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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...

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) settlement aims to resolve litigation for claims made by home sellers about commission structures. It covers NAR, its over one million members, REALTOR® associations at all levels, association-owned MLSs, and brokerages led by an NAR member with a residential transaction volume up to $2 billion in 2022.

Below are some highlights on how the settlement agreement has affected the MLS platform, policies, and procedures. These MLS changes apply to all CCMLS (Coastal Carolina Association of Realtors Multiple Listing Service) subscribers and participants as of August 12th, 2024.

Written Buyer Agreements
ALL MLS participants and subscribers must have a ...

Westbury Plantation is a new home community in Conway that is in the planning stages. Westbury Plantation is conveniently located east of downtown Conway just off of Old Reaves Ferry Road. The new home community of Westbury Plantation in Conway resided on an approximate 145 acres of land.

Current activity regarding Westbury Plantation is the rezoning from (1) Forest Agricultural (FA) - Agriculture, forestry, low-density residential, limited commercial (maximum size of 4,500 sq.ft.), social, cultural, recreational, and religious uses to (2) Multi-Residential One (MRD 1) - Allows for mixed residential development in the RURAL areas of the county as identified on the future land use map.

T...

Norris Farms is a new home community in Conway that is currently in the planning stages. The location of the new home community of Norris Farms is north of downtown Conway and close to the Highway 22 and Highway 701 interchange.

Norris Farms is nestled between Long Avenue Extension and Boggy Road – directly off of Dock Road. The new home community of Plantersfield, by Starlight Homes, is adjacent to where the new home community of Norris Farms will be developed.

Norris Farms consists of 3 tracts of land totaling approximately 76.85 acres.

Current plans are for there to be 134 single family homes developed in Norris Farms.

Benton Rentals LLC currently owns this land.

Timing for develo...

One of the Ride 3 projects, the U.S. Highway 501 realignment from Broadway Street to 7th Avenue has just started early phases of construction.  This project will realign U.S. Hwy. 501 at the Broadway Street intersection to connect to 7th Avenue North at Oak Street in the City of Myrtle Beach (new alignment).   This Ride 3 project will also install sidewalks and intersection improvements on 7th Avenue North, between Oak Street and North Kings Highway.

Initial work that is just now starting will involve the replacement of water and sewer lines along 7th Avenue North and will also involve the addition of storm drainage to select portions of Kings Highway and Broadway Street.

The anticipate...

Vansant Realty Group client closes on home in Anchors Bend!

Denise Vansant, broker in charge at Vansant Realty Group, was the Buyer’s Agent for the recent sale of 445 Anchors Bend in Longs, SC.  This home sold for $273,900.

This home is located in Anchors Bend, a community of 128 single family homes in Longs, SC – close to the Highway 905 and Highway 9 interchange.

Anchors Bend is a D. R. Horton community that initially began construction in 2015.  Homes are selling in Anchors Bend from the upper $200’s to the middle $300’s.

For details on the home that sold, please visit - 445 Anchors Bend.

Amerling Ridge is a new home community coming to Longs, SC. Amerling Ridge is conveniently located close to Highway 9 in Longs – at the intersection of Long Acres Drive and SC Highway 905. Village at Longs and Timber Ridge are a couple of existing Longs communities near where Amerling Ridge will be developed.

Amerling Ridge will reside on approximately 40 acres of land.

Preliminary plans for the new home community of Amerling Roidge in Longs will be to develop 90 single family homes.

Long Acres LLC purchased this land in May of 2024.

The process to amend the land use to “Rural Communities” for this property occurred in August 2024.

Timing for the development of Amerling Ridge has not...

The Willows at Pitch Landing is a new home community coming to Conway.

Willows at Pitch Landing will be developed on an approximate 60 acre parcel of land, southwest of downtown Conway, west of Highway 701, and directly off of Pitch Landing Road.

Preliminary plans are for there to be 121 single family lots in the new home community of Willows at Pitch Landing in Conway.

Construction plans have been approved to move forward with 100 lots be platted in accordance with the Land Developments Regulations for one point of external access. After the second point of access is built on the adjacent parcel (labeled “Future” in the accompanying graphic) and paved, then the County would allow for ...