The many and varied neighborhoods of the Charleston Peninsula

Living in Charleston is an experience unlike any other. Urban but close to nature, historic with all the conveniences of modern living, lively, peaceful and utterly romantic – it’s the best of all worlds. On this Peninsula we call Charleston, we are surrounded by rivers and live in vastly different neighborhoods. We eat at fine restaurants and walk to work....

Charleston is not Disneyworld

Resorts, hotels, golf courses, dining and entertainment, shopping galore and recreation for all!!! This is the call of two places that share much in common. Both are major tourist attractions, both see 100s of thousands of visitors a year, both are beautiful and cheerful and set your eyes agog with the veritable rainbow of colors lining their streets. But Disneyworld...

Kristin Walker Takes Us for a Ride (Courtesy of the CityPaper)

I thought Cara, the author, did such a great job in capturing the spirit of what I am out to accomplish so I decided to post this article in full. While Charleston is already is an amazing place to live, it has so much potential to be even better! Charleston is well on its way to becoming a leader in...

Bike-friendly Neighborhoods of Charleston

Since many of you, like me, love to ride a bike and want to live somewhere it is not only possible, but pleasurable, here is a list of my favorite bike-friendly neighborhoods and areas in Charleston. If there are some I have left off (in Mt. Pleasant and West Ashley for example) please let me know! What makes an...

Home Sales on the Charleston Peninsula – Makin’ it Snappy

Some of the numbers in my previous post “Home Sellers Finally Get It” looked downright scary. Homes on the market for over 700 days. 700! And these are just the ones that have recently sold. Who knows how many others are out there still sitting and waiting to be rescued? One would think that with stats like that, very little...

Charleston Peninsula Home Sellers Finally Get It

For the past couple years we’ve been watching and waiting as real estate sales plummeted, yet home sellers held firm on their asking prices. Call it stubbornness, pride or disbelief, but people weren’t budging. Well, they are now – whether by force, generosity or pure exhaustion. If you are in the market for a new home in Charleston, or if you have been eyeing...

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Sounds of the City

Have you ever been to the top of the Empire State Building, or stood on the rooftop of a 5-story walk-up in the East Village, or walked from Downtown to Uptown through all its changing faces? The cacophony, the constancy, the buses, sirens, the laughter, the street musicians, the rumble of the subways in the belly of the beast. Vibrant. ...

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