Scout's Honor
Home Advantage Realty welcomes Scout Motors to Blythewood, South Carolina! Scout Motors has honored South Carolina with its decision to invest in the Palmetto State and Home Advantage Realty honors Scout employees through our Scout’s Honor Program.
Different kind of lifestyle
Welcome to Blythewood, SC
Located 15 miles northeast of Columbia, Blythewood is an historic small town with beautiful rural areas surrounding it, an easy 30-minute drive to Downtown Columbia. The pulse in Blythewood is rising a bit these days since the recent announcement that Blythewood will be the United States’ manufacturing headquarters for Scout Motors, including a $2 billion investment and the creation of 4,000 or more jobs in the Blythewood area.
While Blythewood is experiencing significant residential and commercial growth, the town is actively working to ensure thoughtful growth in both the residential and commercial sectors including significant highway improvements for its citizens.
Blythewood offers appealing and varied living options including quiet subdivisions with plenty of trees where elbow room is easy to find, newer construction such as Cobblestone Park that offers a country club lifestyle, and subdivisions such as Longcreek that is is popular with the equestrians community. Numerous subdivisions throughout the area offer homes that fit most budgets.
Meet the mayor of Blythewood, Mayor Bryan Franklin, as he offers an eloquent introduction to beautiful Blythewood!
Welcome Home!
A Place For Families
Blythewood has a wide variety of homes, including many fine housing developments as well as older neighborhoods, and houses, and farms scattered throughout the picturesque rolling hills.
It is a safe and settled place, with its own sheriff’s sub station and fire stations. High quality hospitals are nearby, a short drive down I-77, which serves Blythewood with two exits.
Blythewood is also a great place to learn. We are in the award-winning Richland 2 school district which
is has a long tradition of running some of the best schools in the state. There are pre-school groups held in churches and independent learning centers, as well as eight K-12 public schools: three elementary, three middle and two high schools. All are well-run and well-funded schools with committed teachers working with splendid state-of-the-art educational and sports facilities.
For young and older adults, there are numerous colleges and universities, including the state flagship: the University of South Carolina, within a 20-mile radius of the town, offering a wide variety of art, science and professional degrees.
Blythewood is also home to many places of worship that are well attended and provide much support and care to those that live here. They also sponsor many community-based activities and events of their own which contribute to the quality of life of the town. Although Blythewood’s churches are predominantly Christian, most world religions are also represented by organizations a short drive down the road in Columbia, where you will find mosques, temples, and synagogues.
Small Town Living
Quality Schools
Southern Traditions
Convenient Location
Every week in season, there is a farmers market held on the edge of Doko Meadows, the town’s park, where local growers sell their produce, craft vendors sell their wares, a variety of seafood and meats arrive from area farms and coastal fishermen. And in case you are ready to eat when you arrive, food trucks are present offering tasty morsels. While shopping you can hear live music from local musicians and your children play in the park’s first class playground.
As well as the events in Blythewood there are many other ways to have fun and maybe even stay fit at the same time! There are numerous highly rated golf courses, walking, running and horse-back riding trails as well as baseball, football, soccer and lacrosse happening in the schools.
For the big sports, try the Carolina Panthers NFL team and the Charlotte Hornets NBA team in Charlotte or the University of South Carolina’s (USC) Gamecocks football, basketball, national championship baseball and other sports teams just down the road in Columbia. The other fine universities in the Columbia area also have their own teams that draw big crowds. Blythewood itself hosts the USC’s Gamecocks women’s golf team at Cobblestone Park and right across the street, the national champion equestrian team.
An Active Place
A Place Connected
The Location
Because of the proximity of I-77 and three other nearby Interstate highways, Blythewoodians can easily escape to almost anywhere in the region and the world when vacation time calls. It’s an easy drive to the sea and the mountains, to Washington or Orlando. From Blythewood, Charleston is 136 miles, Asheville is 178 miles, Orlando is 472 miles. For farther getaways, Columbia’s airport provides connections to major hubs and smaller airports through out the USA. Charlotte on the other hand is an international hub, in fact the world’s 7th busiest airport, offering flights to destinations thought out the USA and the world.
Charlotte and Columbia boast convention and concert centers, theaters, art and history museums, a NASCAR museum, Riverbanks Zoo, waterparks and Carowinds amusement park.
Real Estate You Can Trust
Home Advantage Realty is proud to be the largest locally owned real estate company with offices in the heart of Blythewood. Our knowledge of the Blythewood area is second to none with several of our agents having roots in Blythewood dating back generations (with roads named after them to prove it).
Home Advantage Realty agents are experts in Blythewood, SC homes for sale, Blythewood, SC land for sale, and Blythewood, SC developments. Whether you are looking to live in the heart of Blythewood, in a rural area outside of Blythewood or live in Columbia and commute to Blythewood, Home Advantage Realty has the agent with the knowledge to help you make the decision that is right for you and your family. Home Advantage Realty welcomes Scout Motors to Blythewood and welcomes you to the Blythewood community.
Scout's Honor Program
The Scout’s Honor Program is an exclusive real estate reward program for Scout Motors employees who are buying a home through Home Advantage Realty.
Employees will receive a 20% buyer’s side commission rebate at closing if no other referral fees are owed. For example, on a $300,000 home purchase with a buyer’s commission of 3%, Home Advantage Realty would rebate $1800 to the purchaser if employed by Scout.