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Brittmore Park is a relatively new community of single family homes in Myrtle Beach. Brittmore Park is located near the Highway 31 and Highway 707 interchange just off of Freewoods Road and relatively close to the St. James High School. D. R. Horton is the builder of Brittmore Park. This new community will only have 19 homesites and feature several of D. R. Horton's most popular single-family floorplans. Pricing at Brittmore Park starts at around $300,000. Delivery of these single family homes is beginning in 2023!

For more information:

https://www.BrittmorePark.com

Corporal Dennis James Lyden was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and served with the Horry County Police Department. His badge number was 353. In 2000, Corporal Dennis Lyden was shot and killed in the line of duty near the location of where the new home community of Lyden Village is being developed. Lyden Village is named after Corporal Dennis James Lyden.

Officer Down Memorial Page
Corporal Dennis James Lyden

Lyden Village is located where Carolina Lakes Boulevard meets Highway 544. Mungo Homes is the builder within the Lyden Village new home community. There will be 53 single family homes. This Myrtle Beach new home community of Lyden Village is adjacent to the new home community of The Gro...

Trieste at Bella Vita is new home community coming to Carolina Forest.  Ashton Woods in the builder.  Ashton Woods has been building homes since the 1980's across the country.  Ashton Woods is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, but sells new homes not only in Myrtle Beach, but also in Atlanta, Austin, Charleston, Dallas, Houston, Orlando, Phoenix, Raleigh and San Antonio.

Trieste at Bella Vita will be centrally located in Carolina Forest close to Highway 501 and Highway 31. Triesta at Bella Vita will have about 150 single family homes and is nestled inside of the master planned community of Bella Vita. Pricing will start in the $300's. The Isles at Bella Vita (Lennar) and Merrill Villas ...

The 140 mile long Waccamaw River enters South Carolina and flows across Horry County, past Conway. This slow moving blackwater river runs close to Highway 905, just a few miles east of downtown Conway and connects with a little known small lake named "Grissett Lake". It is at this waterway intersection that Great Southern Homes is building the new home community of Grissett Landing. Grissett Landing is one of the few communities in the Myrtle Beach area to offer direct Waccamaw River access for fishing and kayaking.

For more information - https://www.GrissettLanding.com

Vansant Realty Group uses Estate 360 for media services to support our business. 

Estate360 is a Full Service Media & Marketing Company located in Myrtle Beach, SC. They specialize in Photography, Videography, Virtual Tours, and several other marketing services. Some of their services include:

Listing Photography - Professional Quality listing photos.  They can typically schedule within 2-3 days and offer 24 hour turnaround on all photos!

Aerial Photography - The perfect way to showcase a property with a desirable location or nice view.

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Come and see this lovely home located on a quiet road in the Pawleys Island community with NO HOA! This home is 3 years new with an open, split floor plan. Kitchen has granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. Home is decorated in neutral colors with LVP flooring throughout. Fenced yard with a 12x24 storage shed that can be used as storage or turned into extra fun space such as an outdoor work shed or craft shed has AC unit and full electricity. Back yard has an above ground pool that will seller is willing to remove if buyer does not want it there. There is also a large cement patio off the back of the house that includes a screened in porch, perfect for enjoying the outdoors! ...

Move right into this lovely updated home that is ready to be made yours. This beautifully decorated 3 bedroom, 2 bath home is situated just a short golf cart drive to the beach in the Sun Community of Ocean Pines 55+ community in Murrells Inlet . This home is decorated beautifully with neutral colors and LVP flooring throughout. Conveniently located near the Marsh Walk, shopping, fine dining, beach and other local amenities including state of the art healthcare services. Professionally landscaped back yard boasts a cozy sitting area and dock on the pond. Enclosed Carolina room leads to an additional screened backyard entertainment area with outdoor bar . Garage with driveway allows for am...

The Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) increased in April 2023 to its highest level since May 2022. All six of the HPSI’s components increased month over month, most notably the component associated with consumers’ expectations of mortgage rates. 

The HPSI is constructed from consumers’ answers to six of the National Housing Survey (NHS) survey questions regarding consumers’ evaluations of housing market conditions and address topics that are related to their home purchase decisions.  These 6 questions ask consumers their opinion on it being a good time to sell or buy a house, their opinion on changes in home prices and interest rates, and their opinion about their job stat...

Single-family home prices increased at a non-seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.7 percent from Q1 2022 to Q1 2023, down from the previous quarter's revised annual growth rate of 8.6 percent, according to Fannie Mae's (FNMA/OTCQB) latest Home Price Index (FNM-HPI) reading, a national, repeat-transaction home price index measuring the average, quarterly price change for all single-family properties in the United States, excluding condos. On a quarterly basis, home prices rose a seasonally adjusted 1.0 percent in Q1 2023, above the 0.0 percent growth seen in the prior quarter. On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, home prices also increased by 1.0 percent in Q1 2023.

NOTE: The Fannie Mae Ho...

This important Myrtle Beach road construction project will complete 6-lane widening and signalized intersection improvements on U. S. Hwy. 501 from SC Hwy. 31 to the SC 544 interchange.

Phase 1 of this project – U.S. 501 Southbound from Gardner Lacy Road to SC 31.

Phase 2 of this project – U.S. 501 Northbound and Southbound from Gardner Lacy Road to SC 544.

This road construction project is on schedule with construction to be completed in the fall of 2024.

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South Carolina Association of REALTORS (SCR's) Form 310 Agreement/Contract: To Buy and Sell Real Estate (Residential) and Form 311 Agreement/Contract: To Buy and Sell Real Estate (Residential/Condo) transitioned to a strict Due Diligence contract with regards to repairs effective June 13, 2022.

Changes were made to Paragraph 8 which is currently entitled “REPAIRS”.  Previously there were 3 selectable repair options: (1) Repair Procedures, (2) Due Diligence and (3) As Is.  Repair Procedures and As were removed – leaving only the Due Diligence clause.  Due Diligence verbiage did not change.  Due Diligence Expiration Date and Termination Fee are the two primary Due Diligence fields required...

Renaissance Tower is one of the accommodations within the Myrtle Beach Resort.  Renaissance Tower was evacuated in October of 2022 after the building was deemed to be structurally unsound due to the deterioration of steel and the concrete foundation.

Since that time, multi-phase work has been ongoing to remediate the concerns, including but not limited to shoring up the three east columns to make them structurally sound. 

Once the engineers have achieved a point where they feel that the building has been remediated and comfortable to be occupied, the next step will be for them to notify the Horry County Building Inspection Branch of the Code Enforcement Department to continue the conver...

New listing in Cherry Grove!

308 36th Avenue North, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582

$649,000

MLS# 2224792

Come and see this Magnificent completely renovated 4 bed/2 bath channel front home in Cherry Grove. Totally updated with new kitchen cabinets, granite counter tops, fresh neutral paint colors throughout. Bathrooms updated to include new vanities and accessories and new LVP flooring throughout. All appliances are brand new to include a stackable washer and dryer along with stainless steel oven, dishwasher and refrigerator. This lovely home is in move in mint condition and would make a wonderful family vacation property or a lucrative rental property for short rentals. Very close to th...

Penny Tax Approved

On November 8, 2022, Horry County voters approved to renew the 1% sales tax (Penny Tax) beyond March 2023 for another 15 years. The Penny Tax vote was passed 68.23% in favor of retaining the tax and 31.77% in favor of discontinuing the tax. Of the 125, 978 votes cast by Horry County voters, 48,670 were cast prior to voting day – nearly 40% early voters!

The tax money is planned to be used to help fund future building needs and capital improvements of Public Schools (80%), Coastal Carolina University (13.3%) and Horry Georgetown Technical College (6.7%). Since this has been approved, it will be less likely for significant increases in taxes for houses, business, vehicl...

SayeBrook is a new home community in Surfside that is currently being developed with Phase 1 homes set to release in early 2023.

The first phase of this community will consist of approximately 155 single family homes.  Construction in the new home community of SayeBrook is rather unique in that the completed homes by the builders are intermixed rather than each builder having its own dedicated section of the community.  This lends itself well to result in a community with a nice diversification of homes along each street - with different models from different builders along the way!
Pricing will likely start in the $400's.

Pulte, Toll Brothers and Saussy Burbank are the 3 builders in th...

Penny Tax - On November 8th, Horry County voters will decide whether or not to renew (past March 2023 for another 15 years) the 1% sales tax that has been in effect when voters last approved it in 2008. The tax money would be used to help fund future building needs and capital improvements of Public Schools (80%), Coastal Carolina University (13.3%) and Horry Georgetown Technical College (6.7%). If not approved, an increase in taxes for houses, business, vehicles, land and personal property would be used to cover the aforementioned school expenses.

See Horry County Schools (https://www.horrycountyschools.net/penny) for more information.

Roll-Back Taxes are applied when all or a portion of a property that has been receiving the Agricultural Use Value changes classification. An example would be when a property owner of land that is in Agricultural use builds a new house that is for residential use. The appraiser must determine the amount of the property that must be changed and then roll-back taxes are applied.

Effective January 1, 2021, rollback taxes are to be assessed over a three-year period rather than the previous five-year period.

Roll-back taxes are the difference between Agricultural use value and the property’s actual market value. The difference is multiplied by the millage rate in the appropriate district and...

• The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) regulates all public water systems (PWS) and is responsible for ensuring that these public water systems are in compliance with all state and federal regulations.
• Local municipal, county, and other government entities, along with private water suppliers, are directly responsible for the quality of water that flows to your faucet.
• Water systems test and treat their water, maintain the distribution systems that deliver water to consumers, and report on their water quality results to DHEC.
• States and EPA provide technical assistance to water suppliers and can take legal action against systems that fail to provide w...

A Self-Directed IRA (SDIRA) is an IRA held by a custodian that allows investment in a broader set of assets than is permitted by most IRA custodians.  Custodians for SDIRAs generally disclaim most duties to investors (i.e. custodians will not research, investigate or recommend investments), and may allow investors to invest retirement funds in alternate assets such as real estate.

Real estate as an asset in a retirement portfolio can serve as a good way to diversify the investment portfolio and provide another avenue for a good rate of return.

There are many rules regarding having real estate as part of the SDIRA investment, including but not limited to having this asset be purely an in...

Generally speaking, a capital gain occurs if you sell an asset for more than the adjusted basis, with the capital gain being the difference between the adjusted basis in the asset and the amount you realized from the sale.  A capital gain can be realized from the sale of real estate.  The Internal Revenue Code defines the complete set of rules regarding the taxation of capital gains.

You may qualify to exclude from your income all or part of any gain from the sale of your main home. Your main home is the one in which you live most of the time.

Ownership and Use Tests

To claim the exclusion, you must meet the ownership and use tests. This means that during the 5-year period ending on th...