The general Charleston area is made up of three counties: Charleston County, Berkeley County, and Dorchester County. These three counties vary in tax prices. If you were to compare two houses that were identical in price – one in Charleston County and one in Dorchester County – you would pay considerably more in taxes for the Charleston County home.
As a general rule of thumb, you can expect to pay about $700 per $100,000 of the purchase price of a home in Charleston. In the fair chance that the home you’re considering is not priced exactly by the hundred thousands, you can calculate it by saying $7 per $1,000 of the purchase price. For homes in Charleston County, this number is slightly higher. So, if you were trying to calculate property
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