The neighborhood fans out from Charlotte Street and Merrimon Avenue up toward Beaver Lake — a genuine bird sanctuary and one of the few spots in Asheville where you can walk a loop with real quiet and real tree cover, ten minutes from downtown traffic. Grove Park itself, right around the Inn, carries some of the city's grandest early-1900s homes; move further out and the lots get bigger and the architecture more varied, running from Tudor Revival to mid-century ranch.
Because the housing stock skews older, inspection findings here tend to run toward what you'd expect from a home built between 1910 and 1960 — knob-and-tube remnants, older cast iron plumbing, roofs and systems on their second or third owner. None of that is a reason to avoid North Asheville; it's a reason to budget for it going in rather than getting surprised by it during due diligence.
I haven't closed a sale inside the Grove Park core itself yet, but it's the first neighborhood I bring up whenever someone tells me they want their kids to have a real yard without a 30-minute drive to get anywhere.