At first glance, Charleston might seem like a friendlier market for first-time buyers than it was a year ago. Mortgage rates have stabilized, inventory is up slightly from pandemic lows, and sellers are more open to negotiation. Yet the reality is quite different from appearances. Entry-level homes are lingering, while luxury properties — often priced ...
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Charleston’s coastal real estate market is exposing buyers to thousands of dollars in unnecessary insurance costs due to a gap in local risk knowledge, according to a longtime specialist who says national insurance providers routinely overcharge by relying on broad risk assumptions rather than property-level details. Lisa Patterson, a Realtor and historic home specialist with ...
South Carolina is at the center of the Southeast’s ongoing population boom, attracting buyers from across the country with its lower taxes, strong schools, and recreational amenities. The Columbia-Lexington area highlights this trend, where luxury homes are selling as quickly as entry-level properties, defying the national slowdown in high-end real estate. Wendell Arsi, founder of ...
Pawleys Island and Murrells Inlet sit just a few miles apart on the South Carolina coast, but buyers and sellers treating them as interchangeable in mid-2026 are working from the wrong map. The inventory picture, the pace of sales, and the type of buyer each community attracts have diverged sharply enough that strategy in one ...
Along South Carolina’s coast, between the bustle of Myrtle Beach and the prestige of Charleston, sits a stretch of coastline that has quietly been attracting a growing number of buyers looking for something different. Pawleys Island, one of the oldest seaside resorts in the country, has long prided itself on being, as locals say, “arrogantly ...
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The land investment space has long been dominated by two extremes: speculative holds on raw acreage and full-scale horizontal development with entitlements, infrastructure, and vertical construction. Between those poles sits a less visible model, buying large rural tracts, subdividing them under existing by-right zoning provisions, and selling smaller parcels to retail buyers who want to ...
Buying a single-family rental in a fast-growing Sun Belt city usually starts with job growth, population trends, and neighborhood quality. What many investors skip entirely is the one factor that can erase all of those advantages: how many new apartments are being built nearby. The argument sounds counterintuitive. You are buying a house, not a ...
The rental market in Upstate South Carolina has been telling a more complicated story than regional growth headlines suggest. While Greenville consistently ranks among the fastest-growing cities in the country, the day-to-day realities of managing rental properties across the region reveal competing pressures: rising rents alongside rising vacancies, an influx of first-time landlords, and tenants ...
It’s not a simple buyer’s or seller’s market right now. Homes priced at or below market value are drawing multiple offers. Homes priced above it are sitting for 90 days or more. It’s both, depending on the house. And knowing the difference could save you tens of thousands of dollars. Aubree Lewis, team leader of ...
Greenville, South Carolina, has earned a reputation as one of the more attractive relocation destinations in the country, consistently appearing on national lists of top places to live and retire. But as the market matures and interest rates hold steady, the reality for buyers, sellers, and investors is more complex than the headline rankings suggest. ...
As residential markets across the Southeast cool in 2026, one small coastal community in South Carolina is posting sharply different results. Pawleys Island, situated between Myrtle Beach and Charleston, is seeing a year-over-year appreciation of 15.6%, a figure that stands in sharp contrast to broader regional softness. The reasons lie in the area’s physical constraints, ...
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Spokane’s residential market has settled into a pattern that rewards discipline and punishes nostalgia. Sellers who list based on what they remember from a few years ago – when homes drew multiple offers within days – are finding that the market has moved on without them, according to Kim Hagel-Barkley of The Barkley Group in ...
The gap between Houston’s residential market and its coastal neighbor shows what happens when short-term rental speculation meets a correction. Harris County, Texas, currently has roughly six months of housing inventory – enough to classify it as a balanced-to-soft market where sellers need to price carefully and present homes in strong condition. But the sharper ...
The U.S. rental market built aggressively during the pandemic era, particularly in Sunbelt cities like Nashville, Austin, and Dallas. Now much of that new inventory, especially high-end apartments, is sitting partially empty, competing for renters whose budgets have tightened considerably since construction began. The disconnect is straightforward: developers built expensive Class A apartments in markets ...
In most American markets, holding a property for ten or twelve years builds a cushion of equity. In Manhattan, that assumption no longer holds across large segments of the market, according to Nikolay Afanasyev, Founder & CEO of CITY SPHERE Property Group, a boutique brokerage covering Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Rising building carrying costs, ...
For buyers waiting on the largest purchase of their lives, the appraisal process is one of the last black boxes in a home purchase. Turnaround time isn’t a single number; it’s the sum of scheduling, inspection, report production, quality review, and any revision cycles that follow, and thin appraiser panels and uncontrolled revision cycles are ...
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