Home Matters! The Cobb Group Blog - March, 2023

❤️ Real Estate Crush of the Week: 42 Sedgewick Avenue

Have you ever dreamt of having your own Carriage House? With less maintenance and upkeep? With unobstructed backyard nature views from your Carolina room and oversized screened lanai?

Then this week’s crush is for you. You’re welcome.

Located in Hampton Hall, this gated community home is a beauty!

• 3 beds and 3 baths and over 2,500 SF of living space
• first floor master suite with a sitting area
• vaulted ceiling in the Great Room
• gas fireplace!
• kitchen has a gas cooktop, which to me is a must
• double wall ovens for holiday entertaining made easy
• the lanai...mic drop

These one of a kind homes don’t come up for sale often. So let's go and see it before it sells.

42 Sedgewick Avenue

Hampton Hall l…

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One Stop Culinary Destination

Michael Anthony’s Market Cafe, a Great Local Restaurant and One-Stop Culinary Destination

Michael Anthony's on Hilton Head is known for its classic Italian cuisine, featuring dishes such as pasta, seafood, chicken, and veal. The restaurant offers a cozy, intimate atmosphere, and many customers have praised the restaurant for its exceptional service and attention to detail. The Market Cafe at Michael Anthony’s Cucina Italiana is next to the main restaurant. It really delivers as a one-stop culinary destination. It brings the same great service, food, and quality as its sister restaurant but is a cozier more intimate space across the breezeway. It has more of a relaxed trattoria ambiance highlighted with candles and a pleasingly less expensive…

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❤️ Real Estate Crush of the Week: 501 Center Drive West

This house...the possibilities are endless. I LOVE that this house can be whatever you want it to be; primary home, rental home, vacation home...whatever you want. Even better, the home has separate entrances, driveways, and living spaces. 

What else?:

• you can't miss the indoor heated pool room - the pool is huge
• the backyard is a private setting for relaxing and entertaining
• a living and dining space that ties the whole house together
• your mother-in-law can stay as long as she wants and be in her own space with her own front door
• work-from-home spaces on each side of the house
• located in the great community of Mossy Oaks

Let's go check it out today. Call us.

501 Center Drive West

Mossy Oaks l…

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How To Navigate A Thrift Store And Where To Go Thrift Shopping In Bluffton, SC

Thrift shopping is a great way to score high-end clothing, shoes, accessories, household items, toys, furniture, baby items, and more at well below retail prices. Who doesn’t love a good deal? Beyond just great savings and fun finds, buying used instead of new also helps the environment by reducing the amount of trash we produce and preserving the natural resources that go into manufacturing, packaging, transporting, and ultimately disposing of new goods.

What Is a Thrift Shop?

Thrift shops are typically stores that raise money for charities and non-profit organizations. These kinds of stores depend on donations from people around their communities. People can make donations at drop off locations around a city.

Some thrift shops also provide…

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Moving with Kids: A Guide to Minimize Stress

You’ve found your dream house: the perfect place to raise your family! It’s a beautiful new-build with a big yard, friendly neighbors, nice parks, and great schools. You’ve finished all the headaches of closing on the home and selling your current place, now all you have to do is survive moving with your kids.

Between packing, hauling, and adjusting to a new environment, moving to your dream house can quickly turn into a nightmare for you and your family. Use these tips to make things go as smoothly as possible and keep your little campers happy throughout your move.

How to Tell Your Kids They’re Moving

First things first, you have to tell your kids about the move. While you may be worried about settling into a new neighborhood and making…

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The Best Places to Live in Bluffton, South Carolina. But Seriously, Every Neighborhood Is A Delight

Have you ever experienced living in a coastal village? A place where the river estuary carries you through a variety of flora and fauna, leading to the heart of the town where distinct elements of coastal village architecture can be found? All this can be experienced in one of South Carolina’s best lowcountry coastal villages, the town of Bluffton, SC.

Located within the heart of the beautiful Beaufort County, Bluffton, with a population of approximately 32,000 (2021), has a real small town charm and is one of the friendliest places to live in the state. It is consistently rated as one of the top towns in the lowcountry area. Ideally situated between historic Hilton Head and the trendy city of Savannah, Georgia, residents of Bluffton have an…

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Do You Know the History of Bluffton, South Carolina?

Nestled on a high bluff overlooking the May River, Bluffton originally served as a home to native American tribes. They fished, hunted, and gathered oysters in the waters throughout the South Carolina Lowcountry.

The Yemassee Wars

Around 1670, Lord Cardass, leader of the nearby Scottish settlement in Beaufort, invited the Yemassee people to establish settlements in the area. The Yemassee were a multi-ethnic combination of several remnant Indian groups including the Guale LaTama, Apalachee, Coweta and Cusseta Creek, and others. By 1715, the population of the Yemassees had grown to over 1,200 nhabiting ten villages in today’s Bluffton and the surrounding Port Royal Sound area.

Based along the Savannah River, the tribe had developed ties with…

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How is today’s Lowcountry real estate market different than the 2008 market?

If you recall, the real estate crash of 2008 resulted in approximately a 30-35% reduction in housing value across all of the gated communities in the Lowcountry. There had been a “run up” of prices built on a panic buying of “flip” buyers owning many properties outside their financial capabilities. Banks were lending money like it was water, and when the world stopped in September 2008 banks and locals were caught with an enormous amount of useless debt and foreclosures were everywhere. The irresponsible buying and lending resulted in the collapse of a glass house of poor real estate decisions. Fortunately, most communities recovered their value over the years and recently escalation has been through the roof. What’s different this time as the real estate…

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Patio Puppy Pizza Party

Around Town

Your dog called and you have plans for Saturday.

If you've ever been to Old Town, then you know that bringing your pup is basically required! This Saturday at Local Pie is no exception. Party with your best friend on the patio and help raise money for the Palmetto Animal League. There will be Happy Hour drinks and food will be available along with pup cups and treats! Campfire Tyler will be providing live music, and on-site donations will be accepted.

Click here for more information.

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❤️ Real Estate Crush of the Week: 4 Tybee Island Court

There are two things I love to see when I'm looking for homes for my clients; tall ceilings and a home on a cul-de-sac. 4 Tybee Island Court has both. 

Need more:

• lagoon views
• gorgeous chef's kitchen
• love the backsplash
• generous sized island that seats 4
• open layout
• wall of windows
• gated golf community of Island West

Let's check this one out together. Call me today.

4 Tybee Island Court

Island West l Bluffton

Offered at $680,000

Listed by David Simcox with Realty One Group Lowcountry

What is our Crush of the Week you ask? ─ Definition: A "Crush" is a brief and intense infatuation of someone or something. Since we're Realtors, we "Crush" on houses! Each week we highlight a home that is…

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