Northside Homes for Sale

Originally settled in the 1800s by enslaved African Americans who helped build the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s campus, Northside has long been an enclave of Black culture and life in Chapel Hill. The neighborhood’s churches and rec center served as social hubs for the town’s Black population when Jim Crow laws barred them from many community spaces. Northside also played a prominent role during the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Martin Luther King, Jr. once visited the neighborhood’s rec center, and young neighborhood residents organized the first sit-in in Chapel Hill. Many of the neighborhood’s current residents date their family history in the area back several generations.  Located less than a mile from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s main campus, developers and landlords have long set their sights on Northside as a promising neighborhood for student housing, threatening to push out long-time residents. “The nature of it has changed because it was so perfectly located close to town and campus,” says Gary Saleeby, Realtor at Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston and Chapel Hill resident for 50 years. However, organizations like