“Whether it’s lots, villas or homes, there is very little inventory,” said Harrington. But the hiccup like all markets here is certainly not for lack of want, it’s lack of housing. Citing the only thing close to it as the period between 2005 to 2008, she said the demand for property now on Kiawah is big and broad.
Harrington said she has seen significant changes over the past 40 plus years she’s lived on the island, but never anything like the current market. I transformed my love for helping people from nursing into this business.” “That started my selling career at Kiawah Island and it’s been my specialty and love for all these years. “As the number of rentals increased, more clients asked me for help in buying homes,” she recalled. Focusing solely on the property management aspect of the business for the first five years, she founded Pam Harrington Exclusives in 1978 and left nursing the following year. I agreed but knew nothing about property management.”ĭespite that, her “little side business” grew from one cottage to 16 of them over a year and a half. “He asked me if I would rent and maintain it for him.
“He had purchased a cottage at Kiawah and he was moving back to Europe,” said Harrington. That same year she and a good friend had a conversation about Kiawah Island. In 1977, she began Roper’s Nursing internship program. Harrington had worked as an ICU nurse, teaching advanced nursing and being head of an eight-bed ICU unit prior to moving to the area. A cottage rental on Kiawah and a favor to a friend blossomed into a very successful real estate company a year later. Pam Harrington moved to the Lowcountry in 1976.