Surfside Beach Real Estate

Surfside Beach calls itself 'The Family Beach' and lives up to it: a compact, golf-cart-friendly town just south of Myrtle Beach where raised beach houses pass between generations and summer rentals book the same families year after year. It's the Strand at its most traditional — no high-rise wall, a town pier, and streets where the fourth row from the ocean still feels like the beach.

That tradition creates a distinctive investment market. East-of-17 beach houses combine personal-use appeal with proven weekly rental histories, making them the classic hybrid buy for NJ families who want a second home that pays for part of itself. Flood zones, elevation certificates, and insurance costs are the underwriting swing factors — details I verify before clients get attached, because they change the math more than price does.