Charleston Real Estate Blog

The Charleston MLS just changed vendors who handle showing appointments and I attended an orientation seminar yesterday. The company, ShowingTime, is headquartered in Chicago (which just happens to be my hometown) and the 3 representatives who visited Charleston were simply thrilled with not only our beautiful and historic city but our weather ...

One of the most often requested bits of information about a home for sale in Charleston is what the property taxes are. And more often than not if someone is considering relocating to Charleston from a state that has high property taxes, they are pleasantly surprised (if not amazed) to find out how surprisingly low South Carolina property taxes ...

Well, Mother Nature simply must be playing another trick on the Northeast this Halloween weekend with not just a little snow but quite a storm. That's no treat. Just about every client I have who was considering relocation to Charleston was concerned about hurricanes and rightfully so. The good news is that hurricanes are not an everyday ...

by readers of Conde Nast Traveler. And it's been the big buzz around Charleston and the Charleston hospitality industry for the past day. As an example, my wife who is in the hospitality industry came home last night and the first words out of her mouth were, "Charleston's number 1". Charleston debuted in the Conde Nast ...

Start with the $10 million FedEx Cup won yesterday by South Carolina's own Bill Haas. Also in the field was my favorite hipster, Dustin Johnson who has been a regular winner on the PGA Tour. Then there is Lucas Glover who won the US Open a couple of years ago and now sports his famous "Fear the Beard". South Carolina is indeed very ...

It's ironic that Hurricane Irene is heading to the Northeast since one of the first questions that I get from potential buyers considering relocation to Charleston (and many from the Northeast) has to do with hurricanes. After all, Charleston is rather famous for Hugo. And let me tell you, earlier this week when Charleston was in the ...

New home sales are down again and actually, that's a good thing because the last thing needed in today's housing market is more inventory. But a lot of home buyers prefer to buy new homes rather than preowned homes and it seems especially so for many people who are retiring and relocating to Charleston. And from what I've seen, ...

Did you ever wonder where the phrase dog days of summer came from. Wikipedia has the answer to why the hottest most sultry days of summer are called dog days. And in Charleston, we usually have a very hot early summer and a very hot and humid later summer. We're just about ready for our dog days as hurricane season ramps up and it will be ...

Trader Joe's has a lot of fans from around the country and finally we're getting a local store in Mount Pleasant at the site of the old Hungryneck Antique Mall right around the corner from Whole Foods. Many clients I've worked with from around the country who have relocated to Charleston asked me where our Trader Joe's was ...

Just about everyone who is considering relocation to Charleston asks me what the property taxes in South Carolina are and thankfully, I am always able to provide them with very good news, that property taxes are very low especially compared to those paid in the Northeast. While property taxes vary by county and by location within each ...