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Not inside the gate — Port Royal Plantation's POA covenants set minimum lease terms of 90 days to six months, so nightly and weekly rentals are not permitted. 4 Robbers Row sits inside the gate, so it is a primary-residence or long-term-lease home, not a vacation-rental play.

Inside the gate is the gated residential plantation — predominantly single-family homes under the Port Royal POA, where short-term rentals are prohibited. "PR Outside Gate" is a separate MLS area of Wimbledon Court villas with no Port Royal POA fee, where short-term rentals are permitted.

Yes — year-round primary residences are the dominant ownership pattern here, which is part of why the lease minimums exist. The community is residential in character rather than resort, with a 24-hour staffed gatehouse, roughly 970 homesites and low-density maritime forest throughout.

No. Golf here is semi-private and club membership is not required to purchase — Port Royal Golf & Racquet Club is operated by Heritage Golf Group, separate from the POA. That is the real contrast with Wexford, where golf is included in the POA dues.

Dues differ by section rather than running off one island-wide number, and Ocean Point homes carry an additional POA charge plus an elected-refuse charge. A transfer fee does apply, assessed as a percentage of the sale price. Christopher Hughes can confirm the current published figures for this specific section.

The community holds roughly three miles of shoreline on the Atlantic and Port Royal Sound, exclusive to residents and their guests, reached by 19 beachwalk paths. The Beach Club, completed in January 2019, adds a beach house with catering kitchen plus an Olympic-sized pool and kiddie pool overlooking the Sound.

Inside the gate, minimum lease terms run from 90 days to six months under the POA covenants. That rules out nightly and weekly stays but leaves seasonal and annual leasing available to an owner at 4 Robbers Row.

All four restrict short-term rentals, so each reads as a residential community rather than a rental market. Port Royal's distinction is oceanfront shoreline on the Atlantic and Port Royal Sound with optional semi-private golf; Wexford includes golf in its POA dues, while Hilton Head Plantation and Indigo Run are interior.

Yes — entry is through a 24-hour staffed gatehouse with regular patrols, governed by the Port Royal POA on the island's north end. The gate is also the line that defines the covenants, including the lease minimums.

Port Royal Plantation and Spanish Wells are the two the island's long-term residents gravitate to, with primary residences as the dominant pattern. Hilton Head Plantation, Indigo Run, Long Cove Club, Palmetto Hall, Wexford and Windmill Harbour also enforce lease minimums that keep vacation rentals out.

Short-term income is off the table inside the gate, but leases of 90 days to six months are permitted — a seasonal or annual tenant is the available path. Owners here typically underwrite the purchase on personal year-round use rather than rental offset.

Yes — this is a .58-acre golf course homesite under mature specimen oaks inside a community of roughly 970 lots with residents-only shoreline, and the price reflects land value in that setting. Island detached homes have been closing near 96% of list, so the number is grounded, not aspirational.

Either works. The 1968 one-level residence is beautifully maintained with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2,047 square feet, an open floor plan, a main-level primary suite, a 1-car garage and a porch — livable now, while the half-acre-plus homesite supports a future build.