One island
12 miles of beach
A dozen grand communities
A wonderful lifestyle
Many of the planned communities on Hilton Head Island and the rest of Beaufort County's low country are gated and private, with entry gained only by property owners, guests, realtors and service personnel. Others are readily accessible and offer shopping, dining, and recreational facilities which welcome the public. Listed below are the most prominent developments, which are private.
Hilton Head Plantation
Indigo Run
Long Cove Club
Palmetto Dunes
Palmetto Hall
Port Royal
Sea Pines Plantation
Shipyard Plantation
Spanish Wells
Wexford Plantation
Windmill Harbour
Hilton Head Island has not escaped the global recession and especially the decline in residential real estate prices (and sales volumes). To give you a snapshot of real estate activity during the most recent recording month, September 2010, and that point with a year earlier we constructed the chart below from information collected by the Hilton Head Association of Realtors. Below the chart are brief descriptions of each of the Island's primary residential plantations.
Hilton Head Plantation is located at the north end of the island, has two miles of beach and is next to Palmetto Hall. With nearly 4,000 acres of land 
sheltered between Port Royal Sound and the Intracoastal Waterway, Hilton Head Plantation boasts the full-scale amenities of a country club haven with four golf courses, miles of bike and jogging trails, two nature conservancies, tennis courts, boating facilities, a community recreations center, swimming pools, the Seabrook Farms for gardening and two miles of beaches on the Port Royal Sound.
With approximately 6,000 homes, town homes, villas and home sites, prices range from $250,000 to over $1,000,000.
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Indigo Run is the last private residential and golf community to be developed on Hilton Head 
Island, and is located directly across Highway 278 from Hilton Head Plantation. The development features are two private golf clubs — the Golden Bear Golf Club and The Golf Club. A centrally located community house hosts special interest group and property owner functions. There is a community park that features an Olympic-sized swimming pool, sun decks, a children's wading pool, six clay tennis courts, and a children's playground.
With approximately1,700 acre, homes, town homes, villas and home sites, prices rage from $500,000 to about $2,225,000.
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Located on Broad Creek on Wexford's north side, all Long Cove Club 
all property owners are members of the Club and has full use of the golf, tennis, pool and clubhouse facilities. The Pete Dye golf course is consistently ranked among the best in the state. The Club is a blend of retired, semi-retired couples, working families. Residents have access to 60 boat slips and 45 kayak storage spaces at the Long Cove Club.
Long Cove's 575 residences are priced from $500,000 to $3,500,000.
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Near the middle of the island, Palmetto Dunes is both a resort and residential community. 
Palmetto Dunes has 5000 residences on 1800 acres, three miles of beaches, and an 11-mile lagoon system.
The Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center offers 25 courts, three public 18-hole golf courses and the Hilton Head Marriott Beach and Golf Resort. The championship courses were designed by George Fazio, Robert Trent Jones and Arthur Hills.
Palmetto Dunes is located across Highway 278 from Shelter Cove Harbour and offers homes priced from $600,000 to $7,000,000 range and villas from $175,000 to $4,500,000.
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Palmetto Hall is a new development with one mile of beach on the north end of the island. The community's 600 homes occupy 750 
acres of low country and includes two golf courses designed by Arthur Hills and the Robert Cupp.
Property owners receive full Palmetto Hall Club membership providing access to the 14,000 square-foot low country-styled clubhouse, which offers private dining, card rooms, pro shop, a club room, a large swimming pool, children's playground, and tennis courts.
Palmetto Hall residence prices range from $400,000 to around $1,000,000.
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At the "heel" of the shoe-shaped island, Port Royal has two miles of beaches and is located where Highway 278 turns west toward the mainland bridge. The development is Hilton Head's only purely residential oceanfront residential community; no hotel or commercial rental facilities are available. However, the Westin Resort is adjacent to the development.Port Royal has 1250 acres and about 2050 residences.
Port Royal has three 18-hole golf courses — the Barony, Planter's Row and Robber's Row. In addition, there are two championship croquet courts, and a 16-court racquet club featuring grass, clay and hard court.
Residents are priced from from $450,000 to $5,000,000.
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Sea Pines Plantation
On the southwestern tip of the island, Sea Pines is Hilton Head's first planned community 
"plantation." Know worldwide as a premier residential haven and resort destination, Sea Pines has four miles of Atlantic Ocean beaches and miles of property on the intracoastal waterway, two marinas — Harbour Town and South Beach — and an equestrian center. Encompassing 5,200 acres, Sea Pines also has five miles of Atlantic Ocean beaches, nearly half of Hilton Head Island's 12 miles of beach property.
The plantation has a 605-acre Forest Preserve; four golf courses including the Harbour Town Golf Links, home of the Heritage Tournament; an numerous tennis courts, 15 miles of trails. At Harbour Tow, there is a 60-room Inn, and two conference centers.
Sea Pines' single-family home prices range from $300,000 to $8,500,000, and villas prices from $200,000 to $1,750,000. In all, there are 5,900 homes and villas.
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North of Sea Pines on the south end of the island,
Shipyard has not homes with direct beach frontage, but all residents have access through he Shipyard Beach Club. The community features three nine-hole golf courses, the Van der Meer Shipyard Tennis Resort with 20 championship courts, and tree-lined trails for walking, biking, roller blading and jogging. Fresh water lagoons are scattered throughout the development.Shipyard's single-family residences are prices from $400,000 to $600,000, while the plantation's villas range from $200,000 to $$800,000.
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The second to last community moving off the island is the 340-acre, 200-home Spanish Wells development, which is a non-gated community protected by patrolling security guards. 
The community lies on the peninsula that separates Calibogue Sound and Broad Creek, and offers excellent sunset viewing.
Homes are situated on lots of a minimum of one acre, many with deep water access and private docks. The community has a clubhouse, semi-private nine-hole golf course, tennis courts, pool, and beach area.
Spanish Wells' home prices range from $600,000 to $5,000,000 range.
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Across Highway 278 from Shipyard, Wexford is a very private, sophisticated community
. With 525 acres the community is fully developed, offers no public resort activities and has a 37 acres locked yacht basin and harbor. Additionally, Wexford has tennis facilities, an 18-hole golf course, lawn and racquet club, community pool and bike and walking paths. The community is approximately one mile from the Atlantic beaches.
Wexford 500 single family home and villa property prices range from $800,000 to over $5,000,000 range. .
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The last private community glimpsed before crossing the bridge to the main land is Windmill Harbour 
which is located on the Intracoastal Waterway and Broad Creek, where breathtaking sunsets can be witnessed.
Windmill Harbour is known for its harbour's technologically advanced lock system, protecting the 260-slip basin from wakes, currents and silting while affording direct boating access to the Intracoastal Waterway and the Calibogue sound. Windmill Harbour is home to the area's award-winning South Carolina Yacht Club.
A waterfront sports center provides excellent recreational amenities as well. Windmill Harbor is within 4 miles of the beach, and is home to residences from $450,000 to $4,000,000.
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Andre Colliers/MAX Island Realty
46 Sand Fiddler Rd.
843-683-6611
Andy Twisdale Realtor at Charter 1 North
Charter 1 North Realty
843-384-7771
Carolina Realty Group
PO Box 8028
843-341-5660
Charter I Realty & Marketing North
PO Box 23587
843-681-3307
Collins Group Realty
PO Box 5220
843-341-6300
Daufuskie Company, Inc.
PO Box 5626
843-842-2723
Dunes Marketing Group
PO Box 21326
843-842-1111
ERA Evergreen Real Estate Company
840 William Hilton Parkway
843
-842-4400
Finer Properties
32 Greenwood Drive
843-686-7934
Gateway Realty
PO Box 24143
843-757-7710
Hampton Lake
PO Box 21587
843-836-5253
Homes & Land of Hilton Head
PO Box 23346
843-815-9755
Keller Williams Realty
8 Lafayette Place, Suite 203
843-682-8100
Nanci Buczynski at Dunes Marketing Group
PO Box 21326
843-842-0808
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Palmetto Prestige Properties, LLC
52 New Orleans Road, Suite 204
843-842-7500
Prudential Premier Island Properties
42 New Orleans Rd
843-298-2602
RE/MAX Island Realty-The Lusik Team
99 Main Street
843-368-2140
Red Cedar Place at Bluffton Park
2 Hobnoy Court
843-706-2244
Resort Island Realty
1538 Fording Island Road, Suite 106
843-837-4663
Schembra Real Estate Group
32P Shelter Cove Lane
843-785-2452 Internet:
Sea Pines Real Estate Company
PO Box 7000
843-785-3334
Searchlight Realty
21 Office Park Road
800-867-9746
Susan Ochsner
Julie Toon Pawley Real Estate
9 Red Maple
Terry Zilis at RE/MAX Island Realty
84 Headlands Drive
843-342-9959
The Wilson Group
PO Box 6766
843-384-7277
The Wm. F. Hilton Co. Inc.
P O Box 5641
843-785-4700
Weichert Realtors Coastal Properties
1038 William Hilton Pkwy
843-341-3700
Wexford Realty LLC
PO Box 6986
843-686-8800
Brokers Real Estate, Inc.
PO Box 790
Bluffton, SC 29910
843-837-6080
www.HousesOnHiltonHeadIsland.com
Celia Dunn Sotheby's International Realty
PO Box 3425
Bluffton, SC 29910
843-836-3900
www.celiadunnsir.com
Century 21 Southern Lifestyle Properties
10 Oak Forest Drive
Bluffton, SC 29910
843-757-6908
www.southernlifestylegroup.com
Coldwell Banker Platinum Partners
29 Plantation Park Drive, Suite 106
Bluffton, SC 29910
843-705-2000
www.coldwellbankerplatinum.com
Cora Bett Thomas Realty of South Carolina
Box 2535
Bluffton, SC 29910
843-757-6002
www.corabettthomas.com
Del Webb Communities
15 St. William Jasper Blvd.
Bluffton, SC 29909
843-705-8700
www.suncity.com\hiltonhead
Fix-Grecco & Associates at Gateway Realty
9 Pavins Place
Bluffton, SC 29910
843-263-8295
www.fixgrecco.com
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Gina Scott at Keller Williams Realty
102 Buckwalter Parkway Suite 3J
Bluffton, SC 29910
843-384-1215 www.ginascottteam.com
Karen Golden Realty
Box 797
Bluffton, SC 29910
683-8308
www.karengoldenrealty.com
Seashore Real Estate
PO Box 2026
Bluffton, SC 29910
843-815-2447
www.blufftonarearealestate.com
Hardeeville
Hilton Head Lakes
2630 Independence Blvd.
Hardeeville, SC 29927
843-784-5253
www.hiltonheadlakes.com
Oakatie
Heyward Point 1
5 Heyward Point Road
Okatie, SC 29909
843-379-7712
www.heywardpoint.com
Savannah
Savannah Quarters
PO Box 2888
Savannah, GA 31402
912-450-2290
www.SavannahQuarters.com