Connie Dittrich's (cddittrich) Blog

You can't win if you don't play. We hear that all the time when they talk about buying a lottery ticket. Well it's true in so many parts of our lives - the way we interact with others, how rewarding it is when we sit on the floor and play with our kids or grand kids. And how we can reap the benef...

With all the excitement - both positive and negative - about the death of Osama Bin Laden (OBL), it hasn't been easy to focus on real estate or anything for the past few days. Every time I find myself getting into a worksheet with results about housing or looking online for the right home for a b...

If you haven't been to the Avondale section of West Ashley in Charleston, you don't know what you're missing. They say that when you write copy for a listing that the word "charming" can really mean "old" or "run down," but in referring to Avondale it really does mean all those good things we thi...

Stats are in for the first quarter of 2011 versus 2010 in the Charleston, SC tri-county area.  As expected, the number of [closed] sales is up by about 9% but the median price is down by about 8%*.   First quarter 2011 buying activity is the strongest it has been since 2007.  And listing activity...

It's difficult to labor too long on the wonders of the weather and the beauty of the lowcountry and Charleston when so many in the southeast have been beset by life-threatening weather so recently. Tornadoes have hit the region together with thunderstorms and high winds. And President Obama has d...