Charleston Real Estate Blog

Greg Swann at the BloodhoundBlog introduces flinch, a new buyer strategy (game) that takes the strategy sellers used during the housing boom and applies it to today's buyers market. The Charleston South Carolina real estate market has plenty of motivated sellers and excessive inventory available so if you are looking for a ...

The Charleston South Carolina real estate market has a lot of inventory and fewer buyers than before. This is not news. For about a year, this has been the market except that there is even more inventory and fewer buyers. Pricing your home for sale from the start is important but even more important is handling the negotiation with flexibility. ...

I found an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal Online regarding signs of a housing market turnaround. While the article certainly points out many of the problems facing the housing industry today, I noticed that the headline wasn’t the “doom and gloom” so prevalent in the media today. Perhaps it is the influence of ...

Introducing a new feature, Ask the Agent. I get emails from time to time with questions and while I answer directly, I thought a good idea might be to incorporate them into the blog format when appropriate. I can't think of a better question than the one on the minds of most people who are watching and reading the bad news on the housing ...

The buyer in today's Charleston South Carolina real estate market is certainly in a sweet spot. There are so many nice choices offered at very attractive prices that the biggest problem the buyer faces is choosing the perfect home. In new construction especially, the site agents for the builders are as accomodating as I have seen in my real ...

It's that time again, let's take a look at the Charleston market trends by first presenting and then analyzing the April statistics for Charleston South Carolina real estate. I'll preface the results with these 6 words, no change, more of the same. Condos and TownhomesDate        ...

From the front page of today's Charleston Post and Courier, the headline reads: For Sale signs on every corner We enjoyed the boom; now we have to deal with the slump. The real estate market is in its biggest decline since 1989. Here's how it affects you.  The article includes some perspectives from sellers, lenders, renters, buyers ...

The final numbers for 2006 are in and first I'll give you the statistics, then an analysis of the market trends in Charleston real estate. A quick preview, the 4th quarter was quite dismal, unit sales off 30% and available inventory up 67%.Month     ...

The November sales numbers are now available and they aren't pretty. It makes 2 consecutive months with big drops in unit sales and greatly increasing inventory. I'll post the charts first and make some comments after.Month     ...