Myrtle Beach Real Estate Market is booming. The number of gated neighborhoods and planned communities being developed is mushrooming, with choices in all price-ranges, views and other amenities.

Long considered the ultimate group golf vacation destination, Myrtle Beach has recently been ranked as #2 in the country by U.S. Housing Markets in its “Hotness” Index. One of the 15 fastest growing areas in the nation, Myrtle Beach’s population has grown by over 40 percent in the last decade and is expected to double again in the next 20 years. Obviously the great vacation opportunities of Myrtle Beach have been trumpeted for years, but the secret is now out that if the Myrtle Beach area is so great a-week-at-a-time, imagine how spectacular it would be EVERY week.

With the long-entrenched emphasis on tourist travel, gated golf communities have been slower in coming than in some other Great Golf Communities. But if you know one thing about people on the Grand Strand, it’s that they don’t like finishing 2nd to anyone at anything. The number of gated neighborhoods and planned communities being developed is mushrooming, with choices in all price-ranges, views and other amenities. The most obvious amenity is the coastal climate, with average winter highs in the upper-50’s and thanks to the sea breezes, summer highs rarely top 90-degrees. During the summer months, the ocean water along the Grand Strand is about 20-degrees warmer than along the New York beaches. Myrtle Beach can also offer something Florida communities cannot—seasons.

Myrtle Beach stopped being a “beach town” a long time ago. Its combination of services and amenities ranks with many, much larger communities. Yet its easygoing Southern ways and comfortable year-round climate have carved a singular niche in the market of great golf communities.