If your Hilton Head property is listed for sale, good news, the butterflies are back!  Butterflies and baby boomers show up in the fall on Hilton Head as they make their migration south.  Given the present interest rates, the growing confidence in the economy and 42% of the 77 million baby boomers indicating they wish to retire in the south-east, the fall market is going to be absolutely incredible for our Hilton Head Area Sellers! Read the rest of this entry

Investors are once again moving into the Hilton Head Real Estate market.  Some are looking for return and have no plans on using the property while others are adding it to their portfolios with the expected fringe benefits of using it when it is not rented.  We welcome back these purchasers and think they will like what they see.  In fact, Yahoo Finance, just ranked the Hilton Head Market as one of “5 Best Markets to Buy a Home” and we have listed some reasons why. Read the rest of this entry

Reading the National Assoication of Realtors(NAR) Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers 2012 all we got to say is right on!  In the last year, this report states that over 90% of all buyers went to the web and 42% found the actual property they wound up purchasing in 2o12.  We have seen this in the Hilton Head Market, as buyers walk in with a few property printouts and ask us to show them these properties.  Other trends are listed below… Read the rest of this entry

Happy New Year Hilton Head!  Behind us now is the fiscal cliff, the election and the tail end of the recession.  Welcome 2013!!  While we will look back on 2012 with love and affection we are very excited about the New Year ahead.  Below are the observations and expectations for 2013 Hilton Head Island Real Estate.  Read the rest of this entry

Some Hilton Head buyers and sellers may be shell shy from the past few years, but they need to get over it if they want to take advantage of timing their real estate move.  Hilton Head Inventories are dropping and for buyers and sellers it is time to jump back into the real estate market.  The past has shown us that the fear of future events is greater than the reality as we move out of the housing recession, elections and anything else that stands in the way of the housing recovery.  The Hilton Head housing market is on a slow roll. Read the rest of this entry

Every residential Hilton Head community that ever had a vacant home-site has a ARB which is an acronym for Architectural Review Board.  Just like a Hilton Head POA, the board is made up of members from the community, professionals and adminstrators that make decisions about the architecture based on the covenants of the community.  These review boards protect the residential integrity of their community and help uphold property values from these efforts. Read the rest of this entry

Great news.  The Island is now going to create a waterfront sailing and rowing club.  Down Squire Pope Road this property will replace the location for the rowing club under the Old Oyster Factory.  Which brings back many great memories and we are thankful we had this location.  What a great Island we live on.  Must mention my wife Laurie for resurrecting the rowing club for our High School Students a few years ago.  Of course, she did this with our son in mind and her commitment, passion and dedication carries forward..click on Hilton Head rowing, sailing center plans speed forward – Beaufort News – IslandPacket.com.

We have our own language when it comes to Hilton Head real estate.  We say villas, regimes, harbours and complexes when others would call them condos, condo fees, marinas, PUD’s and projects.  We use the word regime for condos in Hilton Head because when a condo is built in South Carolina, a Horizontal Property Regime is formed and recorded.  This regime than manages the common property going forward.  This blog is about regimes fees on Hilton Head Island. Read the rest of this entry

Located 70 miles off our coast is the gulf stream, Hilton Head’s guardian angel.  Storms in the past that have hit the gulfstream get bumped north and because Hilton Head is in the cove of the coast it has missed us.  The gulf stream also keeps Hilton Head temperatures warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer.

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