News Title:Pointe View Estates: A hidden custom-home opportunity in one of North Myrtle Beach’s most desirable coastal settings
There are numerous high-end, upscale communities throughout the Myrtle Beach area where custom builders continue to construct new homes on remaining homesites. These new home community opportunities can be surprisingly difficult to find because they often do not appear on the traditional websites of the major national and regional homebuilders. Unlike conventional new-home communities where one production builder controls a large number of homesites and offers a defined collection of floor plans, these neighborhoods may have individually owned homesites, multiple custom builders and individually designed homes.
As a result, a new home community can continue to offer brand-new construction opportunities for years after it has disappeared from the marketing radar of the larger builders. In many cases, the remaining opportunities are particularly attractive because they are located in established, amenity-rich neighborhoods with mature landscaping, completed infrastructure and highly desirable locations that would be difficult to replicate in a new development today.
Pointe View Estates in North Myrtle Beach's Cherry Grove area is a great example of this type of hidden new-home community opportunity.
Water's Edge is an established gated residential community in Cherry Grove, offering an exceptionally desirable location just minutes from the beach while being tucked away from the heavier activity of the beachfront. The community of Water’s Edge is surrounded by mature trees and the natural marsh and tidal waterways that define this part of Cherry Grove, providing a quieter residential setting while remaining close to restaurants, shopping, golf, the Cherry Grove Pier and the Atlantic Ocean.
Within the broader Water's Edge community, Pointe View Estates was developed as a much smaller 19-home enclave, creating an even more private setting behind its own gated entrance. Development has occurred gradually, with the first homes appearing around 2020 and construction continuing over the following several years. The new home community of Pointe View Estates is now approaching its final build-out, with only a limited number of homesites remaining and newer custom homes still being constructed.
Unlike a typical production subdivision, Pointe View Estates has featured multiple builders and individually designed homes, giving the neighborhood a more upscale, custom-home character. The result is a small collection of homes that feels considerably more private and individualized than the typical new-home community. For buyers looking for the advantages of a brand-new home without moving into a large subdivision filled with similar production homes, Pointe View Estates represents an unusual opportunity.
A Rare Marsh and Hog Inlet Setting
One of the most distinctive aspects of Pointe View Estates is its relationship to the marshes and waterways surrounding Hog Inlet. Hog Inlet is a natural tidal inlet and marsh-waterway system along the Cherry Grove coast, creating an environment of open marsh views, tidal creeks, coastal wildlife and constantly changing scenery as the tides move through the waterways.
Rather than backing up to another subdivision, portions of Pointe View Estates overlook this natural marsh environment, providing open views, greater visual privacy and a strong sense of separation from surrounding development. The setting of Pointe View Estates combines the natural character of the Lowcountry with the convenience of being just minutes from the Atlantic Ocean.
The surrounding waterways also provide opportunities for kayaking, fishing and boating, with the broader Cherry Grove waterway system connecting into the region's larger coastal boating network. While Pointe View Estates may not appear to have its own private boat ramp or marina, public boat-launch facilities are located nearby, providing access to the marsh and inlet system. The combination of gated privacy, custom homes, proximity to the beach and access to the marsh and Hog Inlet waterways makes the setting of Pointe View Estates particularly unusual for a community this close to the heart of North Myrtle Beach.
Part of a Larger Custom-Home Opportunity
Pointe View Estates is just one example of a larger segment of the Grand Strand's new-home market. Throughout the Myrtle Beach area, established and partially developed upscale communities continue to offer opportunities where custom builders can construct new homes on individual or remaining homesites. Some are actively adding new homes today, while others may have only a handful of opportunities remaining.
These communities can easily be overlooked because they are not necessarily presented as "new-home communities" on the websites of the major production builders. Yet for a buyer looking specifically for a new custom home in an established luxury setting, they can represent some of the most interesting opportunities available.
Other communities with this type of opportunity in the Myrtle Beach area include:
Arrowhead Grande
Black Creek Plantation
Boardwalk on the Waterway
Carolina Waterway Plantation
Charleston Landing
Collins Creek Landing
Cypress River Plantation
DeBordieu Colony
The Bluffs on the Waterway
The Dunes Club
Dunes Cove
Grande Dunes
Harmony Township
Pelican Bay
Plantation Lakes
South Island Plantation
The Battery on the Waterway
Waterway Palms Plantation
Waterside Edge
Waterside Pointe
Grande Dunes deserves particular mention as a master-planned luxury community encompassing numerous individual neighborhoods and home types along the Atlantic Ocean and Intracoastal Waterway, with continuing new construction and select custom-home opportunities.
Together, these communities illustrate an important and often overlooked part of the Grand Strand's housing market: new construction does not always mean a brand-new subdivision. Some of the area's most desirable new-home opportunities are found inside communities that have been established for years, where individual homesites continue to be developed by custom builders.
For buyers who value location, privacy, architectural flexibility, larger homesites, natural surroundings and higher-end finishes, these opportunities can offer the best of both worlds—a brand-new custom home in an established, amenity-rich coastal community.
And that is what makes Pointe View Estates particularly noteworthy. A buyer searching only the websites of the major production builders could easily overlook the opportunity. Instead, Pointe View Estates offers something considerably more limited: a chance to build a new custom home within a private 19-home enclave, surrounded by the marshes of Hog Inlet and just minutes from the beach.