Tag: housing supply
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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 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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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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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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Mauldin Clears 500-Home ‘Missing Middle’ Project as Upstate Buyers Chase Affordability
MAULDIN, S.C. — Mauldin City Council has cleared the way for one of the largest single housing approvals along the Fork Shoals corridor in years, voting 4-3 to rezone roughly 33 acres for Cottage Green, a nearly 500-home community mixing cottages, duplexes and garden-style apartments. Developer HMF Americana says it intends to break ground before…
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Zoning Moratoriums Cut Pickens County Housing Production by a Third as Growth Shifts to Outlying Upstate Counties
EASLEY, S.C. — New-home construction in Pickens County fell by roughly a third in 2025 and has kept sliding into 2026, as a nearly year-long moratorium on new subdivisions and larger minimum lot sizes in both Easley and the county have squeezed housing supply just as the Upstate’s population keeps growing, according to building permit…
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Greenville Apartment Boom Meets Its Ceiling as Construction Pipeline Thins and Rents Keep Climbing
GREENVILLE, S.C. — After several years of heavy multifamily construction, Greenville’s apartment market is shifting into a tighter, slower-growth phase in 2026, with vacancy holding near 5.8% and rents up 4.2% year-over-year even as the pipeline of new units shrinks, according to a Colliers market update. The tightening comes on the heels of a wave…
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