Quick Answer: Radon risk in the South Carolina Lowcountry is low. Beaufort and Jasper counties are in the EPA’s lowest-risk zone, thanks to sandy soil, a high water table, and homes built on slabs or crawl spaces with no basements. Low is not zero, though, so a radon test during a home inspection is still…
There’s a particular kind of humid that only exists down here. Not the kind that shows up on a thermostat. The kind you feel in a closet that’s been shut for a week, or notice on a window the morning after a thunderstorm rolled through off the May River. Most people who move here from…
Most lists of “questions to ask a realtor” read like a job interview. How long have you been licensed. What’s your sales volume. How many homes have you closed this year. Useful information, all of it. But none of it tells you the one thing that actually predicts whether someone is going to look out…
Most of the buyers and sellers we work with in Sun City aren’t looking for a generalist. They’re managing something specific, a villa that needs the right price, a parent’s estate that needs careful handling, an HOA they don’t fully understand yet, and they want to know upfront whether we’ve actually done that particular thing…
If you’ve spent any time researching active-adult communities online, you’ve probably noticed the listings don’t always agree with each other, or with reality. National directory sites pull community descriptions from databases that aren’t always accurate, and a few Bluffton-area communities have ended up mislabeled in ways that genuinely confuse buyers. We get asked about these…
The questions people actually ask us about Sun City rarely show up in the glossy brochure. They show up after the second or third visit, usually once someone has stopped touring the model homes and started picturing their own golf cart parked out front. They want to know about county lines, fees, age rules, the…
One thing I’ve noticed over the last several years is that Bluffton does not feel quite as slow as people imagine it will when they first move here. People picture golf cart rides into Old Town, evenings on the porch, dinners near the water, and mornings that somehow feel calmer than wherever they came from…
People ask us to name the best 55+ community in Bluffton more often than almost any other question, and the honest answer is that there isn’t one. There’s a best one for a person who wants amenities within golf-cart reach of everything they could need. There’s a best one for someone who wants resort energy…
There’s a certain kind of buyer who falls in love with older homes in Bluffton almost immediately. It usually happens before they even walk through the front door. Sometimes it’s the oak trees. Sometimes it’s the curve of an older neighborhood road that was built before developers started flattening everything into straight lines and perfect…
One of the most common conversations we end up having with relocating buyers has nothing to do with countertops, paint colors, or even mortgage rates. It usually starts a couple weeks before closing when someone suddenly realizes coastal insurance works very differently here than it does where they are moving from. A buyer will call…
Most of my coffee meetings with relocating buyers start the exact same way. Someone opens a map of the South Carolina coast, looks back and forth between the two towns, and finally asks: “So… are we more Beaufort people or Bluffton people?” It’s a fair question because on paper, the two can sound surprisingly similar….
There’s no question that artificial intelligence has made its way into real estate. You see it everywhere now. Listing descriptions written in seconds, property photos enhanced with a click, social media posts generated automatically, and entire marketing campaigns built without much thought behind them. On the surface, it looks efficient. In some ways, it is….