• Beaufort Co. Council votes to help fund new USCB Bluffton convocation center,Aaron  Dixon

    Beaufort Co. Council votes to help fund new USCB Bluffton convocation center

    BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) - Beaufort County Council voted Monday night to provide more than $11 million toward a planned 5,000-seat convocation center at the University of South Carolina Beaufort’s Bluffton campus, a major component of the university’s long-discussed Sandshark 20/20 project.The d

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  • Housing needs a fifth place. It’s how builders design belonging,Scott Finfer

    Housing needs a fifth place. It’s how builders design belonging

    Let me say something that might make a few developers roll their eyes so hard they pull a muscle. Housing needs a fifth place. Not another splash pad. Not another pickleball court. Not another “resort-style amenity center” with furniture nobody uses. A fifth place. Here’s a quick tutorial on Ray Old

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  • Hail risk to homes is on par on with major hurricane threats,HousingWire Automation

    Hail risk to homes is on par on with major hurricane threats

    More than 43.5 million U.S. properties are at moderate or greater risk from hail damage, representing about $17.84 trillion in reconstruction cost value, according to Cotality’s 2026 Severe Convective Storm Risk Report released Tuesday. The report finds that hailstorms are emerging as one of the mos

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