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1/30/12 With home sales on Daniel Island up 20% last year, and inquiries about island property increasing in frequency, 2012 is shaping up to be a busy year here at Daniel Island Real Estate. The inventory of available properties on Daniel Island has returned to a level associated with a healthy market, and it appears buyers are taking note. To date this January, we have closed five sales and written contracts on twelve additional properties – a much higher level of activity than is typical for this time of year! (more…) |
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1/18/12 The Golf Course Home Network has included Daniel Island on its 2011 “Best of the Best” golf community rankings as a “Community of Distinction.” This annual compendium of rankings takes into account all major media rankings and accolades received by golf communities and their amenities during the course of the year.
Daniel Island’s accolades as a Top 50 Master Planned Community (Where to Retire magazine) and rankings from Golf Digest for the Rees Jones-designed Ralston Creek course are among the awards that counted towards this designation. (more…) |
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1/12/12 A team of Daniel Island Real Estate sales associates will be hitting the road this winter to meet potential buyers who are interested in moving south. The Ideal Living Resort & Retirement Expo – a series of traveling real estate shows designed to introduce retirees to the wide array of communities and relocation destinations in the southeast – takes place in Greenwich, Connecticut February 11-12 and in Northern Virginia March 3-4. Daniel Island Real Estate sales associates will be attending both shows to introduce Daniel Island and the diverse array of island property listings to hundreds of potential new buyers in these areas. (more…) |
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10/24/11 The PGA Tour’s Nationwide Tour comes to its annual pressure-packed conclusion October 27-30 on the Daniel Island Club’s Ralston Creek course where the season’s top sixty money winners will compete in the Nationwide Tour Championship at Daniel Island. The tournament’s $1 million purse includes a first prize of $180,000, but the big prize on the players’ minds are the 25 PGA Tour cards that will be awarded to the season’s final top earners following the tournament’s conclusion. (more…) |
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10/18/11 Since September first, sales associates at Daniel Island Real Estate have written contracts on 22 island properties representing a total of $17.2 million in volume. From condominiums priced in the $100,000s to a $3.375 million waterfront home in the golf neighborhood of Daniel Island Park (a market record for the year), this recent activity represents a wide range of properties and is a further indication that interest in real estate within this award-winning master planned community remains strong. Single-family home sales on Daniel Island are up 13% for the year compared to 2012, and island condominium sales – despite remaining flat nationwide – are up 22%.
The inventory of available resale properties on Daniel Island is down substantially compared to last year. With 33% fewer resale homes and 47% fewer resale condominiums available compared to last year at this time, construction activity is beginning to increase. Several new homes in the golf neighborhood of Daniel Island Park are nearing completion (one is already under contract), and construction will soon begin on additional golf homes, cottages and townhomes. |
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10/1/11 With a month-long lineup of home tours and festivals, concerts and road races, October is the month that Daniel Island and Charleston area residents join together in Charleston’s island town to show their support for many of the non-profit organizations that serve the region.
“Every year, through the growing array of charity-oriented initiatives that occur on Daniel Island, we estimate Daniel Island residents, businesses and organizations are involved in raising almost $2 million for area charitable organizations,” says Matt Sloan, President of the Daniel Island Company, the island’s master developer. “And October really is the highlight – multiple fundraising events occur here every weekend of the month. It’s hard to live or work here and not get caught up in the spirit of giving back.” (more…) |
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9/8/11 Daniel Island Real Estate recently welcomed Meryl Cromarty – a former top sales associate for the company – back to its offices. A seasoned Charleston real estate expert, Cromarty was a top sales associate on Daniel Island from 2000-2006. She has spent the past five years in south Florida working in the real estate investment and insurance sectors. The opportunity to return to the Daniel Island Real Estate team brought her back to Charleston, where she is already busy serving clients looking to buy and sell property on Daniel Island. (more…) |
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8/16/11 Daniel Island Real Estate welcomed South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on August 15 for the ceremonial signing of a new point-of-sale real estate law designed to limit tax increases on second homes, commercial and investment properties. As the center for real estate sales on Daniel Island, the riverfront Sales Center was an appropriate and scenic backdrop for the signing of House Bill 3713, which provides tax relief for purchasers of some properties. The new law applies to properties taxed at 6 percent and caps the amount that a property value can increase when a sales transaction occurs. (more…) |
