Bluffton SC Real Estate Blog

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 [...]

This is supposed to be the slow time of year in real estate?  I must have missed that memo.  There is a lot going on in the Bluffton and Hilton Head Island area, in regards to real estate and new developments.
Besides my busy schedule, the greatest activity in Bluffton is the potential developer annexation of nearly 100 more acres into [...]

A 1031 Tax Exchange, or Like Kind Exchange, is basically selling one investment property for another of equal or greater value to defer the payment of Capital Gains Tax.
The exchange is only available for specific types of properties and requires special fund handing by an intermediary.  Due to the complexity of a 1031, I ask [...]

A local developer, wishing to build 10 structures on .44 acres, was denied permission for the project due to a desire to include a new street in the Old Town area.  The commissioners also declared the buildings were too repetitive in nature.
While the developer has had successful history with other projects in Old Town, [...]

According to the Parade Magazine, the Baby Boomers are taking the plunge!

For many people, owning a second home is part of the American Dream.  The National Association of Realtors stated that 36% of residential properties sold last year were second homes.

The majority of these fun loving buyers are the baby boomers.  Who are taking equity [...]

As noted in my last post, I have neglected my bloggin’ duties, horribly, over the past two weeks. Shame on me, I know. As a gesture of good faith, (as I would do daily in the past) I made my rounds to all of my favorite RE Blog people and great sites across [...]

Today was the grand opening of the new Piggly Wiggly on the Bluffton Parkway.  Of course, I, along with half of Bluffton, made their way to check out the newest area selection of produce, meats, frozen foods, baked goods and libations.  The element of humor has to be acknowledged in that the opening of a Southern grocery store [...]

As new forms of communication and digital processing progresses so quickly now-a-days it is hard to keep up with new technology.  So much seems to come and go.  But technology such as this surface computer could easily find its way into the real estate industry.
I’ll be honest, most new technology just seems like more work to me.  Just as [...]

A few weeks back I was interviewed by one of the local papers on the subject of blogging and how blogs are used by real estate professionals.  Funny enough, I had nearly completely forgotten about the article until yesterday.  While spending time with our family at the neighborhood pool, a few friends commented on the great article in today’s paper.  [...]

An ongoing debate between a local developer, the Bluffton Planning Commission and the Bluffton Town Council ended abruptly yesterday as the developer retracted his application for a low income apartment complex on Buck Island Rd.  
The Bluffton Planning Commission first rejected the proposal from Greenway Development, LLC, but soon after the Planning Commision’s decision was then overturned by the Bluffton Town Council.  [...]

Today, area motorists will be able to travel from Burnt Church Rd. to SC 170 on the completed section of the Bluffton Parkway.  The newest, and most awaited, phase of the Bluffton Parkway serves to answer concerns for safety as well as convenience. 
The level of excitement over a local road project may be unprecedented, but [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]