Getting your player ready...
If soaring prices of ranch-only communities this Halloween have you spooked, Oakwood Homes has three ranches to show you in Fairway Villas — its age-55-plus lifestyle community beside Green Valley Ranch Golf Club — all of them on track for move-in by Christmas. That means you could be moved-in for a busy season of holiday parties at Fairway Villas that starts with a Halloween party at Fairway Villas’ clubhouse Oct. 31. And Oakwood can get you an invite to that one, to try out the Fairway Villas lifestyle.
The Halloween Party next Saturday night, with music, eats and drinks (the locals will be in costume), is just a hint of a social calendar that residents seem to appreciate as much as they do their very creative ranch-style home designs. From noon until 2 p.m. today at the Clubhouse two blocks east of Oakwood’s ranch model homes, you’ll see neighbors turned out for a ‘Trunk-or-Treat’ event – a chance to let grandkids pick up Halloween goodies from the trunks of residents’ cars. (You’re welcome to drop by with your own grandkids). Those homes have sold rapidly all year – but Oakwood is pushing for more deliveries for 2016, and has three of them ahead of the schedule that you could be moved into by the time the tinsel and mistletoe are unboxed. You can tour a Cypress ranch model home, and if you like its looks, you’ll find another one near the Clubhouse that’ll be wrapped up for Christmas, with two bedrooms including a gorgeous master suite, and 2-½ baths, plus more finished space on a Smart Space level upstairs, for $376,122. If you have the slightest worry about how values have trended as Fairway Villas takes shape, consider that the neighborhood had three resale homes on the market this month – but each one already sold. Visit Fairway Villas today, and ask for tickets to the Halloween Party; and take a look at the rich assortment of amenities that help foster all of that neighborly interaction: the Clubhouse with a non-stop calendar of events organized by a full-time activities director, who coordinates painting classes, water sports in the indoor-outdoor pools, a hiking club, cooking classes, a knock-around golf group, and exceedingly popular yoga classes. Residents get reduced green fees and advance tee times on Green Valley Ranch’s pretty championship course behind the club – and play the par-3 course there for free. And while driving to the Clubhouse, look at the community park and garden in the neighborhood, where residents were gathering their tomatoes this week in advance of colder weather. Oakwood’s prices at Fairway Villas start from the low $300s – for big single-family ranches, not duplexes or townhomes – and amenities that are covered by metro district: no HOA dues. To visit, take Peña (DIA freeway) north to E. 56th, then east 1.2 miles to Dunkirk and right to 54th Place. WHERE: Fairway Villas, Green Valley Ranch Golf Club by Oakwood Homes, 55-and-older enclave, invitations to Halloween party available at clubhouse with bar, workout area & pool, 3 ranches ready for pre-holiday move-in. 19394 E. 54th Pl., Denver; take Peña Blvd (DIA Fwy) north to E. 56th, east 1.2 mi. (past Tower) to Dunkirk, right to E. 54th; or from Green Valley Ranch Blvd, take Himalaya north PRICE: Golf community living from low $300sFollow Mark Samuelson on Twitter:
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