With five weeks to go, Meritage Homes wants to change where you’ll be hanging your stocking this Christmas — by cutting prices on a dozen homes in five popular Denver area communities with homes that could be ready right away. All of them have Meritage’s signature energy features that are designed to create snugger winter nights and cooler summer days.
You can experience that difference of Meritage’s technology in an “Energy Information Centers” on display in its model homes — including at master-planned Inspiration in Douglas County, two miles south of E-470 at Gartrell Road, where Meritage has two large-family homes with three-car garages, each discounted by more than $40,000, and a third reduced almost $37,000.
One of those homes is a four-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath plan, on track to be ready for a holiday move-in. It had been listed at $570,532; but Meritage has it marked down this weekend by $40,542, to $529,990.
Inspiration is a rare chance to find new-home size and features in Denver’s south/southeast corridor, where prices for resale homes have climbed rapidly in recent years. Kids in Meritage’s neighborhood at Inspiration attend Douglas County Schools in Parker, and are connected by trails to a pool club with event lawn — among a package of recreational amenities there. Residents also enjoy a surprisingly quick commute into the Denver Tech Center, Lone Tree and other south I-25 business campuses (as short as 15 minutes on my trip out from I-25 at Belleview), as well as to DIA.
You can also find Home-for-the-Holidays discounts in three other parts of the metro area, including at fast-selling Leyden Rock in west Arvada, where Meritage has discounts on the last four homes it will offer there.
In Thornton, you’ll find big reductions at two well-situated neighborhoods: At Aspen Reserve, north of 120th Avenue on Quebec Street, you can tour a four-bedroom home at 12344 Olive Way, previously priced at $492,895 — marked down $42,905 to $449,990. A mile northwest, at Meritage’s Lewis Pointe west of Holly on 144th, you can tour a four-bedroom home with three-and-a-half baths and a three-car garage, previously at $577,714 — marked down $27,724 to $549,990.
Meritage also has a big-family home waiting — thatap served by Cherry Creek Schools — at Highline in Aurora, south of East Mississippi Avenue at Fulton Street. Itap sized at four bedrooms, 3,213 of finished space, plus basement and three-car garage, previously at $544,653 — marked down by $44,663 to $499,990. On that and all of the homes ready now, you’ll see eye-catching interiors, both in the entertaining areas and on the bedroom suite level, wide-open kitchen-dining spaces and upstairs laundries.
What you WON’T see are the features hidden behind the walls to make these homes work well in Colorado’s climate. But be sure to visit the Energy Information Center in the model to see all that you’ll get — and glance upward in some of the model homes for ceiling cutaways that show Meritage’s polyurethane insulation, designed to keep attic temperatures within seven degrees of your indoor thermostat setting.
Sales must be approved by Meritage by Nov. 30, and close by year end. To reach Inspiration in Douglas County, take E-470 to Gartrell Road and head south two miles to Minnow Drive; or from Parker, take Inspiration Drive east from Pine Drive. To visit Leyden Rock, take Indiana Street north to West 80th Avenue and head west. For Aspen Reserve, from I-25 take 120th Avenue east four miles to Quebec and turn north. For Lewis Pointe, take 144th east three miles. To reach Highline in Aurora, take Mississippi east from Parker Road/Leetsdale Drive a mile-and-a-half to South Fulton.
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