Bluffton SC Real Estate

The new Superintendent – Dr. Valerie Truesdale will begin her tenure at Beaufort County starting tomorrow, June 1st.  Dr. Truesdale was previously the Superintendent for Oconee County Schools, also in South Carolina.  The improvements made while Dr. Truesdale was with Oconee County are well documented, and the similarities between the two school districts were a [...]

A short while ago on the Active Rain site Maureen McCabe wrote a post asking other agents what level of involvement they have with the “back end” of their blog.  In other words; how much an agent is involved with the technical aspect of their sites and how much attention they pay to site meters and statistics. 

The [...]

Daufuskie Island is a wonderful world of its own.  Accessible only by ferry, Daufuskie is situated between the southern most tip of Hilton Head Island and the river entrance to Savannah, GA. 
The factors that influence whether Daufuskie is the place where you would consider calling home are similar to those involved in making a sound [...]

In the process of putting together a new page for this site, offering information on one of the newest developments in the area, I came across an interesting image.  First, let me say I think this is a great new development even though it will end up being nearly six times the size of Old Town Bluffton when completed.  Each of [...]

Tabby, a type of concrete made from burning oyster shells to extract the lime, was the earliest form of hard surface building material in Beaufort County.  In fact, Beaufort County was the heart of tabby production on the east coast.  St. Augustine FL was the only other area known to utilize this laborious process to construct [...]

Belfair was established in 1811 when William Telfair of Savannah married Betsey Bellinger. The Bellinger and Telfair names were united to name their new plantation Belfair. The property had changed hands a few times over the next century, but had remained a working plantation throughout the years. Now a luxurious 1,100 acre private golf community [...]

The Lowcountry Community Development Corporation is offering classes for first-time homebuyer education June 16 and 23, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Burton Wells Recreation Center in Burton.
The class is structured for first-time home buyers  who meet income requirements, and will offer a certificate which may qualify those who complete the 12 hour [...]

The two greatest factors affecting the current home prices in Bluffton are the number of homes on the market and the number of buyers there are for those homes.  Any real estate market is hyper-local and your home’s value is in direct relationship to the other recent sales within your immediate area.  As the number of available homes [...]

Invest five dollars a day at 8% interest over 42 years and, presto, you’re a millionaire.  That’s it.  Easy enough and, quite frankly, a pretty solid plan compared to most investment options available today.
I recently read an article in The New York Times about a Wall Street stock broker who claimed it makes more sense to [...]

The intention of this post is only clear if you click on the links.  I’ll let them speak for them self.
As Bluffton gains national exposure for its low key way of life and natural, awe-inspiring views, area artists are also basking in the limelight.  Among the long time, locally known potters and painters of the area are a few broad thinkers [...]

I’ll admit, the topic of Web 2.0 maybe should have been one of my first posts.  The BlufftonSCrealestateblog was the first of its kind in my area and it possibly could have used the same sort of explanation for readers that I offer to the other agents in my area.  With the saturation of over 2000 [...]

First, let me say this is one issue most real estate agents wish to brush under the rug when the topic arises.  However, there is simply no denying the fact that there needs to be improvement within the local area’s public school system.  The two issues of the greatest concern for the Bluffton area schools are the relatively low PACT test scores [...]

A fellow area agent passed on this article featured in The New York Times about our neighboring Jasper County.  There is not much more I could say which the article has not already touched on.  However, the one subject the article did not mention is that Beaufort and Jasper county officials are working together on a number of [...]

To say there is a lot going on for the Beaufort County School Board would be an understatement.  A new Superintendent was hired this past month, the preliminary sketches for three new schools (two in Bluffton) have been reviewed and PACT testing will begin in a few days.  Because there is so much happening within [...]

A number of blogs have posts written by more than one contributor.  The Bloodhound Blog is likely the most well known for its long list of contributing writers.  Typically, the contributors are professionals somehow entwined within the real estate industry as mortgage brokers, appraisers, inspectors or investors.  I thought I would try something different.  This may [...]