Surfside Beach calls itself The Family Beach, and the housing stock is built for exactly that. The town has 4,254 housing units and 1,610 of them -- 38 percent -- are seasonal, recreational or occasional-use. The rentals skew heavily toward whole houses rather than condo units, and most of them sleep eight or more: three-story beach houses with a bedroom count to match, wrapped around a stairwell, in the grid of streets running back from Ocean Boulevard.
That shape decides what a turnover costs in effort. A house that sleeps ten means beds in volume, towels in volume, three floors of stairs to carry everything up and down, decks and outdoor showers full of sand, and a kitchen that fed a family reunion for a week. It is why the incumbent cleaning companies on this coast quote by the number of stories -- the vertical is the job. In peak season these houses run Saturday to Saturday, so the whole town empties and refills in a single day.
The year-round side of Surfside is small but real. Just over 4,000 people live here full time, the median age is in the late fifties, and a third of residents are 65 or older. That is a recurring house cleaning customer, and it is why we do not treat this town as a turnover-only market.
The new Surfside Beach Fishing Pier opened to walkers in March 2024 -- 800 feet, all concrete, 26 pilings -- replacing the pier Hurricane Matthew destroyed in 2016, and the town has been busier for it. We are about 16 minutes down from Myrtle Beach. Tell us your changeover calendar early; Saturdays here go first.
