NC’s most expensive old home listing includes pool, tennis court & theater on 161 acres
The most expensive old home listing in North Carolina right now includes a main house, a pool house and two guest cottages on a 161-acre property near Brevard.
That’s according to The Old House Life, a website that promotes the sale and conservation of historic homes, which recently featured the home on its site and social media pages. As of publication, The Old House Life’s Instagram post highlighting the property had more than 1,800 likes, and its Facebook post had nearly 160 comments.
Transylvania County’s Blue Fish Farm, as it’s called, can be yours for $19.9 million.
“I would argue it’s one of the most spectacular estates in the Southeast, with the combination of land, over a mile of river frontage on the French Broad,” Alec Cantley, a global real estate adviser for Premier Sotheby’s International Realty, told The News & Observer in a phone interview. “You’ve got a wide array of views there, both long range and some near-range mountain views that are really, really nice.”
As of publication, there’s at least one other North Carolina home on the market that is more expensive — a $50 million estate in Highlands, according to Zillow — but it was built in 2000.
Details on the ‘mountain-modern residence’
Located at 3903 Island Ford Road, the main house on the property was built in 1959, but it and the guest cottages were renovated in 2019 by Platt, a Brevard-based architecture firm that worked on the 2006 HGTV Dream Home and was named by Forbes one of America’s top 200 residential architects late last year. The pool house was also built in 2019.
The main house, two cottages and 2,590-square-foot pool house together include 12,713 square feet of living space, Cantley said. Ten bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and five half-bathrooms are spread across the living spaces, which are within walking distance of each other.
“The current owners have added some great improvements,” Cantley said. “There’s a state-of-the-art greenhouse that’s never been used. But it’s really a culmination of all the parts there.”
This story was originally published February 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM with the headline "NC’s most expensive old home listing includes pool, tennis court & theater on 161 acres."
