Smithfield isn't a market we cover — it's where 3CK Investments lives. Our office is here, our completed project at 302 Pine Street is here, and the courthouse where every Johnston County deed is recorded is a few blocks away. If you own land in Smithfield, you can sell it to a buyer you could walk in on.
Get My Free Cash Offer →3CK Investments — the land company that's actually from here. We buy vacant lots and acreage in Smithfield and the rest of Johnston County directly from owners, for cash, with no agent and no fees. Because we're local, an offer on Smithfield land isn't desk research alone: we can drive past your parcel the same day, and usually do. Written offer within 24 hours, closing with a local attorney in 30 days or less.
Smithfield has been the seat of Johnston County since 1771, laid out along the Neuse River at what was once Smith's ferry crossing. Today it's best known for the I-95 exit with Carolina Premium Outlets' eighty-plus stores, and to film buffs as the resting place of Ava Gardner, the county's own screen legend. To us it's more practical than that: it's where land selling in this county actually happens.
Every Johnston County deed, plat and lien is recorded at the courthouse here. When something odd turns up in your parcel's chain of title, we resolve it at the counter, not by mail.
Exit 95 puts Smithfield a day's drive from most of the East Coast, and the US-70 upgrade to Interstate 42 runs right past town — part of why county land values keep firming.
Most "we buy land" letters come from another state. We're the version you can sit across a table from — and sellers who want to close in person, do.
The project at 302 Pine Street began as a Smithfield lot and finished as the home in the photograph above — covered porch, attached garage, sold. See it on our Listed Properties page. It's one project, and we'd rather show you one real address here than a map of pins we can't back up. The rest of our county record — six projects across four towns — is on the Johnston County page.
Because Smithfield is home, we work both sides of the same street here: we buy lots and acreage from owners, and we sell parcels we own — sometimes with a land-and-home package behind them, since we're also a licensed North Carolina manufactured home dealer and setup contractor. If you're a Smithfield owner wondering who'd ever want your odd-shaped lot: quite possibly the people who'd build on it themselves.
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Yes — that's the point of being local. Plenty of Smithfield and Johnston County sellers want to look the buyer in the eye before signing anything, and we think that instinct is right. Reach out through the contact page or call, and we'll set a time. The offer itself is still written, so you take it away and think about it — no one signs anything at a first meeting.
We buy vacant land, and the parcel needs to be vacant at closing — so structures have to be hauled off before we close. What we can do locally is talk through what removal actually costs here and factor the timing honestly into the contract, rather than leaving you to guess. If a house in good condition is the main value, we'll say so and point you to a realtor instead.
Check us the way we'd check a parcel: look up 3CK Investments, LLC in the North Carolina Secretary of State's registry, read the about page to see who you're dealing with, and note that our closings run through independent local attorneys — your deed and money never sit with us directly. A company based at the county seat is straightforward to verify, and we'd rather you did.
Own land in another Johnston County town? See Clayton, Princeton or the full county page. Anywhere else in the state, start at Areas We Serve.
Written cash offer within 24 hours — from an office you could drive past on the way to the courthouse.