Southern Living taps Lowcountry home as 2024 icon; $9.25M sale sets Crescent record (2024)

A Johns Island residence has been tapped by Southern Living as the dwelling to ponder and daydream about this year.

This year’s 2024 Idea House is a 4,000-square-foot farm-style spread in the Kiawah River community with waterfront views and a whole lot of local input.

Southern Living has been featuring Idea Homes for 20 years, selecting a single property annually that showcases the work of local interior designers, landscape architects, builders, woodworkers and more to inspire renovation ideas for Southern dream homes.

The home will incorporate the work of various local creatives, including Charleston-based Andrea Cayetano-Jefferson of Gullah Sweetgrass Baskets and textile designer Rebecca Atwood. Other local partners working on the project are builder Dillard-Jones, architect MHK Architecture, interior designer Allison Elebash Interiors and landscape architect DesignWorks.

The home will be available to tour from August to December, and tickets will go on sale in June. The home will also be featured on SouthernLiving.com and in the September 2024 issue.

Record sale

A waterfront property with a $9.25 million price tag has set a record for an upscale Charleston neighborhood west of the Ashley.

The transaction for 15 Broughton Road marked the highest-priced home sale in The Crescent off Folly Road. The 8,141-square-foot three-level dwelling has six bedrooms, 6½ bathrooms, a deep-water dock and a pool.

The new owner was identified in public property records as 4H House Trust, which listed an address in Knoxville, Tenn. The sellers were Donald and Darwinna Wathnes, who were represented by The Cassina Group.

A permanent place

NewSpring Church has purchased a North Charleston shopping center for a future relocation.

The church, which started in Anderson and has grown to 13 campuses around South Carolina, acquired Plantation Center at 8440 Dorchester Road for $10 million.

The sale closed April 30, according to Dorchester County property records.

Suzanne Swift, a NewSpring representative, said the lease at the congregation’s nearby location on Ashley Phosphate Road expired this year.

“We’re excited to be transitioning into a permanent space within the community,” Swift said.

The shopping center formerly was anchored by a Bi-Lo supermarket and, more recently, call center operator Iqor.

The previous owner was CCP-Bruiser LLC.

Beaufort buy

A division of The Beach Co. helped broker the $11 million sale of a 454.5-acre master-planned community in Beaufort County.

The Charleston-based real estate company represented Drapac Capital Partners in the sale of Heyward Place to HP Land Development LLC of Bluffton on April 30.

The property previously changed lands in 2013 for the “mispriced” amount of less than $1.7 million, according to William Miller, senior director at Atlanta-based Drapac.

Miller added in a written statement that the sale 11 years ago “was well-below replacement cost, and offered a unique picturesque development opportunity as a high-end waterfront master-planned community. The Hilton Head/Beaufort submarket has long been a key destination for retirees, and the demographic-driven demand for communities like Heyward Point is only increasing.”