▾The Residence
Completely reimagined inside the gates of Port Royal Plantation, 9 Fort Walker Drive is a 4-bedroom, 3-bath residence of 2,791 square feet set on a private 0.6-acre golf course homesite — a turnkey Hilton Head Island home for buyers who intend to live here year-round rather than rent. The remodel runs top to bottom. Single-level living opens across a light-filled plan beneath soaring vaulted ceilings, with wide-plank flooring and shiplap walls carrying a quiet, coastal register through the house. Picturesque fairway views frame the back of the property, where there is ample room to build a backyard oasis and a custom pool. Port Royal Plantation remains one of the island's most settled addresses: a staffed gate, resident-exclusive shoreline, and a 90-day minimum lease term that keeps short-term rental off the table and the neighborhood residential by design.
The Highlights
Set on a half-acre-plus homesite within the gates of Port Royal, this residence looks out across manicured fairways from its deck and covered porch, where the island's maritime canopy frames every view. Soaring ceilings lift the 2,791 square feet of living space, while a main-level primary suite keeps daily life gracefully on one floor. Four bedrooms, three baths, and a two-car garage complete a home built for the quiet rhythm of golf-course living.
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The Setting
Port Royal Plantation is a gated residential enclave on the northern end of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, extending from the Atlantic Ocean shoreline across a landscape of maritime forest, freshwater lagoons, and golf fairways. The community is known for its roughly three miles of oceanfront beach and a naturalistic setting that has shaped its low-density, wooded character since development began decades ago.
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Realtor
Christopher "Chris" Hughes is an experienced, licensed real estate professional with Coast Professionals Brokered by eXp Realty on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Having lived on Hilton Head Island since his youth, he possesses deep, localized expertise in the Lowcountry property market.
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Questions
No — inside the gate, short-term rentals are not permitted under the Port Royal POA covenants. 9 Fort Walker Drive sits inside the gated Plantation, so it is a primary-residence or long-term-lease home rather than a nightly-rental play.
Inside the gate, minimum lease terms run from 90 days to six months depending on the covenant provision. Any rental under 30 days would be a short-term rental, which the Plantation does not allow. Your agent can confirm the exact current term with the POA.
Because the name spans two regimes split at the gate. Port Royal Plantation — the gated residential community this home is in — prohibits short-term rentals; the Wimbledon Court villas outside the gate carry no Port Royal POA and do permit them. Third-party sites often label those villas "Port Royal Plantation."
Yes — primary residences and year-round ownership are the dominant pattern here, which is largely a function of the no-short-term-rental covenant. The community sits on the island's north end, minutes from the primary commercial corridors and Hilton Head Airport.
No. Port Royal Golf & Racquet Club is semi-private, and membership is not required to purchase property here — a real contrast with communities like Wexford that bundle golf into the POA. You can own this home and buy golf access separately, or not at all.
Dues differ by section of the community, and Ocean Point homes carry an additional POA charge plus an elected-refuse charge — so there is no single "Port Royal POA fee." Your agent will pull the POA-published figure for this specific homesite before you write an offer.
Yes — the POA record shows a transfer fee assessed as a percentage of the sale price, payable at closing. Some secondary community guides still say otherwise; the POA record is authoritative. The published rate comes directly from the POA, and your agent will confirm it in writing.
The community holds roughly three miles of shoreline on the Atlantic and Port Royal Sound, reserved for residents and their guests, with 19 beachwalk paths. There is also a Beach House with catering kitchen plus an Olympic-sized pool and kiddie pool overlooking the Sound.
Yes — entry is through a 24-hour staffed gatehouse at 10A Coggins Point Road, with regular patrols throughout the community's roughly 970 homesites.
A separate operator: Heritage Golf Group runs Port Royal Golf & Racquet Club — three 18-hole courses (Barony, Planter's Row, Robber's Row), 16 tennis courts and a croquet court. The POA governs the residential community; it does not run the club.
Yes — at 2,791 square feet rebuilt top to bottom on a 0.6-acre fairway homesite behind a staffed gate, it is priced within the island's $1M+ segment, where trailing-twelve-month luxury median closings reached $1.36M and sellers have been landing near 96% of list.
Annual carry is POA dues for this section of Port Royal plus standard taxes, insurance and utilities; golf membership is optional, not bundled. At closing, budget for the POA transfer fee, which is a percentage of the sale price. Your agent will produce the exact figures from the POA record.
It has been completely remodeled top to bottom — a turnkey four-bedroom, three-bath residence with soaring ceilings, a main-level primary suite, deck and porch, and a two-car garage, on a 0.6-acre golf-course homesite with room to add a custom pool.
The 0.6-acre golf-course homesite offers ample space to create a backyard oasis, including room for a custom pool. Plans would go through the POA's architectural review and Town permitting, and your agent can walk you through that sequence.
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