The rental market in the Wilmington area is cooling – but that doesn’t mean rentals are affordable to most residents.

WILMINGTON — Dover and Wilmington are being advised by a committee to explore the potential of creating a registry of short-term rentals and require such units to follow state fire safety protocol by ...

A bill that passed the state House last week with little debate or attention could keep Wilmington and other cities from regulating short-term rentals like those on Airbnb and VRBO. House Bill 829 ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) - Mayor Bill Saffo says it’s the most controversial issue the Wilmington City Council has dealt with while he has served. Short term rentals, and the debate over whether or not ...

Many North Country races had few contenders; there were plenty of mayor and supervisor positions with just one candidate. But in the town of Wilmington, which has less than 800 year round residents, ...

SOUTHPORT, N.C. (WECT) - Vacation rentals, short-term rentals, homestays, and whole-home rentals; they go by different names but there’s one thing that stays the same: their existence and popularity ...

Wilmington officials say in recent months they've received complaints from residents about problems at short-term rental units. Council members Bregetta Fields and Nathan Field have proposed an ...

Build-to-rent communities, professionally managed developments of single-family homes or townhomes, are on the rise in Wilmington and statewide. The increase in demand for these communities is driven ...