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Historic Charleston Foundation’s Festival of Houses and Gardens

Saida and Caroline recently sat down with Leigh Handal of HCF to find out about all of the exciting events surrounding the 63rd annual Spring Festival of Houses and Gardens. Tours vary daily and run from March 18-April 17, 2010. Experience some of Charleston’s finest historic homes and gardens-some of which are not normally open to the pubic. Check out our interview with Leigh for highlights of this year’s tours. Tickets may be purchased by clicking the second link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV9mjiDzA1M

http://www.historiccharleston.org/news_events/festival.html

March 22nd, 2010

The Elements of the Perfect Charleston Party

Mitchell CrosbyIn anticipation of the upcoming Wine and Food Festival, keystocharlstonrealestate.com talked with our good friend Mitchell Crosby of JMC Charleston Event Planning about the “must have” elements for the perfect Charleston Party and the exciting events scheduled for the 5th annual Charleston Wine and Food Festival.

This is the first of many videos that we will be featuring about Charleston events, people, homes for sale and insider peeks into our favorite things about living here so check back often.

If you have ideas for future guests, events or a favorite Charleston pastime that we can cover, please let us know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yBImagEli8

February 10th, 2010

More on SC Property Tax Reform

Property taxes and property tax reform are on the minds of many Charlestonians.  “Why are our taxes so high?” we hear everywhere we go.  South Carolina’s legislators are in the process of creating property tax reform that will help ease the burden on homeowners, particularly those who have bought in recent years, and those entities that benefit from tax money, i.e. schools and government.  It’s a continuing struggle and the S.C. Association of Realtors thinks that the most recent legislative proposal didn’t go far enough in helping business and homeowners.  Read more at  http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/jan/22/realtors-withdraw-support-for-tax-plan/

January 26th, 2010