Little River has quietly become one of the more interesting stories on the Grand Strand. The population has climbed, new construction has picked up, restaurant options have multiplied, and the buyer inquiries I take about Little River have shifted from occasional to routine. What used to be a niche fishing …

Myrtle Beach weather makes outdoor living usable roughly nine months a year, and the homes that get the outdoor space right sell faster and hold their value better than homes with the same square footage inside but nothing outside. After watching buyers respond to Grand Strand properties for more than …

Buyers ask me this question more than almost any other. Should I wait until fall? Is winter really a buyer's market here? Do I get a better deal in July when the tourists are here? After watching the Grand Strand market through more than three decades of seasonal cycles, I …

Longs has never been the loudest option on the Grand Strand retirement map. Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach get the marketing attention. Pawleys and Georgetown pull the higher-end retiree buyers. But over the last five years, I've watched a real, steady wave of retirees quietly land in Longs, and …

The Intracoastal Waterway threads through the heart of our market — from Little River in the north down through North Myrtle Beach, past Myrtle Beach itself, and on toward Murrells Inlet and Georgetown. The waterway isn't just scenery. It's a working navigable channel, a wildlife corridor, and one of the …

Retirees have been coming to Myrtle Beach for decades, and the reasons haven't fundamentally changed — the weather, the ocean, the cost of living compared to the Northeast and Midwest, the tax structure. What has changed is that the retirees moving here today are more discerning about which specific pocket …

North Myrtle Beach attracts a specific kind of buyer — somebody who wants to live near the beach but doesn't want the resort intensity of Myrtle Beach proper. After three decades of selling here, I've watched the full-time resident population in North Myrtle Beach grow steadily, and the buyers I …

If you'd told me five years ago that Longs would become the go-to pocket for buyers wanting real privacy and acreage, I'd have agreed but with a caveat — the demand wouldn't be this strong. What's happened is that buyers who want more land than a Carolina Forest lot offers …

I've been talking to real estate investors in this market for over three decades, and the Myrtle Beach pitch hasn't softened — it's actually gotten stronger. The investors who walked into my office five years ago were mostly local. The investors walking in today are coming from New York, Toronto, …

Myrtle Beach has a reputation as a tourist town, and that's part of why a lot of relocating families assume it can't work as a place to actually raise kids. After three decades of selling here, I can tell you the reality is more nuanced. The right pockets of Myrtle …