Getting your player ready...
When retirement-ranch builder Del Webb packed up and left 55-and-older Anthem Ranch early this year, everybody knew that buyers would be forming a line for whatever builder would take its place. Ranch plans sold so fast at Anthem during 2012 that in some months they disappeared at one-per-day; and when Del Webb’s model show homes went on the market in March, some drew prices close to $900,000. But this is the day you can come see what’s next for Anthem Ranch – a new builder with great ranch experience, and a new neighborhood with lots of walkout and garden level sites that are a perfect match for ranch living.
Toll Brothers won’t have finished model homes to show until early next year – but that isn’t slowing down any buyers who have waited for their chance to be in Anthem Ranch, south of Highway 7 at Lowell. When Toll Brothers released 16 ranch sites in May, buyers were waiting in line, scooping up every one in two hours. “We’re still obviously in a market where people are eager to downsize,” says Leslie Reed, who’ll be on hand today with Melanie McKenna to show you those new Toll Brothers plans (they start from as low as the $315s), and the sites coming available in Longview Village – a neighborhood that’ll have the highest elevation in Anthem Ranch, close to the community’s popular Aspen Lodge recreation center. Some buyers, she adds, have been watching Anthem Ranch for as long as four years now – only to find that even older homes in the community are selling in seven-to-ten days now. “People from Boulder can’t find anything remotely close to this,” Reed adds. “They feel like they’re close to Boulder but out of the congestion.” Others coming from out of state, to be near Colorado kids and grandkids, like Anthem Ranch’s reputation for ‘instant friendships’ that form around the pulsating social life at Aspen Lodge with its resort-style pool, fitness center and 48 miles of surrounding trail, all for remarkably low HOA fees. And all of them, she says, appreciate Toll Brothers’ standard features – nice use of hardwoods, granite kitchens, and plenty of familiarity in working with discerning tastes. Another set of lots are to be released next week, but demand is high (of 30 released to date, 25 are already in the contract process). A $1,000 deposit holds a site 10 days through qualification, then to contract. To see Toll Brothers’ information center at Longview Village, from Denver take I-25 north just past 470 to Highway 7, then west three miles to Lowell and south a mile to the second entry to Anthem Ranch Road; or from Boulder, take Baseline east 12 miles to Lowell. WHERE: Toll Brothers at Anthem Ranch, 55-and-older community; new release of sites; walkouts and garden-levels available; view new neighborhood home sites & plans. 4118 San Luis Way, Broomfield; I-25 north past 470 to Hwy 7, west 3 mi. to Lowell, left (south) 1 mile to SECOND entrance to Anthem Ranch Rd, west; or from Boulder, take Baseline east 12 miles, past Lafayette, to Lowell PRICE: Single-family ranches from $315s WHEN: Open today & daily 10 a.m.until 6 p.m.
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