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The Myrtle Beach International Airport (MYR) is the gateway to Myrtle Beach, SC, the Grand Strand and the Hammock Coast. The Myrtle Beach International Airport is owned by Horry County and operated by the Department of Airports. MYR is served by Allegiant, American, Avelo, Breeze, Delta, Frontier, Porter, Southwest, Spirit, Sun Country, and United Airlines.

As domestic air travel continues its rapid growth post-pandemic, MYR identified a need to renovate and expand its existing buildings and associated infrastructure to accommodate current and future growth. As a popular travel destination, airport leadership realized the need to maintain a high level of customer service while also showc...

Carrington Woods is a new home community in Longs, SC that started presale homes in Septembet 2024!

Homes are priced between $305,000 and $390,000.

Carrington Woods is nestled between Highway 9 and Sun Colony Boulevard and neighbors the Sun Colony community. Palmetto Greens, Colonial Place, Cloverleaf, The Retreat and the Lakes @ Plantation Pines are some of the other communities close to where Carrington Woods is being developed. Carrington Woods is conveniently located near the intersection of Highway 9 and Highway 31 and Highway 17, simplifying the commute all around the Grand Strand.

Carrington Woods is being developed on a 24 acre piece of land in Longs, SC. There will be 90 singl...

Robert Edge Townhomes is a new townhome community in North Myrtle Beach that is currently in the planning stages. This new townhome community is conveniently located at the intersection of Robert Edge Parkway and Highway 31. Robert Edge Parkway extends from SC Highway 90 west to US Highway 17 at Main Street in North Myrtle Beach and includes a bridge over the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and an interchange at Carolina Bays Parkway. The Robert Edge Parkway (named after Robert Edge) opened in September 2009 and was the final project in Horry County’s initial Road Improvement and Development Effort (RIDE) program.

Robert Edge is a well-known name in the Grand Strand. Robert Edge, Sr. was ...

Hope Pointe is a new home community coming to North Myrtle Beach, SC. The new home community of Hope Pointe is conveniently located right off of Little River Neck Road and extends all the way to the Intracoastal Waterway.

The Tidewater Golf Club is adjacent to where the new home community of Hope Pointe will be developed. Nestled between the Intracoastal Waterway and Cherry Grove Inlet, Tidewater Golf Club delivers unmatched natural beauty and a layout that has been ranked among the nation’s top 100 public golf courses. Tidewater Golf Club, which was named the nation’s best new public course by both Golf Digest and Golf Magazine when it opened in 1990, was purchased by an investment grou...

Sanderling Bay is a new home community coming soon to Pawleys Island, SC. Sanderling Bay is located just off of Martin Luther King Road just west of Highway 17. Sanderling Bay is surrounded by some of the most prestigious golf course in all of the Grand Strand, including Caledonia, True Blue, River Club and Litchfield Country Club.

Toll Brothers is the builder in Sanderling Bay.

Just minutes from the beach, Sanderling Bay is an intimate community of luxury new homes in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Single-story flexible home designs, some with additional loft options, the opportunity to personalize the spaces that matter most at Toll Brothers Design Studio allow you to create a dream ...

Proposed Marketwalk Project in Market Common – 9/6 Public Info Meeting

Marketwalk is a multifamily project being proposed in the Market Common.  This Thursday, September 6 at 5:30 PM at the General Robert Reed Recreation Center, 800 Gabreski Lane, the real estate developer HomeFed Corporation, will discuss plans for this project and answer questions from the public.  This revised Marketwalk project proposal will replace previous Marketwalk  proposed plans for a hotel at the corner of Farrow Parkway and Phillis Boulevard. The current proposed Marketwalk project includes 203 residential units (105 residential cottages, 98 townhomes), a swimming pool, clubhouse and 443 new parking spaces.

Homes are now selling in White Oak Estates!

White Oak Estates is a new home community on the north side of Conway!  White Oaks Estates is conveniently located east of Highway 501, just off of Cultra Road ever so slightly northwest of downtown Conway.  White Oak Estates is in an area of Conway that is growing fast.  White Oak Estates is located next to the new townhome community of Collins Walk by Lennar.  Collins Walk will ultimately have approximately 161 townhomes.  Tiger Grand and Rivertown Row are two other exiting neighboring communities near White Oak Estates.

Great Southern Homes is the builder in White Oak Estates.  Great Southern Homes is a leading builder in the Southeast and ...

Chestnut Farms in Longs by DRB Homes – starting to presell homes September 13!

Chestnut Farms is a new home community coming soon to Longs.  The new home community of Chestnut Farms is being developed on a 44 acre piece of land.  Chestnut Farms is conveniently located near the intersection of Highway 22 and Highway 90.  Horry County has approved development of up to 72 single family units in this Longs new home community of Chestnut Farms.

DRB Homes will be the builder in Chestnut Farms.  DRB Homes has over 30 years’ worth of experience and is involved with over 100 active new community development projects across the United States.  DRB Homes operates up and down the east coast, from P...

Victory Point is a new townhome community in Carolina Forest that is now selling!  The first delivery of townhomes that are now selling at Victory Point will be in December 2024.

Victory Point is conveniently located in the heart of Carolina Forest, directly off of Highway 501 near the interchange with Highway 31. Victory Point is within walking distance to the Tanger Outlets.

Horry County Government has approved the development of 401 multi-family units.

Lennar owns this 13.8 acre piece of land where the Victory Point townhomes are being constructed.

Pricing of these new Lennar townhomes in Victory Point is starting in the middle $270's.

Among the amenities at Victory Point will be ...

Mortgage Rates Continue to Drop

 On August 29, 2024, Freddie Mac released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), showing the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 6.35 percent.

Mortgage rates fell again this week likely due to expectations of a Fed rate cut.  It is widely expected that rates will continue their decline.

News Facts

• The 30-yearFixed Rate Mortgage (FRM) averaged 6.35 percent as of August 29, 2024, down from last week when it averaged 6.46 percent. A year ago at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 7.18 percent.
• The 15-year FRM averaged 5.51 percent, down from last week when it averaged 5.62 percent. A year ago at this time, the 15-year FRM ave...

Ravenloft is a new home community in Conway, SC that is currently in the planning stages. The new home community of Ravenloft is located a few miles north of downtown Conway just off of Highway 701 and close to the intersection of Highway 701 and Highway 22. More specifically, Ravenloft is located directly off of the Long Avenue Extension. Wisteria Woods (subdivision with 79 single family homes) and Plantersfield (subdivision with 87 single family homes) are two communities near where Ravenloft will be developed.

The new home community of Ravenloft will be developed on an approximate 16.73 acre piece of property. Conway Atlantic Land Development currently owns this land.

There has been ...

Surfworks, South Carolina's first surf & adventure park, continues to stay on track to open in the heart of America's favorite family beach destination, Myrtle Beach.  The question is….when!

The new surf park, powered by Wavegarden, will offer perfect waves all day, every day.  This facility will be the ideal place for learning to surf and progressing rapidly.

A couple of years back the highly anticipated opening of this new surf park was in the news and people were excited for the grand opening.  The excitement has tapered as the advertised opening dates came and went.  The company has not provided any new updates to the public, but there has been some promising activity behind the sce...

Garden Grove is a new home community coming soon to Conway!

South Causeway Builders is well underway with the land development and the models and a few spec homes are almost complete. Homes are expected to start preselling in September of 2024. Pricing of the single-family homes in Garden Grove is expected to be starting in the upper $200’s.

This Conway new home community is conveniently located just north of downtown Conway and directly off of the Four Mile Road and Oak Street intersection between Highway 501 and Highway 701 near Route 319. Garden Grove will be developed on the opposite side of Oak Street across from The Summit subdivision.

The new home community of Garden Grove is be...

Mullet Creek Townhomes is a small townhome community coming to Little River, SC that is in the planning stages. This new townhome community is located directly adjacent to Mullet Creek. The Little River flows through Milliken Cove and accepts drainage from the Calabash River (originating in North Carolina) and Mullet Creek.

There are planned to be 10 townhomes constructed in this community on a 9.35 acre parcel of land. Big Landing Plantation and Windjammer Village are subdivisions that are adjacent to the Mullet Creek Townhomes community.

The current proposed plan consists of 6 two-bedroom units and 4 three-bedroom units with a gross density of 1.14 du/ac and a net density of 3.58 du/a...

Middlebrooke is a new home community coming to Garden City. This Garden City new home community is conveniently located between Highway 17 and business Highway 17 - close to the beach! Middlebrooke will be developed alongside of Woodlake Village and the Indian Wells Golf Villas, just off of the Garden City Connector.

Middlebrooke will be a multi-phase residential development on an approximate 150 acre parcel that used to be the old Indian Wells Golf Course. The Indian Wells Golf Course closed in December of 2019.

The Middlebrooke subdivision is planned to have 338 single family units developed and 150 duplexes developed..

The latest proposed phasing plan is as follows:

Phase 1A - 98 d...

Rolling Hills is a new home community coming to Aynor, SC. The new home community of Rolling Hills in Aynor is located just a couple of minutes north of downtown Aynor, directly off of Highway 501. The Rolling Hills community will be nestled around Floyd Page Road and will be neighbors with Baylee Estates (61 single family homes) and Pageland Heights (37 single family homes).

The Rolling Hills master subdivision is situated on an approximate 209.09 acre parcel of land which includes approximately 19 acres of wetlands.

The internal road network in the Rolling Hills Community is proposed to be dedicated over to the County as Public right-of-way.

The current planned total number of single...

Havenview is a new home community coming to Murrells Inlet. This property is located directly across McDowell Shortcut Road from another new D. R. Horton community - Ranch Haven. This new subdivision of Havenview in Murrells Inlet is adjacent to the Indigo Creek Golf Club and near the International Club.

D. R. Horton recently purchased 15.7 acres directly off of McDowell Shortcut Road in Murrells Inlet. The latest development is considering the 81.98 acres adjacent to this land, coupling them together, and rezoning the combined tract.

The final plan then would be to develop 138 single family homes on the combined 99.66 acre tract.

The plan for the new home community of Havenview propos...

Cates Bay is a new home community coming to Conway that is in the early planning stages. The new home community of Cates Bay is located slightly southwest of downtown Conway just below Cates Bay Highway.

Spring Beauty Drive connects with Cates Bay Highway. Spring Beauty Drive is an existing 50 foot county road. A design modification was approved by the Horry County Planning Commission on February 2, 2023 to allow it to serve as the sole access for the new home community of Spring Beauty Estates, which has not yet been developed.

The owner previously attempted to rezone this property to SF 10 for 112 single family units back in November 2023, the request failed unanimously at Planning Co...

Timberline is a new home community coming to Conway. The Timberline community is located north of downtown Conway near the Highway 701 and Highway 22 interchange. The Timberline property is located just south of Poplar Church Road and directly off of Allentown Drive. The Wisteria Woods and Keighly communities are nearby.

The developer, Diamond Shores, is looking to rezone this property from Forest Agriculture to Multi-Residential District Preservation (MRD-P). MRD-P is the recently added new zoning district whereby smaller minimum lot sizes become permissible for the exchange of greater setbacks, landscape buffers and the implementation of sustainable design criteria. The sustainable dev...

In May of 2024, an Ordinance to amend the Zoning Appendix B of the Horry County Code of Ordinances pertaining to the Multi-Residential District was approved to establish a new zoning district – specifically the Multi-Residential Preservation (MRD-P) Zoning District.

The MRD-Preservation zoning district establishes design criteria for rural subdivisions. Collectively, a smaller minimum lot size becomes permissible for the exchange of greater setbacks, landscape buffers and the implementation of sustainable design criteria. The MRD-P zoning district allows a mixture of housing types; to include, single family and duplex dwellings, quadraplex, townhomes, zero lot-line development, tiny home...