Golf community on the waterway, 1989 onward · 29466
Charleston National
A Rees Jones course on a plantation tract first settled in the 1690s, conceived as a private club and turned public after Hurricane Hugo hit the week it was due to open. The homes wrap the course along Copahee Sound and the Intracoastal Waterway.
- 699
- Homes on the county record
- 1989
- Course set to open, the week of Hugo
- 1690s
- Stratton Place first settled
The Sullivan's Island lighthouse, on one of the two barrier islands Mount Pleasant reaches by bridge. Ted Kerwin, CC BY 2.0
The Charleston National record
Part one · the county deed record · published
Every home in Charleston National 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.
- 86.3%
- Live in their own home
- county legal-residence records
- 6.4 yrs
- Median time owned
- since each home's last purchase
- 4.9%
- Change hands a year
- recorded deeds, trailing 24 months
- 699
- Homes in the record
- matched parcel by parcel
What Charleston National 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 1998 paid a median of $200K. Owners who bought in 2026 paid $825K. That is 28 years of this neighborhood's own history, from the deeds themselves.
9 additional years are held back — 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2010 — 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
24%
30.2%
14.9%
30.9%
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.
Charleston National's owner-occupancy rate is 86.3% — 603 of the 699 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 Charleston National is 6.4 years — the midpoint of time elapsed since each home's last recorded purchase. Half the neighborhood has owned longer than that, half shorter.
Charleston National's annual turnover rate is 4.9% — the share of its 699 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.
Charleston National 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
- Golf, waterway and interior closings tracked apart
- The Retreat's townhomes on their own line
- Westchester's sections against the course sections
- Owner tenure as the 1990s buyers reach thirty years
Around Charleston National
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
- Publix — The Shoppes of Park West0.7 miles
- Costco Wholesale — Mt Pleasant0.9 miles
- Walmart Supercenter #4384 (Proprietors Place)1.3 miles
Playgrounds & parks
Dog parks
Urgent care & emergency
Beach & water access
- Palmetto Islands County Park3.8 miles
- Breach Inlet4.9 miles
- Isle of Palms Beach4.9 miles
Live music
- Wando River Grill and Marina5 miles
- Two Blokes Brewing (Mount Pleasant taproom)5.4 miles
- The Windjammer6 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 Charleston National
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About Charleston National
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
- Course 1989; homes mainly 1990s and 2000s
- Homes
- 699 on the county record
- Golf
- Rees Jones, par 72, public play (club is separate)
- Water
- Intracoastal Waterway and Copahee Sound
- History
- The old Stratton Place plantation
Where it sits
Off US-17 North past SC-41, along the Intracoastal Waterway and Copahee Sound, across US-17 from Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hospital.
How it was built
Developed from the 1980s on the old Stratton Place plantation. The golf course was due to open about a week after Hurricane Hugo struck in September 1989, and the sections around it were built mainly through the 1990s and 2000s. Centex built several sections, including The Estates, The Gallery and Governor's Pointe, alongside local and custom builders. The original developer is not confirmed and is not named here.
The homes
A mix: production single-family sections, custom waterfront sections such as Victory Pointe, and The Retreat's townhomes.
Amenities & HOA
Charleston National Golf Club, a separate business: a Rees Jones and Greg Muirhead design, par 72, routed along the waterway through marsh and lagoons and open to public play. The neighborhood has an amenity center with pool and tennis, trails and a playground. Not stated here: no association site or governing document was found. Pool and tennis are reported as a separate social membership.
Where Charleston National 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 Charleston National record is kept by Jim Deutsch, Charleston REALTOR®, eXp Realty LLC – Charleston (SC).
Sources for this profile
- Post and Courier / Moultrie News: originally Stratton Place
- Rees Jones, Inc.: Charleston National
- Golf Course News, November 1989
- 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.