The Inn at Palmetto Bluff was named the top resort in the United States and Canada in Travel + Leisure Magazine.  The Inn also received the honor of the #14 ranking in the world.  The Inn at Palmetto Bluff features cottages, suites and village homes, an 18-hole golf course, waterfront restaurant, sports facility and spa.  [...]

I was recently talking to a seller and he said that he did not want to give his house away.  I told him if he was to give it away who would you give it to?  Would you give it to your church or your school?  He then said he was not interested in giving [...]

Last night Jane and I were putting up corn I had picked at my farm; it is kind of a southern thing to “put up corn”.  Jane and I both grew up doing this.  My job was to watch the corn on the cob in the hot water and then I took it over and [...]

It amazes me how consumer confidence plays a large part in resort real estate sales. We saw an uptick in consumer confidence during April and May and saw an increase in villa sales as it relates to 2008 versus 2009.  In May of 2009 we had 52 villas sell and in May of 2008 we [...]

Good news!  We had 64 homes sell in June of 2009 compared to 46 home sales in 2008. For the 2nd quarter, Hilton Head Island home sales were 201 in 2009 versus 157 in 2008.  Part of the job of a Realtor is trying to give people advice on when sales are bottoming out.  This [...]

In the latest issue of Health Magazine, a panel of health and travel experts set out to find the healthiest and beach and lake towns in the United States.  Hilton Head Island proudly rounded out the top five out when looking at several criteria including air and water quality, number of parks and costs of [...]

The Hilton Head Multiple Listing Service has recently added an application which allows people who speak foreign languages to search for property in our area.  Local real estate listings are now available in six languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.  Click here for more information on this newly added feature to Hilton Head [...]

As someone who has been in the real estate business on Hilton Head for the past 29 years I have to ask myself this question daily. Markets are ever changing. We have to ask our self, “Are we adjusting with the market?” The example I think about is the stock market. To think that you [...]

As some of you know, the United States Congress passed by a vote of 219 to 212 the recent cap-n-trade bill. Nobody really knows exactly what is in the bill yet because last Friday morning when they voted on it 300 pages were added to the bill.  Very few of the Congressmen took time to [...]

I received an email yesterday from a client that said that real estate prices are down 17.1% nationally for the last year.  Even though I appreciate his sending me that information, I took it with a grain of salt.  I really don’t care what happens in Omaha, Shreveport, Phoenix or Seattle because those markets really [...]