Getting your player ready...
In scenic country around The Ridge at Castle Pines Golf Course, Village Homes’ Jackie Mullen sold a dozen patio homes last year, mostly ranches, without being able to show anybody a finished model home. That changes today, when Village grand-opens its ‘Sagewood’ ranch at The Crossings at Castle Pines North – two bedroom suites and a study on the main, 1,801 square feet, plus a walk-out that Village will finish at low cost as a rec room and guest suite for a total of 2,765 feet.
“I had nothing to show, and they still bought,” says Mullen, who has a deep list of people from Highlands Ranch and other areas who keep circling the low-maintenance enclave. Now with a real model (it has a gorgeous interior, terrific kitchen and entertaining area with a 2-way fireplace, and a view-master suite) and only ten single-family sites left, Mullen says it doesn’t take a math genius to figure that anybody still looking at this by next season will have to go elsewhere.
“Everybody that has seen it loves it,” she says about Village’s new model. (Prices run from the $290s into the low $4s for single family ranches; Village also has a half-dozen patio townhomes from the $220s, including a walk-out ranch you can tour.) Down the lane, you can peek inside one ‘Camden’ ranch that will deliver in late summer – two-bedrooms plus study, with a basement walkout. It’s priced right now at $341,000 before its design center package is added in – probably another $30,000 depending on what options you would choose.
Or, you could bet that your current pad will take a few months to sell, and pick one of the remaining sites where Village would build a ranch from the ground up. But Mullen says the re-sale market may be better than you think: Her last buyer contracted on a ground-start…only to find that their home in Larkspur sold in only ten days. They switched instead to one of the ready-to-move ranches.
As part of the package, residents get abundant surrounding open space, the popular public golf course, and the small-town feel of Castle Pines North’s grocery shopping and dining (La Dolce Vita, La Fajita’s, Duke’s Steakhouse) along Castle Pines Parkway. “They like it because it’s quiet,” Mullen notes. “If they want to drive past lots of big stores, they can go into Park Meadows or the Factory Stores.” You’ll also see Village’s new, lower-priced townhomes – two that can deliver soon, plus another four sites, all that will ever be built. Village’s grand opening at The Crossings is a mile west of I-25 on Castle Pines Parkway to Bristolwood, just before the golf course.
If you go…
WHERE: Grand opening, luxury low-maintenance ranch model in The Crossings at Castle Pines North, Village Homes, low maintenance enclave with ranch/main-floor master plans; walk-out sites. 7628 Bristolwood Ln., Castle Pines North; take I-25 south, past Park Meadows, 6 mi. to Castle Pines Pkwy; west 1 mi., just past Monarch Blvd., to first right on Bristolwood
PRICE: Patio ranches from $290s; townhomes from $220s
WHEN: Today, Saturday, Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
PHONE: 303-660-9309
WEB: VillageHomes.com
Mark Samuelson is president of Samuelson & Associates, a homebuilding/real estate communications firm. You can e-mail him at mark@samuelsonassoc.com.
