With the sale of every Hilton Head Property, a quarter of one percent transfer fee is paid by the purchaser(typically). This transfer is collected for Beaufort county and paid to the town.  The town of Hilton Head has purchased over 1,170 acres with it and have reduced the potential of 4.37 million square feet of commercial development, 1,365 motel rooms and 4,210 residential and timeshare units on the Island.  As a buyer you will benefit with more open green spaces, more parks and less development, the very reasons why you are buying in the first place. Read the rest of this entry

If you own a home or villa on Hilton Head Island and want to have a warranty on your appliances, CHAMP, a Palmetto Electric Cooperative program will relieve you of expensive repair bills and delays in getting service. Offered by our local electric coop, the basic package covers your fridge, washer, dryer, range and water heater for only $10.95 per month and a $10 service fee. They also offer very inexpensive add ons for your heating and cooling, dishwasher, and microwave. If you would like to download an application, simply click here.

If you have been researching property on Hilton Head Island and were wondering what the estimated costs are, we have developed a program for a cost analysis that we can prepare any property on Hilton Head Island. This cost analysis plugs in everything from Property owners association fees, villa regime fees, yard maintenance and even rental income if you are considering rental.  Let us know if you would like for us to prepare an analysis of a property and we will email it to you.

This past month we were able to work with some buyers and learned some new ways to comparison shop. As you know, the key to finding the right property today is more a process of elimination than it is trying to look at every property for sale on Hilton Head Island. That is why we like to build a spreadsheet for our buyers and use the following in our comparisons:

• Price per square foot
• List to sell averages
• Year Built
• View
• Price per bedroom
• Square foot per bedroom

If you are shopping for Hilton Head Property and would like us to send you this comparison for any community or area including homes and villas anywhere on Hilton Head Island,  just email us your search perimeters and we will download this report and e-mail it to you. This is a real eye opener and time saver.