I could learn to love winter, as least as long as I am working with customers searching for a golf home. That is because when the cold weather kicks in, so too do the searches. There is nothing like that first morning of the season when you fire up the window defroster to get people thinking seriously about a golf vacation home or permanent home in a climate where golf is year round and four seasons means three warm and one in which no more than a sweater is required on most days. (Note: It will go down to the mid 30s tonight in Myrtle Beach, for example, but today’s high was 56 and it was sunny; to a Connecticut boy, that is early May weather.)
Daniel Island Club features a Tom Fazio layout (shown) and one by Rees Jones.
Going where everything is in its proper place
Customers I am working with now are an eclectic group looking for homes across the southeast and hailing from up and down the east coast and elsewhere. For example, one couple from Fort Myers, FL are heading to the Charleston, SC, area with their two sons to begin a new life, most likely on Daniel Island, where all amenities are in and the population and home types meet the family’s needs for diversity. In his 60s, the husband says, “I want what I want NOW, and I do not want to wait five or ten years for someone to find the money to build a proper fitness center and grille room." The 15 minutes to Charleston, many people’s favorite southern town, is a big bonus.
New Hampshire is right next door to Vermont, and a couple from The Granite State purchased a home earlier this year in the RiverTowne Country Club community of Mt. Pleasant, SC, not 10 minutes from Daniel Island. Their son is planning to attend College of Charleston, just 20 minutes over the striking Ravenel Bridge, and RiverTowne featured a home they fell in love with at first sight. Some dedicated readers of this blog may recall that renegade developer Bobby Ginn once owned RiverTowne, but in the wake of his demise, the community did not suffer the same real estate disasters of other Ginn properties. That has made it an attractive purchase for individual home buyers and a New York industrialist who purchased the fine Arnold Palmer Design golf course and paired it with the classic Snee Farm layout a few miles away on Highway 17 to form the area’s only duel golf membership plan.
