Living in Calabash / Carolina Shores
Calabash and Carolina Shores together form one of the most popular retirement and resort-living destinations on the southern Brunswick coast. Calabash, a town of roughly 2,000 on Calabash Creek, has built a national reputation on one thing: seafood. More than two dozen restaurants serve the fried-shrimp-and-hush-puppy style that spawned a culinary term used from Maine to Florida. Carolina Shores neighbors Calabash and offers a master-planned community with golf, amenities, and a well-established retirement population. Between the two communities, buyers find everything from golf-view condos under $200,000 to custom homes pushing $600,000. The South Carolina state line sits less than two miles south, giving residents easy access to Myrtle Beach's shopping, airport, and entertainment. Sunset Beach and Ocean Isle Beach are both within 15 minutes, making this pocket of the Brunswick coast a practical base for coastal life without paying inlet-front prices for every amenity.
About the Area
Market Data
Average Days on Market
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98
Average List Price
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$390,290
Active Listings
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347
Fun Facts
Calabash / Carolina Shores
Calabash-style seafood" is a legitimate culinary term used across the Eastern Seaboard, and it was born right here, in a town with fewer than 2,000 people and more than 20 seafood restaurants. The story goes that fishermen's wives began frying their husbands' catch in a communal pot along Calabash Creek in the early 1900s, and the light, crispy, barely-battered technique spread until Lucy Coleman and her legendary "Coleman's Original" restaurant made it famous nationally, with a little help from Jimmy Durante and Bob Hope, who both ate there and talked about it. Yes, really. Carolina Shores, Calabash's planned-community neighbor, has a quieter origin story: a 1970s development anchored by the golf courses that still define it today. The area now hosts more golf courses per square mile than most towns twenty times its size. Real estate here is a favorite with retirees and second-home buyers who want the Myrtle Beach airport 30 minutes south, a beach 10 minutes east, and a kitchen table within walking distance of the best fried shrimp in the state. If you've been holding off because you didn't know this corner of Brunswick County existed, now you do. The shrimp has been waiting.
Find Your Home In Calabash & Carolina Shores
Calabash and Carolina Shores sit in the sweet spot of the Brunswick coast, close to the beach, close to Myrtle Beach, walkable to legendary seafood, and priced to make a lot of sense for buyers who've done their homework. Golf, retirement communities, second homes, and investment properties are all well-represented here. Our brokers know this market well. Browse current listings below and let's start the conversation.
