Downtown Raleigh and its districts

Downtown is the grid laid out for the new capital in 1792, with the State Capitol on Union Square at its center and state government filling the blocks north and east of it. Fayetteville Street runs south from the Capitol to the performing arts center and is the civic spine; Glenwood South, to the northwest, is the restaurant and bar strip; and the Warehouse District, to the west, is rail-side industrial blocks turned into offices and apartments around Raleigh Union Station. 3 guides are listed below.

Two things set buying here apart. The first is the levy: inside the district the bill carries a further 6.8 cents per $100 of assessed value, which pays for the Downtown Raleigh Alliance's services and comes to about $290 a year on a $430,000 condominium. The second is that almost nothing is a house, so the questions are the association's budget and reserve, the age of the building and what its declaration allows, rentals and pets included, rather than the roof and the lot. Anything near the bars on Glenwood Avenue also comes with their noise, which is worth hearing on a Friday night before an offer.