A Charleston brokerage by deliberate scale.

Our story

One brokerage. One peninsula. Twenty-eight years.

“We sell the houses we’d live in, in the neighborhoods we already live in. The math works because the radius is small.”

Margaret Calhoun opened MeridianCove Realty in 1996 in a two-room office on King Street with a single phone line, a stack of MLS books, and a rule: the brokerage would never grow past what a managing broker could personally walk through in a week.

Twenty-eight years later that rule still holds. Six agents. About 130 active listings across the Charleston tri-county at any given time. Margaret still walks every listing within a week of sign — downtown, Daniel Island, Folly, Sullivan’s, James, Mt. Pleasant. The boundaries haven’t moved.

We’ve closed more than $2.1 billion in transactions since opening. We were named the #1 Daniel Island brokerage by transaction volume in 2024. None of that changed the operating principles. We turn down listings outside the tri-county. We turn down team agents who can’t commit to a single specialty. We turn down referral relationships that compromise the buyer’s side of the table.

MeridianCove is not a franchise, not a national affiliate, not a team-of-twenty hidden inside a bigger brand. It is six Charleston agents who live in the neighborhoods they sell — and that, finally, is the whole pitch.