Sarah Chen

Downtown & Historic District Specialist

Sarah Chen

Specialty: Downtown Charleston Historic District, Harleston Village, Daniel Island

Sarah Chen has sold real estate on the Charleston peninsula for 8 years. Before joining Coastal Realty Group in 2021, she worked independently in the downtown market, building a reputation for knowing the flood zone situation street-by-street and the HOA politics building-by-building.

That hyperlocal knowledge is the reason Rachel recruited her. Downtown Charleston is a different animal — historic preservation rules, complex HOAs, parking constraints, flood insurance requirements, and price swings between blocks that would surprise anyone without local context.

Sarah handles the historic district from Calhoun Street south, including Harleston Village, Wagener Terrace, and South of Broad. She also covers Daniel Island, which feels like a completely different world but benefits from her same attention to community-specific detail.

She's a fluent Mandarin speaker, which has been useful in working with the growing number of Chinese-American buyers relocating to Charleston from major tech cities.

Her average transaction price in the downtown district is over $900K. Her listing-to-sale price ratio is 102%, which means sellers consistently net more than list.