Moving to Myrtle Beach
Sixty miles of coast. Eight towns. They are not the same place.
People move here for the obvious reasons and stay for the ones they didn't know about. I came in 2013 and half the buyers I work with now are coming from somewhere else. This page is the conversation I have with every one of them first.
How the towns differ
Pick the town before the house.
Myrtle Beach is the name on the airport, but most of my clients don't end up in Myrtle Beach proper. North to south the Strand changes every ten miles: working marinas, wide beaches, a historic river town, a four-mile island, a harbor city. Read these, pick two, and we start there.
- 01Little River & Longs1,552 homes →
Working marinas, casino boats, and the Strand's most attainable waterfront.
- 02North Myrtle Beach1,194 homes →
Wide beaches, shag-dancing roots, and Barefoot Landing on the Waterway.
Barefoot Resort · Cherry Grove
- 03Myrtle Beach4,397 homes →
The center of everything — Boardwalk, airport, and the Strand's gated golf addresses.
Grande Dunes · Carolina Forest · The Market Common
- 04Surfside & Garden City545 homes →
Family beach piers, raised beach houses, and a slower pace fifteen minutes south.
- 05Murrells Inlet337 homes →
The seafood capital — Marshwalk dinners, Brookgreen Gardens, creek-front homes.
- 06Pawleys Island378 homes →
Arrogantly shabby hammocks, four miles of island, and time that moves differently.
Litchfield · DeBordieu Colony
- 07Georgetown372 homes →
South Carolina's third-oldest city — working harbor, antebellum streets, rice country.
- 08Conway & Aynor1,502 homes →
Historic riverfront downtown, Coastal Carolina University, and farm country beyond.
How far from home
Close enough that they'll visit. Far enough that they'll call first.
Most of my relocating clients keep a foot in the city they came from for a year or two: a parent, a practice, a season of games. These are drive times to Myrtle Beach itself. Every town page shows its own time, which matters when the difference between Little River and Pawleys Island is an hour.
Flying in? Myrtle Beach International (MYR) is about 25 minutes from downtown; each town page shows its own time from the airport.
- Charlotte
- 3 hr 40 min
- Greenville
- 4 hr 15 min
- Raleigh
- 3 hr 30 min
- Atlanta
- 5 hr 15 min
- Columbia
- 2 hr 45 min
- Charleston
- 2 hr 15 min
- Washington DC
- 8 hr 15 min
- Philadelphia
- 9 hr 30 min
- New York
- 11 hr
- Rock Hill
- 3 hr 15 min
- Pinehurst
- 3 hr 15 min
If you want new
A thousand new homes on the market at any time. Not all of them are built well.
Carolina Forest, Conway and the stretch between them are where most of the new construction is. I know which builders' 2021 work is already showing and which neighborhoods were platted on ground that holds water. Browse every new, under-construction and to-be-built home, then ask me about the builder before you ask about the floor plan.
For relocating healthcare professionals
Coming for Grand Strand, Tidelands, Conway or McLeod? Start here.
Before real estate I was an ICU nurse at a Level I trauma center, and my husband is a CRNA. Which hospital you're badging into decides where we look, and a signed contract changes how soon you can buy. I wrote a page just for you.
Buying from a distance
Most of my clients buy from a distance. You'll be surprised how smooth this part is.
01
The first call is about the life, not the house
Before I send a single listing we talk about how you'll actually spend a Tuesday here. Who visits, how often, what you want to be ten minutes from, and what you're unwilling to give up. The list that comes out of that is short, and it's right.
02
One trip, not four
By the time you fly in, the list is five houses, not twenty-five. I've already driven to each one at the hour you'd be doing it, and I've already ruled out the ones that photograph better than they live.
03
I tell you what is wrong with the house
Flood zone, insurance history, HOA litigation, the assessment coming in two years, the builder with a reputation. You hear it from me before the inspector, and sometimes before it's public.
04
I stay after closing
The insurance broker who answers the phone, a contractor who shows up, a doctor taking new patients, who to call about the irrigation. Relocating is a two-year project. Closing is somewhere near the beginning of it.
Where it begins
Tell me where you're coming from and what a good Tuesday looks like.
Twenty minutes by video, at an hour that suits you. No listings until we've talked.