Master plan, 2012 to present · 29466
Carolina Park
The newest master plan north of the IOP Connector, and still building: about 1,700 acres with nearly a mile of Wando River frontage. Production streets in The Village sit a mile from the custom river lots in Riverside, so it behaves like two markets that share an amenity center.
- 1,542
- Homes on the county record
- 1,700
- Acres in the master plan
- 2012
- First neighborhood opened
Shem Creek at dusk, the waterfront the whole town drives down Highway 17 to reach. Mark Cowell, CC BY 3.0
The Carolina Park record
Part one · the county deed record · published
Every home in Carolina Park was matched to its county parcel record, one at a time, and this is what the recorded deeds say. Public record — not an estimate, not a portal's model, and not the MLS.
- 92.2%
- Live in their own home
- county legal-residence records
- 4.4 yrs
- Median time owned
- since each home's last purchase
- 7%
- Change hands a year
- recorded deeds, trailing 24 months
- 1,542
- Homes in the record
- matched parcel by parcel
What Carolina Park owners paid, by the year they bought
Every bar is the median recorded purchase price of the homes whose owners bought that year and still own today. It is not a price index and this page will not pretend otherwise — homes that sold and sold again appear only under their most recent purchase. Read as what your neighbors paid, it is exact.
Owners who bought in 2013 paid a median of $430K. Owners who bought in 2026 paid $1.07M. That is 13 years of this neighborhood's own history, from the deeds themselves.
2 additional years are held back — 2010, 2012 — because fewer than five homes sit behind each. Publishing a median off four houses would be a guess wearing a number's clothes.
How long people stay
35.7%
41.3%
13.3%
9.7%
Compiled from Charleston County public property records (recorded deeds and assessor data), matched parcel-by-parcel to this neighborhood. Pulled October 29, 2026. Recorded deed prices under $1,000 are excluded as non-arm's-length (family transfers, corrections), and builder closings are included because they are real recorded sales. This is the county record, not the MLS record — days on market, asking prices and list-to-sold ratios come with the MLS archive.
Carolina Park's owner-occupancy rate is 92.2% — 1,422 of the 1,542 homes matched to a Charleston County parcel record carry the 4% legal-residence assessment ratio, which South Carolina grants only on a primary residence. Deed record as of October 29, 2026.
Median tenure in Carolina Park is 4.4 years — the midpoint of time elapsed since each home's last recorded purchase. Half the neighborhood has owned longer than that, half shorter.
Carolina Park's annual turnover rate is 7% — the share of its 1,542 homes that changed hands in a year, measured from recorded deeds rather than from listings, so it counts sales that never appeared on the MLS.
Carolina Park is one of fifteen Mount Pleasant neighborhoods on this index, covering13,009 homes matched to their parcel records one at a time.
What these three terms mean
- Owner-occupancy rate
- The share of homes whose owner claims the property as their primary residence. In South Carolina that claim is visible in the public record, because a legal residence is assessed at a 4% ratio and everything else at 6% — so this is a counted figure, not a survey estimate.
- Median tenure
- How long the current owners have owned, at the midpoint. A median rather than an average, because one house that has not sold since 1974 would drag an average somewhere misleading.
- Annual turnover rate
- What share of the neighborhood sells in a typical year. Low turnover means fewer homes reach the market, which is why a neighborhood can be desirable and quiet at the same time.
Part two · the MLS record · being assembled
The deeds tell you what changed hands. Only the MLS record can say how long it took, what the seller first asked, and how far the two ended up apart — and that pull is a working session on the brokerage's own MLS seat, not a feed this site can call. It lands here neighborhood by neighborhood.
Still to come
- Builder closings against resales, so new-construction prices never pass for the resale market
- The Village and Riverside tracked apart: production streets and custom river lots
- Revel, the active-adult section, on its own line
- The point where the last custom phase sells out and the community becomes pure resale
Around Carolina Park
The closest of everything this index has verified — measured from the middle of the neighborhood to each address, straight-line. Not drive time: the creeks and Highway 17 make those two numbers diverge.
Groceries
- Costco Wholesale — Mt Pleasant1.2 miles
- Publix — The Shoppes of Park West1.9 miles
- Walmart Supercenter #4384 (Proprietors Place)2.9 miles
Playgrounds & parks
Dog parks
Urgent care & emergency
Beach & water access
- Palmetto Islands County Park4.9 miles
- Garris Landing and the Bulls Island ferry6 miles
- Breach Inlet6.8 miles
Live music
- Wando River Grill and Marina4.1 miles
- Community Crafthouse6.4 miles
- Two Blokes Brewing (Mount Pleasant taproom)6.6 miles
Shopping
Distances are straight-line from the subdivision's centroid, computed from Charleston County parcel geometry and geocoded addresses. Nearest is a measurement, not a recommendation — this index does not rank places, and a shorter distance says nothing about whether somewhere suits you.
Ask Carolina Park
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Watching from outside the neighborhood?
Get told when Carolina Park changes, not when a portal wants your attention.
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About Carolina Park
The confirmed profile — every figure traced to a named source, listed at the foot of this page.
- ZIP
- 29466, north of the IOP Connector
- Built
- 2012 to present (custom phases still building)
- Homes
- 1,542 on the county record
- Developer
- Carolina Park Development, LLC
- Sections
- The Village, Riverside, Sawyer's Island, Revel, townhomes
- Parkland
- 80 acres, plus 220+ acres of preserved wetland
Where it sits
North Mount Pleasant between US-17 and the Wando River, on Carolina Park Boulevard and Park Avenue Boulevard, beside Wando High School and Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hospital.
How it was built
The land was bought in 2010 and construction began in 2011. The Village opened in 2012 as the first neighborhood and Riverside sales began in 2013. Custom phases are still being built. Developed by Carolina Park Development, LLC. The Village was built by Saussy Burbank, David Weekley, Lennar and others; Riverside and Sawyer's Island by Cline, Axon, Homes by Dickerson and The Burton Company; Revel by Berry Companies with David Weekley.
The homes
Production plans in The Village and the townhome sections; custom and semi-custom homes in Riverside and Sawyer's Island. Exterior changes go through a design review board.
Amenities & HOA
Per the developer: the Residents Club (junior-Olympic pool, tennis, a two-acre Great Lawn, playground, dog park), the Lake Club in Riverside, the 20-acre Bolden Lake, 80 acres of parkland and more than 220 acres of preserved wetland. The developer also donated the 54-acre Mount Pleasant Active Park. No golf. The developer's site sends owners to Poston Community Management for association documents. Dues are not published by a primary source.
Where Carolina Park falls in the corridor
Sixty-six years separate the oldest of these fifteen from the newest, which is what decides who buys here and which neighborhoods are honestly comparable.
The Carolina Park record is kept by Jim Deutsch, Charleston REALTOR®, eXp Realty LLC – Charleston (SC).
Sources for this profile
- Carolina Park (developer)
- Post and Courier: Carolina Park profile (2021)
- Charleston County parcel records (harvest 2026-10-29)
Facts current as of the September 2026 research pass; anything marked approximate is exactly that. Corrections welcome — this page would rather be right than smooth: james.deutsch@exprealty.com.