Yes, I have seen it. You do not need to send it to me.
I am referring to the Instagram reel where Ryan Serhant, the Owning Manhattan star, Netflix darling, and real estate force of nature, emphatically declares that our little slice of heaven, Bluffton, South Carolina is THE up-and-coming place to be.
For better or worse, the secret has actually been out for years. Ryan Serhant just happens to be one of the latest to figure it out. His signs are starting to pop up all over the Lowcountry.
The truth is, this corner of coastal South Carolina has been quietly “Extraordinary” for a long time. Those of us who planted our stakes here more than 30 years ago suspected as much, but it's gratifying when the rest of the world catches on. Or is it?
Beaufort County remains one of the fastest-growing real estate markets in the country. Where some are seeing growth and job opportunities, others are relocating to the Lowcountry for a quieter, coastal lifestyle.
And yet, for all its growth, this is still a place where the best land — the marsh-front, the deep-water, the tucked-away barrier island parcel — is genuinely finite. Some say it has been kissed by God. The Lowcountry cannot ever be expanded or reproduced. Working with land this good comes with a responsibility.
That scarcity matters. It also means that navigating this market — knowing which community fits your life, which parcel is worth fighting for, which permitting process will test your patience and which will simply end your will to live — requires someone who has been in the room for all of it. The boom years. The 2008 years (we don't talk about those much, but we remember them). The pandemic frenzy when everything sold in a weekend and buyers were waiving inspections like they were optional. We've seen all of it, and we have the hair loss to prove it.
At Court Atkins Group, we are Architects and Interior Designers first. But after 25 years with our roots in Bluffton and our work spread across the Lowcountry, we have become something else as well: Trusted Advisors who understand this market with the kind of specificity that only time and experience can buy.
We can help you select the right property, in the right community, and then — this is the part we love — design and build the right home on it. Or the right restaurant. Or the right boutique inn. Or whatever singular thing you've been imagining as you head this way.
Our clients are engaged, discerning people with a point of view. They deserve a team that has already absorbed the market's hard lessons so they don't have to.
We have the scars. You're welcome to benefit from them.
Ready to talk about what's possible in the Lowcountry? We know where to start.
— William Court
