By Anna B. Mitchell – Rule No. 1: if you want to sell your lake house for more than $1 million, install a wine cellar. Real estate values on the state’s lakes have bumped up 15 percent since spring 2017, according to a new report out from the multistate real estate firm Lake Homes Realty. and Upstate lake properties – complete with wine cellars, wraparound back porches, billiards rooms and outdoor fireplaces – are leading the way.

Total current value of the state’s lakeside real estate, including homes and undeveloped parcels: $1,48 billion. It was $1.28 billion a year ago.

Lake Keowee is at the top of the watery heap with a $355 million lake market – nearly a quarter of the state’s lakeside inventory. Not far behind is Lake Hartwell at $326 million, or about 22 percent of the state’s inventory… 5 Reasons why Hartwell and Keowee dominate the state’s $1.5B lakeside housing market

5 reasons why Hartwell and Keowee dominate the states 1.5B lakeside housing market

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