Bluffton SC Real Estate Blog

In just a few weeks, Realtors in Manhattan will release their latest report of the market conditions in The Big Apple.  While many believe the super-high end market will remain strong, there are already signs of weakness scattered throughout the lower priced and trendy areas in and around the villages.  The Meat packing District, one of the hottest spots for younger, [...]

Hampton Lake, the first private lake community in the Hilton Head Island/Bluffton area, announced the release of 11 Vacation Townhomes located next to the community’s award-winning Lakeside Amenity Village .  
The Vacation Townhomes, designed to be lived in or used by owners, visitors and vacationers, will be available in three different floor plans, offering two-and-three-bedroom configurations. With construction [...]

The newest equestrian center in the Bluffton area is Longfield Stables at Palmetto Bluff.  This newest equestrian center is, clearly, the largest and most amenity-packed in the area.  The 173 acre facility will offer 24 hour care service for both Palmetto Bluff owners, as well as any transient visitors who are participating in one of [...]

There will be a Lakeside block party open to the public in Hampton Lake Thursday, May 22nd, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.  Included in the festivities are:

Live entertainment by local band “Target”
Boat rides
Firepit cooked S’mores
A variety of foods and drinks offered at Backwater Bill’s Restaurant, The Tower Bar and the lake front grill.

There will be a [...]

A number of financial experts are stating that the worst is over for the credit crisis, and that we are nearing the shallows of decline in the housing market.  Today, the folks at Yahoo Finance have offered a post about the recent article in the Wall Street Journal, a few comments by John Thain and Henry Blodget as [...]

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development - HUD, for short – is in the process of reforming the Real Estate Settlement Procedures ACT – RESPA.  Since it’s inception in 1974, the goal of RESPA was to protect real estate buyers in a number of aspects during the mortgage process including:

to help consumers become better shoppers for settlement services and
to [...]

Even with two SPAM filters at this site I find that computer geniuses will still find ways to post comments.  Obviously, this SPAM is coming from web site designers offering promises of gaining better page ranks for their clients at unsuspecting owners/writers of high ranking blogs.  In some cases, I find almost impossible to differentiate from a comment left [...]

The HGTV Green Home was finally reveled to the world last night on the HGTV special. If the recent hits to this site are any indication, the home appears to be a huge success. So far this morning, I have had inquiries about the Tradition Hilton Head Development from as far away as [...]

I recently noticed the two signs in front of Rose Hill Plantation announcing the reopening of the golf course this September. This should offer a huge sigh of relief to the homeowners of Rose Hill. For over two years, the courses have been closed and the Texas company which purchased the course from [...]

The Bluffton, SC Real Estate blog has reached the number one page rank on Google, using the keywords Bluffton SC real estate.  I’m proud to say, this is quite an achievement.   In the Web 2.0 era, it has been proved that nearly 80 percent of all home buyers will use the Internet as their first source for information when [...]

The HGTV Green home, part of the Tradition Hilton Head development in Hardeeville, SC, will be open for tours starting the day after the first airing of the special Green Home program on HGTV. On March 23 at 9:00 p.m. the Channel will air the Green Home Special. The tours will begin the [...]

There are often times when it appears that I may ignore this site for a few weeks.  Well, I really don’t ignore it.  I read and respond to any new comments on a daily basis, I check the viewer statistics and reply to any Market Condition sign-ups when they arrive in my e-mail, and, most [...]

2007 may well be remembered as one of the worst years in real estate for the Bluffton and HHI area, statistically, but statistics are rarely the full story.  A great many of the buyers who purchased a home may one day look back on this year as the year they found a great bargain.
The Market Conditions Page of this [...]

Turns out, the home I predicted as the HGTV Green home is actually the Coastal Living Holiday Coastal Cottage! I knew there was something hush hush about this home. I guess the greatest difference between the HGTV Green home and the Coastal Living Holiday Coastal Cottage – besides the environmental aspects – is [...]