Myrtle Beach real estate
guides, tools, and reports.

Buying a home

• Buying a home in Myrtle Beach
  The local process, the real costs, and what to check before you offer.
• First-time home buyers
  The lowest-cash ways into the market and the mistakes specific to here.
• Moving to the Grand Strand
  The relocation guide: how to pick a town and buy from out of state.
• Why everyone is moving here
  The prices, the taxes, twelve months of coast, and what movers from each region say.
• Cost of living calculator
  Compare your city with the Grand Strand across 387 metro areas, plus the taxes the index does not measure.
• Pros and cons of living here
  Year-round life on the coast, including the parts that make people leave.
• New resident checklist
  License, vehicle registration, county tax and utilities, in deadline order.
• Schools and attendance zones
  How to verify the zone for an exact address, and why zones change here.
• Moving from North Carolina
  The honest math next door: the $100,000 income crossover, pensions, groceries and gas.
• Moving from New York
  Income, property, vehicle and estate tax compared, and the residency rule that follows you.
• Moving from New Jersey
  The property tax drop done honestly, and the 2% closing holdback explained.
• Moving from Pennsylvania
  Retiree taxes rise a little; property, wage, gas and inheritance taxes drop.
• Moving from Maryland
  The county income tax you stop paying, and the only state with both an estate and an inheritance tax.
• Moving from Virginia
  The car tax you already know, the age deduction most retirees lose, and military retirement compared.
• Moving from Connecticut
  The property tax cut in half or better, and the income lines Connecticut draws around retirement.
• Moving from Massachusetts
  The $2 million estate tax line, the public pension warning, and a house for close to half.
• Which Grand Strand town fits you
  Prices, city versus county rules, hospitals and drive times, town by town.
• Jobs and the economy
  What work exists here, who hires, what it pays, and how the season swings.
• Healthcare and hospitals
  Every hospital with beds and addresses, the three being built, and what means a drive to Charleston.
• Hurricanes and storm history
  Every storm since Hugo, told partly first person, and how to check one address before you buy.
• Weather and ocean temperatures
  Season by season temperatures, ocean water by month, real humidity and sunshine numbers, snow.
• Getting around the Grand Strand
  The airport and its nonstop cities, the two US 17s, the freeways locals use, the bus, and I-73.
• Beach rules, town by town
  When dogs are allowed on which beach, tent and umbrella limits, parking, and the winter golf cart season.
• Moving from Ohio
  City income taxes end, the car tax is new, and what surprised Devin.
• Retiring in Myrtle Beach
  Buying for retirement, the tax breaks, and the costs retirees underestimate.
• Buying a second home
  Occupancy rules, the 6% tax rate, and condo versus beach house.
• VA loans in Myrtle Beach
  Using your VA benefit here, including the fees veterans never pay.
• Down payment assistance
  South Carolina programs that help with the cash to close.
• Common buyer mistakes
  The errors that cost Grand Strand buyers thousands, and how to avoid them.
• Buying a condo in litigation
  Why lenders decline it, and when it becomes the best deal on the board.
• Checking a home for past flooding
  Flood zone versus flood history, and how to find the real record.

Costs and calculators

• Property tax calculator
  The 4% versus 6% rule for Horry County, with a calculator.
• Closing cost calculator
  Buyer and seller closing costs in South Carolina, itemized.
• Coastal insurance costs
  The three policies coastal owners carry, and how to lower the bill.

Communities

• 55+ communities
  Nine active-adult communities compared on price and monthly fees.
• Golf course communities
  Fourteen communities compared, including whether membership is required.

Investing on the Grand Strand

• Investor hub
  Every investment tool and guide in one place.
• Long-term rental analyzer
  Enter an address and financing terms to get the full return picture.
• Short-term rental tools
  Revenue, average daily rate, and occupancy for a specific property.
• Short-term versus long-term rental
  Which strategy fits a property, and the control advantage of nightly rentals.
• Are Myrtle Beach condos a good investment?
  How the building, the financing, and the management decide the outcome.
• Condotel financing
  The loans that close the buildings most banks decline.
• Short-term rental rules by city
  Where short-term rentals are legal, jurisdiction by jurisdiction.
• Airbnb income report
  What Grand Strand short-term rentals actually gross and net.
• Oceanfront condo building directory
  Rental operations, HOA fees, and prices, building by building.

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Investor strategies

• DSCR loans
  Qualify a rental on its own income instead of your tax returns.
• The BRRRR method
  Buy, rehab, rent, refinance, repeat, with one sum of cash.
• Fix and flip
  The profit math, holding costs, and financing for a local flip.
• 1031 exchange
  Defer the tax when you sell one investment and buy another.
• Delaware Statutory Trust (DST)
  The hands-off way to complete a 1031 exchange.
• Small multifamily investing
  Duplex to fourplex, house hacking, and the four-unit financing line.

Selling a home

• Selling your home
  Data-driven pricing and a marketing plan built for the real buyer.
• Selling to out-of-state buyers
  How we reach the out-of-state buyers who drive demand here.
• Selling an inherited house
  Probate timing, the stepped-up basis, and the three ways to sell.
• Selling a condo
  Pricing to the buyer pool your building can actually attract.
• Capital gains and SC withholding
  What you owe when you sell, and the withholding out-of-state sellers hit.

Neighborhoods

• All neighborhoods
  Compare the Grand Strand submarkets for buying and investing.
• Myrtle Beach
  The core market: deepest condo inventory and resort-zone rentals.
• North Myrtle Beach
  The family-beach short-term rental market.
• Carolina Forest
  The biggest master-planned community: top schools and new construction.
• Surfside Beach
  A small family beach town with two short-term rental districts.
• Murrells Inlet
  The MarshWalk dining economy on a split-county tax map.
• Pawleys Island
  The upscale south end with no short-term rental regulation.
• Little River
  The boating end of the Strand, more affordable than the oceanfront towns.
• Conway
  The inland value market with the lowest entry prices in the county.
• Garden City
  An unincorporated beach community with permissive rental rules.

Market data and company

• Market reports
  Grand Strand real estate data, updated every month.
• July 2026 market report
  The latest sales, prices, inventory, and mortgage rates, with sources.
• 3D map search
  Explore the Grand Strand in 3D and open any area's report.
• About Chapter3 Realty
  The team, the licenses, and how we work.
• Why Chapter3
  What a data-driven brokerage actually does for you.
• Contact
  Talk to a licensed Grand Strand agent.

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