If you have ever thought about owning a Charleston Condo, then now is definitely the time to start looking at all the beautiful condo's around the Charleston area. Why?

Put it like this - the economic outlook for the Charleston area is looking better and better, so get moving if you want to own that Charleston Condominium, or perhaps venture into the gorgeous historic charleston living way of life. 

Forbes magazine ranked Charleston among the top 10 smartest cities in the world, but that's not the only reason why Charleston and the SC Lowcountry is flush with positive economic news. Charleston landed the Boeing 787 Dreamliner factory (excuse the pun) and has to be our greatest coup of late, providing 3800 high paying manufacturing jobs and adding a huge feather in our economic cap. Move over tourism, manufacturing is coming in!

In addition the city signed a deal to keep the huge Maersk line in the port, which had been up in the air. I have written a blog about the former Naval Base in North Charleston. It seems there is alot of talk about finally figuring out where a rail line may go, so that the development of a live/work community of this historic area can go ahead. If they do figure out the rail line, it will be a huge boost to the quality of life in North Charleston.

And then we have Lonely Planet which names Charleston as one of the top places in the world to see. I mean, we know it is, but it's good to see influential organisations telling everyone else. And Forbes lists us among its top 10 cities for technology jobs and among the top 25 strongest housing markets - and with the quality of the charleston condo market you can see why.

Clemson University's Restoration Institute in North Charleston has been selected by the Dept of Energy as the site of a new $98 million test lab for large offshore wind turbines. Speculation is now rumbling around that GE might team up with Clemson on this. Yet another feather in the cap!

Lots of reasons for considering the ownership of a charleston condo in the Holy City!