Category: Greenville
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Upstate SC Housing Supply Swells Past Four Months as Market Tips Toward Buyers
Active listings in the Greater Greenville market hit a two-year high in July, pushing months of supply to 4.1 and giving buyers new leverage as mortgage rates hold near 6.3%.
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Greenville County’s New Moratorium on Cluster Housing Squeezes an Already Tight Supply Pipeline
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Greenville County Council has halted new cluster-housing applications for a year, pulling one of the region’s more land-efficient and moderately priced development types out of the pipeline just as the Upstate’s housing supply struggles to keep pace with demand. The 12-month moratorium, approved at third reading by an 11-0 vote with one…
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Greenville Planners Advance Largest Annexation in Years, Bringing Woodruff Road Retail Corridor Into City Limits
GREENVILLE, S.C. — The Greenville Planning Commission voted unanimously Aug. 6 to advance a proposal annexing roughly 135 acres along Woodruff Road into the city, teeing up what would be the largest single annexation Greenville has approved since the Cherrydale area in 2024 and adding a heavily trafficked retail corridor to the city’s tax rolls…
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Auro Hotels to Transform Greenville’s Bowater Building Into South Carolina’s First JW Marriott
GREENVILLE, S.C. — A landmark office tower overlooking Falls Park is set to become South Carolina’s first JW Marriott, as Greenville-based Auro Hotels unveiled plans Thursday to convert the Bowater Building into a 335-room luxury hotel anchoring the city’s emerging Falls Park Conference District. The proposed hotel at 55 E. Camperdown Way will mark Auro…
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Greenville Breaks Ground on 54-Unit Senior Housing as State Freezes Key Affordable Housing Tax Break
GREENVILLE, S.C. — City leaders and affordable housing developers broke ground Wednesday on Southernside West, a 54-unit senior apartment community that will rise on West Washington Street just west of downtown, even as a new state law threatens to slow the pipeline of similar projects across the Upstate. The $19 million development, a partnership between…
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As Mortgage Rates Hold Near 6.3%, Upstate Builders Sweeten Deals to Keep New Homes Moving
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Homebuilders across the Upstate are leaning harder on rate buydowns and closing-cost credits this summer as mortgage rates hover near 6.3% to 6.5%, a sign that supply and demand across Greenville and Spartanburg counties are pulling in opposite directions even as the region keeps adding rooftops. In Greenville, the market has tilted…
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Greenville Chases a 20,000-Unit Housing Gap With Wave of Affordable Development
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Greenville County’s affordable housing shortfall has grown to an estimated 20,000 units, according to the Greenville Housing Fund, even as the region posts some of the fastest population and job growth in the Southeast. The widening gap is reshaping the supply side of the Upstate’s housing market, driving a new wave of…
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Chicago Firm Buys 157,000-Square-Foot Industrial Building Near Greenville, Points to Strong Warehouse Demand
PIEDMONT, S.C. — Brennan Investment Group, a Chicago-based private real estate investment firm, has acquired a 157,412-square-foot Class A industrial building in Piedmont, expanding a Carolinas portfolio that has grown quickly on the strength of Upstate warehouse demand. The property sits on about 11 acres within Exchange Logistics Park, a industrial development straddling the Anderson…
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Ace Hardware, Whataburger, 7 Brew Fill Long-Vacant Storefronts Along Greer’s Wade Hampton Corridor
GREER, S.C. — A wave of new retailers and restaurants is filling long-vacant and underused parcels along Wade Hampton Boulevard, the four-lane commercial spine that carries an estimated 33,000 vehicles a day between Greenville and Spartanburg through the heart of Greer. Ace Hardware has begun moving inventory into 1100 W. Wade Hampton, a space that…
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Greenville County New-Home Permits Climb Past 2024 and 2025 Levels Through Midyear
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Greenville County issued 1,368 permits for new homes in the first six months of 2026, outpacing the same stretch in both 2024 and 2025 and signaling that Upstate homebuilders are ramping up production even as the region’s rental and ownership markets pull in different directions. County code compliance records show new-home permits…
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