Station condos, and one house near them changed hands twice in roughly three years post Covid. I was lucky to spend time on Hatteras during every month but I never was on it during any snow, I am glad for that.

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