Getting your player ready...
Wherever you’re standing in this frenzied market – anxious to sell your older house in favor of a nicer neighborhood, or trying to get out of a rental and into building some equity – you have only a single week to tour three sharp-looking by Oakwood Homes off E. 104th at Potomac Street, before Oakwood releases 12 sites there next Saturday.
Oakwood’s prices in Turnberry at Potomac Farms, a half mile west of the new King Soopers Marketplace, start at just $287,000 – and Jeff Lopez says you’re going to be able to get into these lots for under $300,000, even after figuring in the site particulars. They’re a short walk from Brighton 27-J’s new Turnberry Elementary (getting an 8-for-10-star rating now from GreatSchools.org) and from a new park Commerce City is creating. A few homes will back to a conservation easement. Last Saturday, Oakwood released six sites – but saw all of them disappear to buyers by the end of the weekend. “This is an opportunity to stay under the pricing of other builders,” says Oakwood’s Jeff Lopez, who’ll show you the models tomorrow (on Worchester Drive a block west of Potomac, close to 104th) and the sites, a half mile north. But this is also a time to take advantage of the dynamic that new homes offer right now compared to what resale homes do – which according to some reports have been running up in price way faster than new homes have. “I talk to people every day who are seeing bidding wars on resale homes,” Lopez said. Lopez will show you Oakwood’s standard features – laminate wood floor, granite tile, and 42-inch cabinet uppers in the kitchen; and Oakwood’s highly respected energy package – the only builder that’ll guarantee your energy bills for the coming two years. And he’ll explain a few moderately priced options that can deliver a lot of extra value: a full-wide 3-car garage (on some sites); or a full-basement finish. When you tour the Gunnison ranch (it’s from only $312,000) you’ll see an upstairs ‘smart space’ that you can optionally have done as a guest bedroom/bath. That ranch is cutting across demographic lines in its appeal, says Lopez – attracting buyers that have spent decades in two-story homes that want single-level living; but some younger buyers, too. Oakwood’s site release is next Saturday, at the sales center, at 10 a.m. – but you need to see these today to be up to speed for that event. “This release is likely to go quickly, but it’s nowhere near as competitive as what you’ve probably been through in the resale market,” Lopez says. Potomac Farms is just west on 104th from Potomac Street; take Hwy 85 to 104th and head three miles east to Potomac, turn north a block to 104th Way and turn west. Or from the E-470 Beltway (pretty close, and offering a quick commute either to DIA or the Boulder/Flatirons corridor) take 104th west three miles to Worchester.
