[Music] Hello everyone and Welcome to another episode of Selling Greenville your favorite real estate podcast here in Greenville South Carolina I'm your host as always Stan realtor right here in Greenville South Carolina ready to help you with any of your real estate needs in this area you can find all of my contact information in the show notes in the description of the show that is how you can reach reach out to me reach out to me at any time don't feel bad if I can't respond right away I won't I'll respond when I can but I'm not one of these realtors that checks out at 6 p.m. on Friday and then says hey I'll get back with you on Monday morning at 88 that's not the way I run my business so don't feel bad if you need to reach out to me after hours on weekends whatever I work all the time and please if you like this show please subscribe to it please leave a five-star rating please leave a short little review there's only a couple of apps that allow you to do that but thankfully the vast majority of my subscribers are using those apps which are Apple podcasts and Spotify so please do that when you get the opportunity today we are going to wrap up our minseries on Greenville area overviews and we're going to cover a lot of ground in this episode because there's if if you haven't noticed there's a lot of areas that we have haven't talked about yet so we need to jump right in and talk about for starters the area of Taylor Taylor South Carolina for the past year had a median sale of 310,000 with a low of $80,000 and a high of 1.9 million so that's very affordable that's actually right pretty close to what the median for Greenville as a whole was now I've had people ask me what downtown tailor is like listen there is is not a downtown tailor there is it's just not I I guess I should say it this way when we're talking about downtown areas like Greer like Simpsonville like traveler's rest they have a distinct defined downtown Taylor just does not have anything comparable to that to these other downtowns that we have in Greenville County now that's not to say there's nothing to do in kind of the the downtown is area of tailor they recently converted the Taylor's Mill into a hipster cool little area with a brewery ax throwing CrossFit I think there's even a church that meets there and I mean that place is it's not going to be for everyone you're you're kind of like driving through a neighborhood and then all of a sudden you're at this what looks like an abandoned Mill massive massive abandoned building but it's not abandoned they they've been converting a lot of it into these cool little hipster things to do and and and as it's really neat it's it's a place that a lot of people go every week for different things and tailor as a whole is very Central to a lot of things in Greenville County and so having that there is is really nice for people that are just wanting to that that live in tailers that are just wanting to hop over for for CrossFit or you know want to get a drink and do some ax throwing or or whatever you know just for a little date night or guys get together or whatever the case may be it it's a nice option but generally speaking Taylor's is not super commercial and that's why it doesn't really have a true downtown area tailor is generally houses and churches there are some decent parks nearby and the Pavilion has an ice rank which is cool and some other things to do but ultimately people aren't moving to tailor because of all the things to do for the most part what's great about tailor is that it's pretty affordable by the standards of Greenville County and it's just close to everything I've mentioned before that East Side Greenville and the west side of Greer are convenient to everything well guess what Taylor is literally wedged right in between those areas while also being substantially cheaper than both of them the west side of Greer as we talked about before had a medium price point of 320,000 actually we didn't talk about that because I I accidentally left that off so that west side of Greer that kind of Riverside School District part of Greer had a median price point of 320,000 East Side Greenville had a medium price point of 360,000 but tailor is only 310,000 despite literally being wedged in those areas so why is it cheaper well there's a variety of factors but a lot of it comes down to in my opinion two things and you there you could probably debate whether these two things are the two things or whether there are other factors or whatever the case may be but this is just my opinion from having been a realtor to a lot of people who have looked in this area at a lot of homes over the years first off the homes tend to be a bit older and smaller than the other areas so you get a lot of brick ranches in this area there are some newer subdivisions but in general when you're driving through tailor a lot of the homes are you're not going to find a lot of 2500t homes that have been built in the past years it's kind of like the polar opposite of Five Forks for instance that we talked about in last week's episode and a lot of these homes have been inhabited by the same people for years you you've got a lot of the elderly population that just haven't moved they they like that area they know that they're not going to be able to afford to move anywhere else that is anywhere near there and so they stay in their house for a very very long time and then eventually perhaps they pass away or perhaps they reach a point where they need to to get their money out of the house and so they put on the market and there's a lot of deferred maintenance that the new purchaser has to handle hence the price point being cheaper that's my opinion having having sold a lot of homes in tailor as to why primarily it it it is cheaper than some of these other areas I would also say I think part of what plays a factor into this is that Taylor also doesn't really have an identity East Side Greenville and Riverside School District part of Greer get such positive feedback because of the award-winning schools that both of them have the variety of grocery stores the the good restaurants Etc and so Taylor kind of gets lost in the shuffle but it's right in the middle of all of those things and so it's not like it's inconvenient to any of those things and as far as schools I'm not aware off the top of my head of any tailor specific schools that have won any awards but I have had a lot of clients over the years that have have had children in the Taylor schools that Rave about those schools and again with its centrality to everything there really isn't an issue with access and grocery stores shopping or anything like that now I will say there's is a major difference you feel a major difference if you're in tailor south of Wade Hampton Boulevard versus north of it north of it north of of that Highway tends to be a bit cheaper because it's not quite as convenient to things as the southern part of tailor but in general some of the best bargains in real estate in my opinion for the upstate of South Carolina come in the Tailor's area particularly if you don't need a large house since most of the housing and tailor is going to be less than 2,000 square ft from tailor we have I'm going to transition very quickly over to Malden now Malden the reason why I'm doing Malden on the heels of of tailor is that it's an extremely similar area to tailor in my opinion an area that hasn't really had a a clear identity but it's super convenient to basically everywhere in the upstate and it has a lot of smaller homes built 40 to 50 years ago the median in Malden was even cheaper the the median price point for housing in malen was 293,000 with a low of 1435 and a high of 85 850,000 now that's a bargain $293,000 is well below the other medians we've looked at it's well below the Greenville median that is a really nice price for the upstate and the main difference between Malden and tailor Beyond simply their location is that Malden actually does have something kind of resembling a downtown now it's not a walkable downtown by any stretch of the imagination it's not a part of downtown that you would go for the experience you know you're not going to go there to look at art galleries or anything like that but it's a great area for fast food grocery stores chain restaurants and it it actually has a few good little mom and pop restaurants as well particularly of the ethnic variety so I really like downtown if you want to call it that I don't think anyone calls it downtown Malden but the little downtown is the central part of Malden offers a lot for those that live in Malden it just makes shopping for basic stuff or for fast food or whatever very convenient but even if you don't find what you're looking for in that area Malden is extremely convenient to Woodruff Road not to mention that it butts right up against I 385 so you can get anywhere quickly like I said Malden is extremely convenient as far as parks are concerned there are some small parks in malen but really Lake kesty Nature Preserve is right there and that is really a fantastic option if you want to do go-karts if you want to do arcades that type of stuff Frankie Fun Park which is a cool little place that offers that go-karts arcades that kind of stuff it's right nearby right off of Woodruff Road just a few minutes from Malden so just the accessibility of Malden makes up for the lack of things to do right within malen and again we have some some more affordable housing than we have in some other areas of the upstate despite it being very convenient to a lot of things and a lot of that I think is similar to Taylor from the standpoint of a lot of older smaller brick ranches and and those style of houses although there's a lot of subdivisions in newer subdivisions in malen as well but also the lack of a clear identity definitely hurts Malden but it helps you if you're looking to move and wanting something more affordable Malden has some things to offer now I will say I've seen really a transition the past year past two years that people have started to realize that I mean that 293,000 median is dramatically higher than it was three years ago so people are starting to realize oh wait Malden is really a much nicer area than we've given it credit for it's it's offers a lot for the a lot of bang for the buck and so it's starting to Garner more attention than it has in previous years so beware next on the list and it might surprise some people that it's taking me this long to discuss this area but next on the list is traveler's rest and people are going to be surprised by that because traveler's rest is probably is the only other at least in my opinion downtown that compares to Greenville Greer and Simpsonville and so it's a very desirable spot for a lot of people but that being said I looked at Travelers Rest having its own episode and I just determined that it just made sense to group it in with some of these others for a variety of reasons so the median for travelers rest of the past year was 3 165,00 with a low of 55,000 and a high of 4.625 million if you're not a local we locally call traveler's rest TR and TR is a lot more than what you see on a map if you're just looking at TR you know just on Google Maps it looks like a small area but geographically it's one of the largest areas in the upstate with TR addresses that go all the way up to the North Carolina border I mean it's it's truly crazy how far you can drive north and still be in traveler's rest now unlike Malden and Taylor's TR has a very clear identity and this is one thing that is cool about it is that it is an outdoorsy Town in or at least around the mountains so when you think of tailor you're thinking outdoorsy and you're thinking near or in mountains those are kind of the the two distinctive features of TR and those Northern sections of TR are very much in the mountains and it's really beautiful up there with a a lot of great areas to hike and bike and you're not far from some areas that are really really fantastic to hike and bike in such as you know Panther toown Valley and areas like that now housing really varies dramatically in this area there's not as many production built neighborhoods as we find in some other areas but there are some and there are plenty of older neighborhoods with houses built on land that are not in subdivisions now I'd be remissed if I didn't talk about downtown TR this has really changed dramatically the past 10 years I mean nobody was clamoring to go to downtown TR 15 years ago but a lot of it has to do with one thing we've talked about this in the past but it was Greenville converting the old railroad tracks that made up the swamp rabbit railroad Trail railroad track into a paved biking trail that retained the name the Swamp Rabbit Trail the trail begins or ends depending on how you think of it in downtown TR and then it goes straight through downtown Greenville and and just continue south from there so for many people the trail essentially ends in TR because a lot of people are starting in Downtown Greenville and then biking up to tr and then and then back and so what that means is that the people that are done biking or or half done biking once they get to downtown TR which if I remember correctly I think that the it I think it's about a 10m bike from downtown Greenville to downtown TR and by the time you do that you really need to eat and drink or at least I do I I know that you've got these these bikers that will bike for days upon days seemingly without eating or drinking I don't understand that but if if I'm biking 10 miles and I've done that bike before actually funny story I did this I I've done it one time I've done from Downtown Greenville to tr and then back now if you know me I'm not I am in the dad stage of life so exercise doesn't come first and foremost in my life as it should well I'm not saying it should be first and foremost it doesn't have the priority that it should let me say it that way but I can grind out a 20m bike like I'm not in such bad shape that I can't do that there are repercussions for the remainder of the week if I do that but I can I can grind it out but because I don't bike very much I did this bike and Downtown Greenville and TR have some great bike rental options including ebikes if you're into that kind of thing it's not really necessary if you're doing the Swamp Rabbit Trail because it's so level but that is an option for you but I thought okay here's what I'm going to do I'm going to bike from downtown Greenville to downtown TR and then back and then I'm going to grabb a bite to eat and something to I I might grab something to drink in TR but then I'm going to come back to Greenville and then grab a bite to eat in Greenville and normally that would be no problem for me I mean I I do intermittent fasting and all of that I don't have a problem not eating for an extended period of time that bike from downtown Greenville to downtown TR like after after I was done with that 10 miles I was like I have to eat something I did not I was not going to make it back to to Downtown Greenville biking all that way without something in my stomach and going to tr it's a slight uphill climb I mean it's very level but it's ever so slightly uphill and then coming back it's a little bit easier it's ever so slightly downhill coming from TR to to Greenville so that's nice if you're going from Greenville to tr you're getting the hard part out of the way early long story short TR because of it being that middle or Final Destination for so many people after biking has a bunch of great mom and popop restaurants and some Boutique places to shop it's really become a little mini destination all of its own and that's why I'm spending so much time talking about it because a lot of people go to downtown TR just for that there's plenty of grocery store options and since we're talking about a place known to be outdoorsy there's plenty of parks as as well in the the TR area now outside of downtown I've already mentioned that there are some very mountainous areas some large tracks of land Etc there's not much else out there so either you want to live fairly close to downtown TR or you need to be prepared to commute to get to just about anything and I mean if you want to go from the northern part of TR to like wooder Road it's going to take you a while and and remember wooder road is one of the main shopping corridors of Greenville so you just have to to be aware of that TR is a little bit even though it has a lot to offer it's a little bit cut off from the rest of Greenville County now I'd like to give a little shout out to hotel domestique which is a very Boutique I think they only have like like 15 rooms or something like that but it's a very Boutique Hotel in the northern part of TR owned by the most famous cyclist in US history George hopy and it's it's really a unique incredible Boutique Hotel experience set in the mountains that kind of combines two very interesting things it combines a look of Tuscan Italy which you wouldn't expect in this area of Greenville County along with a cycling theme they even have a bicycle concierge on site and they have different different routes that you can do depending on what level of difficulty of biking that you are are wanting to do oop sorry hit my mic there for a second it's a great station option for those that are interested in that my wife and I did it for our anniversary this past year and we only stayed we only spent one night there and it's not cheap by the way it's it's you you pay for it but they've got a great restaurant right there and like I said biking a lot of fun they have a great saltwater pool right there and and the grounds are beautiful it's just a a really nice experience that you would never guess is there so I want to give them a quick little shout out the only major downside again that I've said about TR is that it's just not close to some other parts of the upstate I'm mapped downtown TR to Costco which if you've listened to the show you know I'm a big fan of Costco which is on the the far edge of Woodruff Road and not the not the not actually the the end of wood Road that's closer to to tr and it said it was a 34-minute drive at 5:00 p.m. so that is not great having to drive and and honestly I would if I guessed it's probably going to take longer than that this time of year but if you're not a big shopper and you love outdoor stuff and the mountains TR is a great option and it's been a very popular destination for a lot of people for the past 5 to 10 years next on the list here pedmont and powersville the median price point in pedmont and powersville for the past year was 297,000 with a low of 33,000 I don't know what that was that was probably a sha and a high of $2 million now pedmont kind of like what Greer is with Greenville and and Spartanburg pedmont is half in Greenville County and half in Anderson County with the Saluda River dividing between the two and the Greenville County side tends to be a lot more expensive than the Anderson County side although it varies and as you've already heard I said the medium was 297,000 so that's a decent chunk below what the Greenville median is which has at least as of this recording because I don't yet as of this recording have the December numbers which will be for November as of this recording the the median is still hovering above $300,000 for Greenville County as a whole now pedmont used to be a honestly a very depressed area with a lot of distressed housing but it has improved quite a bit in recent years and my understanding is that there are significant plans for improving downtown pedmont and making it somewhat of a destination but it's not quite there yet if you're going into downtown pedmont really the the only thing I can think of that you would do is kayaking in the Saluda River and there is a company that offers kayak rentals in that area that's really the primary thing that you would would be doing that I can think of right now but in the future there's a mill there I I understand that that the mill has been sold to a developer and they're planning to to do some cool stuff with it so I feel like that is great for pedmont as a whole there's not a lot of great options for grocery stores unless you're in the powersville section of the city which has a little drag with several chain restaurants and Stores and and so pville is the part of pedmont you want to live in if you need convenience to chain restaurants and stores there also aren't a ton of Park options like I mentioned you get into downtown pedmont there's you know some areas where you can hop into the Saluda River in a kayak you don't want to swim in there I don't think that that water is safe for swimming don't do it but this and General is why pedmont is cheaper than much of the upstate you have to drive to get to various amenities but unlike Travers rest where you also oftentimes have to drive to some of these amenities and and some parts of Simpsonville and whatnot pedmont I'm not trying to to trash on pedmont at all but it just kind of lacks some of the beauty of some of these other rural areas of the upstate to make up for the the fact that it's kind of parts of it are out in the middle of nowhere people are not going to pedmont because it's like oh this is so beautiful there's mountains and all of that it does not have that now I do think that some of that is coming like I said there is becoming more of a focus on pedmont is becoming more of an interesting location for a lot of people for developers so I think in the future that there is some good potential there but it hasn't yet hasn't yet gotten there however pedmont does have one very very big thing going for it and that is the ren schools have won multiple Awards over the years and that has been a major driver of development and traffic in this area so a lot I get a lot of people that are like hey I'm interested in the ren School District that has really helped pedmont and that's something that you can look into if if you're interested in schools but overall I don't know many people who start out wanting specifically to go to pedmont but some people find that it's a really affordable way to get into the upstate right if you're on a tight budget pedmont could be a good option for you to just get into the upstate maybe build some Equity this is probably an area that's going to rapidly appreciate if I had to guess because that tends to be what happens typically the the cheaper areas of the upstate appreciate at a more rapid rate than the more expensive areas and so that's likely to happen in the pedma area and then it's kind of a way to get your put in the door in the upstate maybe a few years from down the road sell and then go somewhere maybe that that you would prefer to go to but I think ultimately I'm very bullish about pedmont long term because I see that that there's been a lot of changes the past four to five years in that area and I know that more changes are coming so I think it's going to be a great place in the upstate for years to come moving on from pedmont powersville I feel like we need to talk about Easley isn't a part of Greenville County but it's very very close I mean it it butts right up against Greenville proper so and and it's a large enough area that I think it's worth bringing up but although I'm not going to spend a ton of time on Easley the medium price point in Easley was 296,000 with a low of 50,000 a high of 1.35 million now generally speaking people that want to move to Easley want to be in the country it is cheaper than Greenville as I already said the medium was 296,000 but it doesn't have anywhere near the amenities that Greenville has outside of downtown easily it's almost entirely rural and for a lot of people that's what appeals to them a lot of people want to keep Easley rural there's an a big anti-development movement going on right now in Easley people are are kind of tired of developers coming in and and putting in subdivisions and so and quite frankly you know I'm saying that and it's kind of crazy to say because I don't feel like there are that many subdivisions in easily but there's enough that has freaked out people over the years now downtown Easley has a cute Main Street and then another drag just south of it where you can find your main big box shopping options so in and near downtown Easley itself you have some some good shopping options when you get into the rural areas of green of Easley it's going to take you a little bit of time but again nobody is moving to a rural area of Easley thinking oh I'm going to get convenient shopping that nobody is moving to Easley unless they want to be kind of in a more rural area generally speaking Easley is a little closer to Clemson than Greenville is and if you know anything about Clemson sports that's the closest thing the upstate has to professional sports franchise we do not have a professional sports team anywhere but Clemson is pretty close to it in terms of fan excitement in terms of of quality of Sports experiences Etc obviously Clemson football and basketball are both huge if you know anything about sports so if you want to attend events like that Easley is not very far relatively speaking from Clemson so that brings it some appeal now similar to pedmont easily is a great option for those who want to move to the upstate but can't necessarily find what they want in their price range or of course as I've already mentioned for those who prefer to be in a more rural area what easily offers that pedmont doesn't besides the much better shopping options and things to do as I've already mentioned with with the Main Street and and the drag south of Main Street is that easily does have some really beautiful mountainous areas particularly as you get further north I already referenced this in in the part about traveler's rest well easily I don't think that Easley goes all the way up to to the North Carolina border but it goes very far north and there are some really really beautiful parts of Northern Easley that if you're into seeing Mountain views and whatnot that's a great option to go to now last but not least and I'm only going to mention this in passing because I Do cover this area as a realtor but I'm but we're not going to discuss it in detail is Spartanburg both the city and the county has a lot of great places to live a lot of great neighborhoods a lot of great things to do in downtown Spartanburg and I generally tend to think of Spartanburg particularly the the city of spart andberg as about 15 to 20 years behind Downtown Greenville and that's but the the good thing about it is that it's not just stuck there so that like 10 years from now it's going to be 25 to 30 years behind Greenville no I see it keeping up with Downtown Greenville and the City of Greenville in a sense it's just it's just kind of permanently 15 to 20 years behind but it's staying that way as Greenville improves Sparaanburg is also improving and there are some really great things to do in downtown Spartanburg for those that want to do that and there are some really great Suburban areas of downtown spart I'm just not going to cover this because this show is called selling Greenville for a reason but I Do cover Spartanburg within my scope within my scope as a realtor and I have even bought and sold homes for myself that I've flipped and whatnot over the years in Spartanburg and so I'm very familiar with the area so I want to make sure that you guys know that I'm not just leaving Spartanburg out because I hate on Spartanburg no I love Spartanburg has a lot of great things to offer I just had to draw the line somewhere for the show I mean we could have got gotten into areas of Pickens and lake kioi and and all these all these other areas but I'm I've felt the need to to stick to the areas that I did so that's it that's it for this episode that's it for the little minseries overviewing the various areas of the upstate I hope this was helpful for you guys and I appreciate all of you my listeners if you need to reach out to me for any of your real estate needs my contact information is in the show notes and I'd appreciate if you're listening to this on Apple podcast or Spotify that you leave a rating five star rating leave a short little review make sure you subscribe to the show so you don't miss future episodes and we will talk again next time [Music]