VA and Military Buyers in Winston-Salem, NC

This page is general information, not legal, tax, or lending advice. VA loan rules and tax rules change, and only the VA, your lender, 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.

The Winston-Salem VA Regional Benefit Office is at 251 North Main Street. The VA lists it as helping veterans with disability compensation, education, life insurance, pensions, and home loans, open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is a useful place for questions about your Certificate of Eligibility or your benefits. For the property tax form below, the NC Department of Military and Veterans Affairs points you to a county veterans service office for certification.

Health care for this part of the Triad runs through the VA's Salisbury system, which lists a clinic at 1695 Kernersville Medical Parkway in Kernersville and its medical center at 1601 Brenner Avenue in Salisbury. If you want to stay close to one of them, say so on our first call and I will build the search around it.

North Carolina law excludes the first $45,000 of a home's appraised value from property tax for a veteran with a service-connected, permanent, and total disability, or one who has received specially adapted housing benefits, and an unremarried surviving spouse can qualify. The home has to be your permanent residence.

In Forsyth, the application is Form AV-9, filed with Forsyth County Tax Administration at 201 North Chestnut Street (mail goes to P.O. Box 757, Winston-Salem 27102), open 8 to 5 on weekdays. The county's tax relief page puts the deadline at June 1 and says a veteran with a 100 percent total and permanent service-connected disability needs certification from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which is what Form NCDVA-9 is for. Ask the tax office which tax year your first application covers, based on when you close.

At Forsyth County's 2026 total of 1.143 per $100 of value in Winston-Salem, that exclusion is worth about $514 a year, and about $360 in Clemmons at 0.7991. I confirm the district on every address.

We sign a written buyer agreement before touring, as the National Association of REALTORS has required of MLS participants since August 17, 2024. A VA-approved appraiser checks value and the VA's minimum property requirements, and I still recommend a full inspection, because the inspector works for you. I walk you through the North Carolina contract line by line and keep the inspection, the appraisal, and the closing attorney on schedule. Still serving and on orders? See VA and military buyers in Fayetteville for PCS timing. Read buying a home in Winston-Salem and my Winston-Salem guide, then call me.