Do You Love Where You Live?
I just love where I live! I’m guessing that you love where you live, but if you don’t, the Low Country is a place that you will fall in love with very quickly. I took this picture with a Blackberry from the roof top at Morgan Creek Grill one afternoon this past week. We were having a nice visit with our friends, the Samuelsons, and enjoying the food at the Grill. It has been very hot for the...
Kiawah Island Golf Resort to host the 2012 PGA Championship
The 2102 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island Golf Resort will mark the first time a major PGA championship will be contested in South Carolina. According to a recent article in USA Today, "The Ocean Course was built on Kiawah Island near Charleston for the 1991 Ryder Cup matches.... The biggest event hosted since then was the 2007 Senior PGA Championship." The PGA Championship in 2012 is a huge...
Home Buying and Baskin-Robbins
Remember Baskin – Robbins? I got sick sampling as many flavors as I could and never bought one scoop. Avoid the stomachache in your search by knowing what you want before you go to market.
Our Agents Excel at Marketing
Congratulations to Barbara Walker who has just one of of the Charleston area's Realtor.com Online Marketing Award for Excellence. And a congratulations to Kristin Walker who has been nominated for the Charleston Marketing Association's Marketer of the Year Award. We're so proud they both represent Dunes Properties!
June 2010 Folly Beach Real Estate Market Report
Folly Beach Real Estate is back in demand! This has been a good year for buying oceanfront and island homes, and people are taking advantage. 8 properties sold in June 2010 bringing the total sold through half of 2010 to 50. Folly Beach sold 59 in all of last year. Is this a a good sign? It depends of if your a buyer or a seller. The prices are still drastically low and have not come back...
Folly Opportunity- Great Lot with a Fixer Upper
We've has just listed this great lot which has a home that needs some work. 601 West Beach Court. We think this property is going to move fast at the super aggressive listing price of $394,900. A primary residence, a 2nd home, an investment rental property? You name it and this prime real estate fits the bill. This oversized corner lot is just steps away from beach access yet secluded away...
Appreciating Charleston
Just one of the many relaxing places in Mt. Pleasant Facebook and Twitter offer insights into what’s important to people RIGHT NOW! After reading a number of posts on both, I started to see a pattern that I hadn’t expected: Lots of us are expressing appreciation for what we have around Charleston, SC. Many posts are about good meals at various local restaurants. There have been a few about the...
A List We’re Happy Charleston Isn’t On
Charleston usually shows up on some great lists that magazines and industries do periodically (best vacation spot, friendliest city, etc). Fortunately when Bloomberg Businessweek surveyed the most expensive cities in the world, Charleston was not on the list. New York was the first American city to make an apperance on the list and it came in at 29th. Based on factors they took into account to...
Folly Beach Foreclosure Property goes fast!
Are you be interested in buying a foreclosure property on Folly Beach? Well you better be ready to jump when they come on the market. This week two properties were listed on Folly Beach in the $300,000 range, one was a foreclosure. They both went under contract in less than one week, the foreclosure was under contract in days. This tells me that there are many buyers paying attention to the...
Charleston From the Water
It was a windy day on the water and perhaps 3 hours was about an hour too much for some of our spaghetti arms but we made it through. There were laughs- fighting against the winds and landing in some reeds and having to be towed out by the tour guide (that was me- he had a little hook attached to his boat he latched onto mine and kayaked me out from under a pier). No one fell out of their...