Hollywood, SC

Hollywood Real Estate | Where Land Is the Product

Hollywood is a town in western Charleston County along Highway 162, roughly twenty miles southwest of downtown Charleston between the Stono River side and the countryside running toward the ACE Basin, with approximately 5,300 residents at the 2020 census spread across nearly twenty five square miles. The range of Hollywood homes for sale runs from the mid $300,000s at the entry to past $2.5 million for waterfront and larger acreage, and that spread is the town in one line: buyers come here for the parcel as much as the house.

Population and land area: US Census 2020 via Wikipedia, checked September 2026. Listing range: aggregator listing data, September 2026.

About three thousand acres of town per thousand residents makes land the defining product. What trades here is pasture, tidal creek frontage, long drives under oaks, and houses that come with ground, in a town that began in the 1880s as Charles Geraty's farming venture beside a natural grove of holly trees and grew up along the railroad and two-lane Highway 162. The bumper sticker says We're the Real Hollywood, and the claim is the opposite of its namesake: a working crossroads with a grocery store, a diner, and a town hall. The one master-planned exception is The Plantation at Stono Ferry, roughly 600 acres on the Intracoastal Waterway carrying a semi-private golf course laid over a Revolutionary War battlefield, a 22-stall equestrian center, two polo fields, tennis courts, and a pool, and it functions as its own market inside the town.

The market numbers need reading with their sample sizes attached. Redfin reported a February 2026 median of $693,000, up 69.9 percent on the year, with homes taking 104 days to sell at 96.4 percent of list. A June 2025 report put the median at $700,000, up less than one percent. In a town this size a month can close a handful of sales, so the median swings with what happened to sell, and a 69.9 percent print is mix rather than appreciation. The steadier signals are the level, consistently around the high $600,000s to $700,000 across sources, the listing spread, recently about $334,000 to $2.6 million across roughly one hundred listings, and the pace, which is slow. The practical conclusion is that Hollywood prices at the parcel level, not the town level.

The Andy Bovender Team serves Hollywood from a Compass office at 708 South Shelmore Boulevard in Mount Pleasant, alongside offices in Charlotte, Columbia, Wilmington, Fort Mill, Greenville, Lake Murray, and the Outer Banks. Two things make representation matter in this market. First, comparables here are thin and non-repeating, so value rides on the things a listing sheet understates: dock status and permits, well and septic condition and capacity, wetlands delineation, and how much of the acreage is usable high ground. Second, inside and outside The Plantation at Stono Ferry are two different products, one with an association, amenity entitlements, and golf frontage, the other rural fee-simple land, and the first step in pricing any Hollywood listing is establishing which market it actually belongs to.

What to Love About Hollywood

Land Is Still the Product

Hollywood spreads about 5,300 residents across nearly twenty five square miles, so what trades here is ground: pasture, woods, tidal frontage, and houses with real acreage, twenty miles from downtown Charleston.

The Plantation at Stono Ferry

Roughly 600 acres on the Intracoastal Waterway with a semi-private golf course, a 22-stall equestrian center, two polo fields, tennis courts, and a pool. It is the town's one master-planned community and a market of its own.

Golf on a Revolutionary Battlefield

The Links at Stono Ferry plays across ground fought over on June 20, 1779, with a reconstructed redoubt beside the twelfth fairway and Stono River views on the back nine. It was named South Carolina Golf Course of the Year in 2011 and is open to public play.

Dinner Worth the Drive

Pane E Vino, an Italian dinner house that relocated from downtown Charleston to Highway 162, gives a town of 5,300 a restaurant people drive out from the city for. Reviews routinely call it worth the trip.

The Stono and the Creeks

The town's eastern side runs to the Stono River system, and tidal creek and river frontage with dock potential is a recurring feature of its listings. Water access here comes with acreage attached, which is rare this close to Charleston.

A Crossroads That Still Works

Where Highway 162 meets Highway 165, Hollywood keeps a grocery store, a market, a retro diner, a pizza and coffee room, a county library branch, and its town hall. The everyday basics live in town rather than up the highway.

Hollywood Sub-Areas | A Buyer's Guide

Hollywood is one town holding two markets and a lot of countryside. Four areas cover it, and the first question about any listing is which of the four it belongs to.

The Plantation at Stono Ferry

The town's master-planned community occupies roughly 600 acres along the Intracoastal Waterway, with housing running from townhomes to custom builds around the golf course, and amenities including the equestrian center, polo fields, tennis, a pool, and a community dock. It functions as its own market: association-governed, amenity-driven, and priced on golf and water position in a town otherwise priced on acreage. Three things belong in every offer here. Establish what the association covers and costs, and whether the golf club, the stables, and the pool are association amenities or separately owned operations with their own memberships and fees, because the answer changes the real monthly cost. Read the covenants before planning changes, since this is the one part of town with architectural control. And confirm what any given membership or entitlement actually transfers with the deed.

The Highway 162 Corridor and the Crossroads

Where Highway 162 meets Highway 165, Hollywood keeps its working center: the grocery store, the market, the diner, the pizza room, the library branch, and town hall, with houses on village lots and larger parcels strung along both highways. This is the everyday middle of the market, where a buyer gets a town address, the shortest run to the services, and a lot that is usually measured in fractions of an acre rather than tens. The diligence is utility-first: confirm whether the specific address runs on public water and sewer or on well and septic, because both arrangements exist in and around town and the difference matters to cost, maintenance, and what can be added later. Highway frontage is the other trade to weigh, since the same road that makes the errands short carries the town's through traffic.

The River and Creek Frontage

Hollywood's eastern side runs to the Stono River system, and its waterfront listings are the top of the market: acreage with tidal creek or river frontage, dock potential, and long views across the marsh. Pricing here is parcel-specific in the extreme, because deep water at the dock, marsh-front with a walkway, and view-only frontage are three different products that can sit on the same creek. The diligence set is the full coastal list and it is not optional: establish existing dock permits and what the state's coastal permitting would allow on that exact stretch, get the flood zone and elevation for the building site, price insurance with its recent trend, and have the wetlands line delineated before valuing the acreage, because the usable high ground is the number that matters. What a neighbor has built is not evidence of what a new owner may build.

The Western Reaches Toward Meggett and Adams Run

West and south of the crossroads, the town thins into farms, long parcels, and quiet two-lane roads running toward Meggett and Adams Run, and this is where Hollywood's pure land market lives: pasture, timber, homesites with room for barns and workshops, and properties held by the same owners for generations. Buyers here should walk the boundaries against a current survey, establish well and septic condition and capacity, confirm what the agricultural zoning permits and whether any conservation easements apply, and check road frontage and access easements on flag lots and long drives. Note that Meggett is its own incorporated town and is not covered by this page; listings near the line should be checked against the actual town limits, because the address line on a listing does not always match the jurisdiction.

Property Types Across Hollywood

Four categories cover the town. Acreage and rural land, improved or bare, is the volume of the market and prices on usable high ground. Waterfront acreage on the Stono system is the top of the market and prices on dock position. Stono Ferry community product, townhomes to custom golf-course builds, is the association-governed exception. Village homes at the crossroads are the entry point and the shortest walk to the services. Across all four, five questions decide value: which of the four markets the listing belongs to, how much of the parcel is usable high ground, the water and septic arrangement, the dock and coastal permitting position where water is involved, and what the association covers and costs where one exists.

Living in Hollywood | Dining, Shopping, and Things to Do

Dining

For a town of 5,300, Hollywood eats unusually well, and the cluster sits where Highway 162 meets Highway 165.

Pane E Vino, at 6350 Highway 162, is the destination: an Italian dinner house that relocated from downtown Charleston, working dishes like duck pappardelle and wood-grilled eggplant. Open Tuesday to Saturday from 4:30, closed Sundays and Mondays, and worth booking.

Fillin Station Diner, at 5261 Highway 165, is the town's retro lunch room, doing burgers, fried pickles, and daily specials. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 to 3.

Pizza A Modo Mio and Cafe, at 6231a Highway 162, covers New York style pizza alongside a bakery case and espresso from 7:30 in the morning. Open Monday to Saturday, closed Sundays.

Shopping and Everyday Errands

The crossroads carries the everyday basics. Piggly Wiggly at 6251 Highway 162 is the in-town grocery store, open seven days, and Hollywood Market at 6374 Highway 162 covers convenience runs daily from 7 in the morning to 11 at night. For the wider weekly shop, the Food Lion on Savannah Highway in Ravenel sits about ten minutes north, and the full-format stores at West Ashley Circle and Bees Ferry, covered on the Rural West Ashley page, are roughly twenty to twenty five minutes. The practical note is that Hollywood keeps its errands short without keeping them complete, and most households run a two-tier routine: the crossroads for the daily basics, the highway for the rest.

Golf, Horses, Water, and Things to Do

The town's recreation is anchored at Stono Ferry. The Links at Stono Ferry is open daily 7 to 5 with public tee times, Stono River views on the back nine, and the reconstructed Revolutionary War redoubt beside the twelfth fairway, and the community's equestrian center and polo fields carry the town's horse life, with boarding, lessons, and events run through the club. On the water, the Stono system and the Intracoastal Waterway carry boating and fishing off the town's eastern side. In town, the county library branch adds programs and everyday civic life at the crossroads.

Beyond town, the position is quietly strong. Caw Caw Interpretive Center and the US 17 services sit about ten minutes north in Ravenel, covered on its own page. The West Ashley retail and the Ashley River plantation corridor are twenty to twenty five minutes, covered on the Rural West Ashley page. Edisto Island and its beach run about forty minutes southwest and have their own page, and downtown Charleston is roughly thirty five to forty five minutes at peak. The honest summary is that Hollywood trades commute time for land, and the buyers it fits have already decided that trade is worth making.