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Dear Friends,
I hope you all weathered Hurricane Matthew with minimal damage, and a special thank you to my out-of-town readers for all the post-Hurricane well wishes.
Now that the storm has passed and clean up is complete, it's back to business as usual in Charleston. November and December tend to be active real estate months around here, so we at William Means are gearing up to finish the year strong.
Best,
Leize Gaillard
William Means Real Estate
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Hurricane Matthew: Image Gallery
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We are all happy that Charleston got off relatively easy in the recent storm. But... it still made for a few interesting days and several days of clean up for those impacted by the storm surge. Here are some images from folks on the ground...
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| #contractorhusband: Ben takes a sweet tea break from boarding up our house (and our other house, and several active project sites, and his workshop).
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| Storm in action at the Pitt Street Bridge in Mount Pleasant, looking towards Sullivans Island. Photo courtesy of Ben Buckley-Green.
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| Samson and I watch the storm.
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| Mid-storm, I received this live shot from my parents who were weathering the storm downtown on South Battery. Thankfully, the storm surge subsided within 2 days.
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| King Street looking towards the Battery. Photo courtesy of Ellie Gray.
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| Post-storm debris in Meeting Street South of Broad. Photo courtesy of Ellie Gray.
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| Split oak tree on Center Street in Mount Pleasant. Photo courtesy of Ben Buckley-Green.
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| Stunning post-storm sky over Charleston Harbor, from the Pitt Street Bridge in Mount Pleasant.
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| Open for business just days after the storm! Local businesses like @vieuxtermpscharleston on King Street barely skipped a beat. Photo courtesy of Natalie Taylor for Vieuxtemps.
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| Buddies. Happy everyone is safe!
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Buying in Flood Zone X: What's on the Market Now?
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Not surprisingly, major weather events like Hurricane Matthew tend to increase buyers' interest in avoiding flood-prone areas. Much like I shared last fall after the major rains of October 2015, I thought now would be a great time to highlight some of my favorite Charleston neighborhoods that sit primarily in Flood Zone X.
Of course, any discussion of homes in Flood Zone X (or, colloquially, "not in a flood zone"), must come with a caveat: Flood zones are subject to change, and those in the real estate industry are expecting changes to FEMA flood maps in the coming year(s).
That said, here are a few of my favorite Charleston neighborhoods where many, if not most, of the homes are currently zoned as X.**
I'On, Mount Pleasant
Average Home Sale Price in last 12 months: $1,092,722
Old Mount Pleasant (aka Osceola Heights), Mount Pleasant
Average Home Sale Price in last 12 months: $498,194
Park Circle, North Charleston
Average Home Sale Price in last 12 months: $237,667
**Note: Buyers are always encouraged to always double check the flood zone for a particular property rather than assume the flood zone based on surrounding homes. Even largely "X" areas can have small pockets of higher-risk zones.
Curious about flood zones?
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Special Exhibition: Guggenheim at the Gibbes
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Eighty years after they were first exhibited, works from the Guggenheim collection return to Charleston for a special show, on view now through January 15, 2017.
From the Gibbes: In 1936 the Gibbes Museum of Art presented the first formal exhibition of Solomon R. Guggenheim's collection of modern art. Featuring works by Marc Chagall, Vasily Kan
dinsky, and Fernand Leger, among many others, the show brought international attention to Charleston. In 1938 the Gibbes again presented Guggenheim's collection.
Now, eighty years after the first exhibition, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Gibbes Museum of Art have come together to revisit this important intersection in our institutional histories with Realm of the Spirit: Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection and the Gibbes Museum of Art. Organized by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, Realm of the Spirit features thirty-six masterworks presented in the original exhibitions by artists such as Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Fernand Leger, Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay, Amedeo Modigliani, and Georges Seurat. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities.
Learn more and buy tickets here.
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