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 pocket …

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 picked …

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 buyers I …

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 New York, Toronto, …

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 of Myrtle …

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, residential acreage, …

First-time buyers shopping the Grand Strand walk in with the same questions every time, and most of the questions are the right ones. The trouble is the answers are different on the coast than they would be in an inland market. The homes are different. The insurance is different. The …

The Florida-to-Carolinas migration is a real pattern in our market, and it's been picking up for years. Every month I sit down with at least one buyer who looked at Florida first, did the math, and decided to point their search at the Grand Strand instead. They aren't anti-Florida. They've …

Loris is the kind of place you only really understand once you've spent a weekend there. The town itself runs along Highway 9, sits about 25 minutes inland from North Myrtle Beach, and has held onto its small-town character better than most of the Grand Strand's outer ring. I've worked …