Raleigh North Carolina real estate is booming, with new residents moving from all over the country and the world every day. If you're looking for Raleigh NC real estate, you'll find a great selection of neighborhoods and homes sure to suit your needs. Named for Sir Walter Raleigh, North Carolina’s capital city has the distinction among the fifty state capitals as having been totally planned. Prior to its being built in 1792, the city was laid out in a square with one-acre parks at each corner. The State House was placed in the center of the square.

The first new inhabitants were government officials and their families. These first residents took great pride in their new capital, which was reflected in their homes and gardens as well as in their government buildings.

As the city has grown, the downtown area, with its surrounding residential neighborhoods, parks and greenways, has been maintained as originally planned. In 1975 Raleigh was named the first Green Survival City in the United States.

Today Raleigh is a city with a population of more than 245,000. Its growth parallels that of the Research Triangle Park, a research park which is the home to corporations and high-tech industries from around the world. This kind of presence has provided us with diverse cultural and regional influences. As a result, Raleigh has become a city offering the best of worlds — restaurants, cosmopolitan shops, educational, cultural and recreational activities as well as the slower-paced traditional small-town southern hospitality and charm.