Source: Post and Courier — 

The Aiken County real estate market is sizzling, as anyone who has paid attention to recent trends knows.

The average sales price of a home is the highest it’s been in the last five years, with the number of units closed also beating the year-to-date data from the past five years.

″(The market’s) hot for Aiken,” said Donna Taylor, a Meybohm Real Estate vice president and associate broker based in Aiken.