The Cliffs, a collection of seven private luxury mountain and lake club communities in the western Carolinas, today announced that 271 transactions totaling nearly $171 million closed in 2018 in combined developer sales and property resales. This compares to 258 transactions and nearly $133 million in 2017, representing a 23% increase in dollar volume. Properties within The Cliffs are consistently ranked among the highest dollar-volume residential real estate transactions each year in the Upstate of South Carolina and western North Carolina. The communities are thriving with a total of 1,716 completed homes and 139 homes under construction to date.