957 Travers Drive, Charleston, SC 29412

Lakefront on James Island, under 4 miles from downtown. Yes, really.Some houses have a nice yard. This one has a front-row seat on Lake Frances: ospreys diving out of the trees to snatch their dinner, egrets and blue herons standing statue-still in the shallows waiting for theirs, and on sunny evenings, huge mullet leaping out of the water like they're putting on a show. You'll watch all of it from your own private dock, coffee in hand.The house is an elevated four-bedroom, three-bath in Lawton Bluff, the kind of established James Island neighborhood where houses rarely change hands. The lake is brackish, fed by Charleston Harbor, and the fishing is legitimately good. When the evening's right, drop a boat in with an electric motor and take a sunset cruise toward the harbor.Inside, a vaulted family room opens through sliding glass doors to the deck and the water beyond. The updated kitchen anchors the main floor with a five-burner gas range, deep farmhouse sink, butcher-block counters,...