CHARLESTON — A month hasn’t passed since the most-expensive, single-family home sale closed in Charleston for $21.028 million and already another listing has come along poised to shatter it.

A historic house built circa 1885 has quietly come on the market for $28 million. If sold for the asking price, it would topple the two previous records — also set this year – by nearly $10 million. In February, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and his listing agents, Cassina Group, set the first standard with the $18.25 million deal brokered for 5 East Battery St.

The latest listing down the street at 25 East Battery is owned by South Carolina entrepreneur Rob Honeycutt and his wife, Julie Honeycutt, who purchased the 11,400-square-foot property along the Charleston Harbor for $7.1 million in

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