Word on the street is that the local Sportsclub has been purchased by ACAC out of Charlottesville, VA. No word yet as to what plans ACAC has for Sportsclub but many suspect there will be some nice improvements to the equipment and hopefully the facilities. I believe ACAC stands for Atlantic Coast Athletic Club.
I’ve been a member of Sportsclub for three years and it’s a great club! The staff is very friendly as well as the members. The facilities definitely could use some renovations and those of us who spin are crossing our fingers that they plan to buy new bikes!
Sportsclub has facilities in Greenville, Simpsonville and Five Forks.
Downtown Simpsonville is continuing to see redevelopment. The Greenville Journal does a great job highlighting key points from Simpsonville City Manager, Dianna Gracely. Those items noted include:
- Conversion of Simpsonville Elementary to the new Simpsonville Arts Center
- Burdette Central redevelopment
- Heritage Park
- Swamp Rabbit Trail extension
Here’s the link to the Simpsonville Comprehensive Plan. Here’s an additional helpful resource. It’s a link to the Simpsonville Planning Department. It has notices of meetings as well as various zoning, planning and land use maps.
The greater Greenville area housing market has seen a slowing in its housing market due to COVID-19 especially during the month of April. Given the peak of the crisis has now come and gone, it’s expected that things should pick up quite nicely during the month of May.
Some key data points for the month of April 2020 according to the report released from the Greater Greenville Association of Realtors:
- New listings were down 17.6% compared to a year ago
- Pending sales were down 59.8% compared to a year ago
- Closed sales were down 12.6% compared to a year ago
- Inventory of homes for sale increased by 22.2%
- Months supply of homes for sale increased by 20.6% to 4.1 months
- Median Home prices increased by 3.8% to $225,000
- Days on Market until Sale 54 days
The Greenville, Simpsonville, Mauldin area experienced about 5-6″ of rain today. Most of it fell very quickly this morning from about 9am to noon with a little let up at lunchtime. The rains then came back. There were lots of news stories about damage and flooded out roads throughout the Upstate. We saw images all over Facebook of various creeks that had risen significantly. The images below are from the River Walk neighborhood where Gilder Creek runs through it.
I had a chance to chat with a neighbor who said he’s lived here 20 years and never seen it quite like this. As I understand it, there have been a couple of rain events over the past 20 years where they have had an overflowing creek that has taken out a walking bridge or two. I’m not aware of any flooding that has happened to anyone’s home in the neighborhood. The good news is the water has finally started to recede.
The Greenville area continues to post strong homes sales number with October up nearly 12% compared to last October. In October 2019, 1127 units closed compared to 1,097 in 2018. The median sales price is up 5.6% from $206,500 in 2018 to $218,000 in 2019.
Other key data points for the Greenville area housing market are below in the various images. (Data is from the Greater Greenville Association of Realtors). Areas included in the general roll up of the data include: Greenville, Simpsonville, Five Forks, and Mauldin amongst many others.
What is interesting to see is that the overall inventory is starting to grow in the overall area – up 20% compared to a year ago. We’ll dig in further to see specifically if that inventory is growing in Greenville and Simpsonville.
