VA and Military Buyers in Brunswick County, NC

This page is general information, not legal, tax, insurance, or lending advice. VA loan rules and insurance requirements change, and only the VA, your lender, your insurance agent, and the county tax office can decide what applies to you. I am a real estate professional, and my part is the search, the contract, and keeping your timeline on track.

Brunswick County Veterans Services is at 10 Referendum Drive, Building F, in Bolivia, 910-253-2233, open weekdays from 8:30 to 5. The county says applicants must be Brunswick County residents and should call to schedule an appointment with a service officer. Its directory covers disability benefits, medical benefits, education, and the state property tax exclusion below.

Brunswick routes the exclusion through that office: the county's state benefits page says to call 910-253-2233 to apply and, if you have not been to that office before, to bring VA documentation dated within the past year that shows your disability and the effective date of the permanent and total rating, or the grant of DIC. The county's Tax Office itself is at 30 Government Center Drive NE in Bolivia, open 8:30 to 5 on weekdays.

Brunswick County's tax relief page lists the Disabled Veteran Homestead Exclusion: up to the first $45,000 of the appraised value of a permanent residence, for a veteran with a total and permanent service-connected disability or one who received specially adapted housing benefits, with no age or income limit, and for certain unremarried surviving spouses. Take Form NCDVA-9 to a veterans service office for certification, then file it with Form AV-9 at the county tax office by June 1 of the tax year. At the 2026 totals, that exclusion is worth about $154 a year outside any town at 0.342 per $100, $266 in Leland at 0.592, and $293 in Southport at 0.652. North Carolina also lets you deduct military retirement pay on your state return if you served at least 20 years or were medically retired under 10 U.S.C. Chapter 61.

The rules and figures above come from these sources, checked in October 2026. VA fees, insurance rules, and rates change, so your lender, insurance agent, and the tax office have the final word.

• Brunswick County Veterans Services
• Brunswick County, property tax relief programs
• Brunswick County, tax rates
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VA-backed purchase loans
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VA home loan limits and entitlement
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, funding fee and closing costs
• N.C. G.S. 105-277.1C, disabled veteran homestead exclusion
• NC Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, veterans property tax relief
• NC Department of Revenue, military retirement
• FEMA, flood risk and lending requirements
• National Association of REALTORS, settlement FAQs, practice changes effective August 17, 2024
• Brunswick County, state benefits (property tax exclusion)