Everybody loves a bargain, and when it is a bargain on a six-figure item like a home, the sense of achievement in landing that bargain is sooooo much more satisfying.

         But how does one sniff out value when searching for a golf community home, especially when there are so many golf communities to choose among and you may have so little time for research and visits. The March edition of our free newsletter, Home On The Course, offers a few hints. One of those is somewhat obvious, and that is to compare the cost per square foot of the homes you are considering once you have narrowed your choice of golf communities down to a precious few. We go a step farther in the March issue and offer some examples of extreme bargains at prices under $120 per square foot –- land included.

         Talk about value plays, a subscription to Home On The Course is $0 per square inch. To sign up today and be included on the mailing list for the March issue, just click here and fill out the simple form. And if you want a customized list of golf communities that match your requirements, including your price range, please fill out our online Golf Homes Questionnaire by clicking here. There is no cost or obligation and we never share your personal information without your permission.

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The 3,700 square foot home at Lake Greenwood's Grand Harbor (top)
looks out to the 11th fairway of the Davis Love III golf course.  The view
of other areas of the golf course (bottom) are downright "Revolutionary." 
The price on the home has just been dropped by more than $32,000 to
$357,700, making its cost per square foot, land included, under $100.
For homes currently for sale at Grand Harbor, click here.

 

 

         Unless you crave the honky tonk and neon lights of an active beach resort, the place to be on South Carolina’s Grand Strand is in the area south of Myrtle Beach, between Surfside Beach and Georgetown, which comprises the towns of Murrells Inlet, Litchfield and Pawleys Island. Most of the best of the 100 golf courses on the Strand are down there, minutes from each other, including the famed Caledonia Golf & Fish Club, as well as True Blue and Pawleys Plantation. So too are some of the most highly rated of the gated golf communities near the coast, including The Reserve at Litchfield, DeBordieu Colony, Pawleys Plantation and Wachesaw Plantation.

HeritageClubhouseThe clubhouse at Heritage Plantation

         One gated community, though, doesn’t get much love -– until you actually play its golf course and take a closer look at its real estate. Heritage Plantation, about two miles south of Caledonia and west of Pawleys Plantation, was developed in 1986. It is time it got noticed.

         I play the Heritage golf course every year or two, and last Sunday, as in the past, I was impressed with the efficient way they process members and public players from bag drop to parking lot -– via golf cart shuttle since it is 300 yards down the road -– to first tee. Because of the brutal competition for green fees in Myrtle Beach, Legends Group, owners of Heritage, Oyster Bay and the three Legends golf courses, has seen fit to throw in breakfast, lunch and two beers with the price of a greens fee; the lunch included the run of the menu, not just a hot dog. For the $50 I spent, it was a great deal.