So over my shoulder here is Charleston. Now, when most
people say that they're moving to Charleston, they don't
actually mean right here on the peninsula. So in this video,
we're going to talk about the top five places people are
actually moving to when they moved to the area. Welcome back,
everybody. As always, I'm Bill Olson, your favorite YouTube
Charleston realtor. Today, we're talking about one of the top
questions that I get when people are researching the area. And
that is, where are people moving to? And why do they move here?
So we're gonna get into those top five places. But before we
do if you're considering a move, or you've already moved to
Charleston, like what area of town did you pick? And why did
you pick that? Drop it down in the comments, let's see if it
made the top five list. Spoiler where I live actually isn't on
this list. And that is James Island. So it's nothing I am
picking favorites. We're going to actually go through this list
in alphabetical order. And the number one place on my list is
JOHN'S ISLAND. One of the reasons people love moving to
JOHN'S ISLAND. And the reason why we ended up moving to JOHN'S
ISLAND first was because of its location, you're still
relatively close to downtown, you're relatively close to the
beaches. The cost of living there is slightly lower than
James Island, which does put you a little closer to downtown in
the beaches. But there's so much going on on JOHN'S ISLAND. If
you want to be in the middle of a lot of growth with a lot of
locally owned businesses. John's Island is definitely the place
to be when highlighted neighborhood there is a new
construction neighborhood of Sea Island Preserve, where it's
about a 700 acre neighborhood, with 360 of those acres are
actually being preserved for wetlands and neighborhood parks.
Prices on JOHN'S ISLAND, you can still find something between two
and 300. But you know, be expected to have to do a little
work and updating it. And then prices go all the way up to home
listed right now, in a specific neighborhood of Breyers Creek as
a gated golf course community at $10.5 million. Next up on our
list, we're going to head across a few bridges and brings us to
Mount Pleasant. I'm not gonna lie about this. Most of the
people that I talked to initially, Mount Pleasant is the
number one place they want to move to. Now why is this and why
don't they end up moving there. But there's three kind of main
reasons why people really want to live in Mount Pleasant. One
is the convenience and the location, you're very close to
downtown, and very close to two out of the three main beaches
here in Charleston, that's Isla Palms and Sullivan's Island. The
second reason is the schools, great schools dot Oregon
news.com have put Mount Pleasant as some of the top rated schools
in the state. And then the third reason is the convenience. With
Mount Pleasant being so built up, you are never far from a
restaurant or a store or a grocery store. So you don't have
to go far. Now, the reason people end up not moving to
Mount Pleasant, is they get a little sticker shock. It is one
of the more expensive places to live here in Charleston. With
small homes that need a little work, you're gonna start in the
four hundreds, and you can pay upwards of 5 million and beyond.
If you want to be on deep water, the next spot on our list might
actually come to a surprise for a lot of people, because it does
get a bad rap for some reason, and that is North Charleston.
One of the reasons why people move to North Charleston is the
value, the median price in North Charleston is about 25% lower
than that of the greater Charleston area. It's one of the
last places where you can still find homes under $200,000. Now,
the prices of course do go up from there depending on your
neighborhood. And if you want it to be waterfront, there's even a
northern section of North Charleston that falls into
Dorchester district two schools, which is a highly rated school
district here in Charleston. On the other side, we do have Park
Circle. Park Circle has seen a revitalization over the last
five to 10 years and has really become the place to be whether
you live there or not. And actually within Park Circle is
the academic Magnet High School, which US News and World Report
has ranked as the number two high school in the entire
country. The next one on our list actually has the most close
sales years to date than any other area in Charleston and
it's probably due to its size. And that is Somerville.
Somerville is huge. It does have homes in all three counties,
Dorchester Berkeley, and Charleston County. But one of
the main draws again we get back to this theme of schools. Half
of Somerville is in that Dorchester district to school
district that I mentioned Before and on the other side, you do
have the cane Bay schools in Berkeley County. One of the big
draws of Somerville is people looking for new construction,
most of the new construction in the Charleston area happens to
be in and around Somerville. And it is also where the best values
of new construction can be found. So if you've watched any
of my other videos, you know, the further you get from
downtown and the beaches, the further your dollar stretches,
well, that takes you up into Somerville where you can find
those values. And lastly, we're going to head back into the city
of Charleston, but not in that Peninsula area. Behind me,
specifically the West Ashley area of Charleston, which is
area west of the Ashley River, very intuitive name they had for
that one, what's actually actually divided into three
sections, there's inside 526, outside 526, and rural West
Ashley, for this, we're actually just talking about the inside
and outside 526 This is where most of the homes are in West
Ashley, inside 526, you're gonna find a lot of older homes, most
of them built in like the 50s 60s in some of the
neighborhoods, they're gonna fetch a higher price, and
outside 526, where you're gonna find a lot of the newer homes
and newer construction, new construction out there, it's
where everything is growing. The reason people moved to West
Ashley is its location in the median price is just slightly
higher than the median of that of the greater Charleston area.
But it still doesn't put you very far from the beaches, and
downtown and everything Charleston has to offer. Now
homes are going to start in the three to four hundreds, and
they're going to go up from there. So if you've moved to
Charleston, you're thinking of moving to Charleston, like what
area sounds best for you like, where are you focusing in on
your search. If you want information about any of these
areas, or any other areas, please hit me up at info at
living in chs.com Or I'll put all my contact information in
the description below. Reach out however you'd like. And as
always, if you're looking to buy or sell anywhere in the
Charleston area, we'd love to be your realtor of choice. Have a
great day and I'll see you on the next video.