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.
• 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.

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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