A Cheap Castle in South Carolina Is Most Popular House of the Week

By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Jan 12, 2:31PM EST · Published Feb 25, 8:40AM EST

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[cnxvideo id=”625490″ placement=”ros”]It must be hard to find a 4,500 square foot castle on the market for $389,900. There is one, in a very remote area of South Carolina.

The house at 875 White Horse Road Extension, Travelers Rest, South Carolina, has five bedrooms, three full baths and one half-bath. It sits on 10 acres. The house was built in 2005.

Travelers Rest is in the middle of nowhere. It has a population of 4,994. The racial makeup of the city is 77% white and 18% African American. Median household income is low at just under $35,000. A little less than 16% of people live in poverty, which is about the national average.

The closest city to the address is Greenville.

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A small section of the listing:

This is a very unique property. It is silent. The wind crosses the ridge and all you can hear is it’s whisper and that of the birds. With the leaves bare as they are now you can see the striking silhouette of their limbs against the blue South Carolina sky, reminding us of why we want this kind of silence in our lives. If this property has caught your attention don’t want to miss this opportunity. We have a septic system, and there is public water. There is a security alarm in the house which can be activated, as well as 3 heating units which keep the well insulated home warm. Let your imagination run wild here. Traveler’s Rest is a very special place. Make it yours. Not everyone can say they live in a castle!

The median value of homes for sale in Travelers Rest is $115,000. By local standards, the house is expensive.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.