All 31 communities we cover across seven regions of the Southeast, each carrying a Southern Escapes Score and a local's read on the trade. Filter by the life you are after, then step inside the one that fits.
The only address on the lake with a walkable village at its center, where you stroll from cottage to dock to…
The flagship Cliffs cove, where a Golf Digest top-ten private course plays eight holes along the water and…
The family cove, closest to Clemson, with a waterslide beach club and the newest clubhouse on the lake.
The wildest cove on the lake: 2,500 acres, twenty miles of private shoreline, waterfalls, and a Nicklaus…
South Carolina's only mountaintop golf community, where a 3,200-foot perch does what no amenity budget…
The largest and most established Cliffs mountain club, with a Nicklaus Signature course and the best valley…
The newest Cliffs club in the Upstate, built around a Gary Player Signature course ranked among the…
The Upstate's most prestigious in-town golf club, Tom Fazio greens and tour pedigree, fifteen minutes…
Greenville's only New Urbanist village, a walkable town with a boutique hotel, an acclaimed restaurant…
The prestige anchor of the plateau, a top-thirty course in the world and a waiting list longer than the…
Discovery Land's plateau flagship, a Fazio course at 4,000 feet paired with a private club on the…
A hundred-year-old mountain estate, comprehensively reborn, where a historic inn, a private lake, and a…
The plateau's most buyer-friendly club, the highest elevation of the five, with an 80 percent equity…
No golf, no pretense, just 800 acres inside the largest box canyon in the East and one of the Carolinas'…
Asheville's most consequential address, a sovereign town carved from Vanderbilt land and planned by the…
Metro Asheville's only gated mountain golf community, and this September the host of the PGA Tour's…
A member-owned Tom Fazio favorite eight minutes from Hendersonville, debt-free and consistently the top…
The oldest money address in the American South, a living museum where the city itself is the amenity.
The Hamptons of Charleston, a barrier island that banned short-term rentals in 2002 and kept its full-time…
South Carolina's only truly elite oceanfront resort community, the Ocean Course address for people who…
The only master-planned island town near Charleston with real urban amenities and a private club to match.
Charleston's most architecturally intentional neighborhood, a New Urbanist village that actually…
The most authentic neighborhood outside the peninsula, waterfront, walkable, and chronically undersupplied.
A 20,000-acre Lowcountry sanctuary where a Forbes five-star resort, working stables, and three golf courses…
Hilton Head's original masterplan and still its most recognizable address, where the PGA Tour plays…
The Lowcountry's only car-free island address: no bridge, no public roads, reached by private ferry…
The only Lowcountry club where Nicklaus and Pete Dye built on the same property, with seven miles of…
Hilton Head's most members-only club, a top-100 Pete Dye course owned outright by the people who play it.
Hilton Head's most unusual address, built around one of only three lock-controlled deepwater harbours on…
Where serious horse money lives when it is not in Wellington, anchored by a $100M international show center…
The most aristocratic horse town in America, where Thoroughbreds train on sand and polo has been played since…
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