Conway has become one of the more realistic first-time buyer markets in the entire Grand Strand region. Prices are still meaningfully lower than Carolina Forest or coastal Myrtle Beach pockets, USDA rural development financing works on some addresses, and the inventory mix includes real starter homes at price points where …

Drive Cherry Grove, Ocean Drive, Garden City, or any of the immediate beach blocks along the Grand Strand and you'll see them everywhere — homes built on tall pilings with parking and storage underneath, the living space starting 10 to 15 feet above ground level. Raised beach homes have …

When a family calls me about Aynor real estate, the school question comes up before we even talk about specific homes. And it should — Aynor's school identity is a big part of why buyers are willing to make the drive out here from Conway or Myrtle Beach. But …

Every week I sit across the table from buyers who have never lived in South Carolina and are seriously considering making it home. They arrive with good research on the beaches and the golf, but they always have gaps in the practical knowledge that shapes daily life once you actually …

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 …

The remote work shift has changed what buyers want out of a home, and Conway has quietly become one of the better answers in the Southeast for people who can work from anywhere. I've watched this pattern build for the last four or five years, and the tempo has …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …