The wish list buyers walk into my office with has shifted in the last three or four years, and the shift has been consistent enough that I can predict what a relocating family will want before they finish describing it. Some of the features at the top of buyer wish …

Five years ago, buyers asked me about acreage maybe one out of every twenty conversations. Today it's closer to one out of five. Something has changed about what people want from real estate, and the demand for land in Horry County keeps climbing. I've sold farmland, timber land, residential acreage, …

Loris is the kind of place you only really understand once you've spent a weekend there. The town itself runs along Highway 9, sits about 25 minutes inland from North Myrtle Beach, and has held onto its small-town character better than most of the Grand Strand's outer ring. I've worked …

Cherry Grove sits at the north end of North Myrtle Beach, just before you cross into North Carolina, and it's one of the most distinct micro-markets along the entire Grand Strand. The canal homes, the raised beach houses, the pier, and the marsh-side lots all behave differently than the rest …

The Grand Strand has been a golf market since long before it was a relocation market, and that history shapes how the real estate works today. There are over 90 courses spread between Pawleys Island and Calabash, and many of them anchor neighborhoods that were designed around the fairways. Decades …

The price on the listing is the part buyers see first. The price of owning the home over the next ten years is the part that catches people off guard. I've sat at hundreds of closings along the Grand Strand, and the patterns I see in buyer surprise are consistent …

Whenever the market wobbles — and over thirty years I've watched it wobble more than a few times — waterfront homes hold up better than almost anything else in our inventory. It happened after 2008. It happened after the 2015 floods. It happened through the rate spike of 2022 and …

Aynor doesn't get the marketing attention Conway or Myrtle Beach gets, and the people who live in Aynor like it that way. It's a real small town in the original sense — the kind where the high school football game is the social event of the week, the same families …

Longs has quietly become one of the busiest new construction pockets in our entire market. Drive up Highway 9 or out Highway 905 past Loris on any weekday morning, and you'll see grading crews working three or four subdivisions inside a five-mile stretch. The Longs growth story has been building …

If you've been shopping rural homes in Horry County — Aynor, Loris, Galivants Ferry, the back roads off Highway 905, or the deeper pockets of Longs — odds are good the property runs on septic, not city sewer. I've watched a lot of out-of-state buyers learn this the hard way …