Production builders report increasing numbers of buyers now who are looking for “multi-gen” plans, hoping to bring mom and dad along on their next move, maybe to help watch the kids.
Builders are offering ways to make that happen — but certainly no better than on a house that Realtor Joan Pratt will show you Sunday, Aug. 19, in Bell Mountain Ranch, five minutes south of Castle Rock.
At 990 Glade Gulch Road, you’ll see a remodeled six-bedroom walkout ranch at $1 million with 5,748 finished square feet — 1,500 feet in a private, designer apartment downstairs with two bedrooms, two baths, full kitchen, and its own entrance to a backyard with garden, trees and a recirculating waterfall.
Like all homes in Bell Mountain, it has a lot that goes on and on — 2-1/2 acres, 20 times the size of typical new subdivision lots, emptying into views of the back ranges and 2,000 acres of community open space.
Thatap one of two walkout ranches Pratt will show you, serving lunch with wine and beer in one, desserts in the other. The second, at 4578 High Spring Road, is $749,000 for 4,846 finished feet, with a finished basement that could be a grannie flat or work for a kid returning to the nest. The 2.6-acre lot is dotted with Gambel oak, showing views of the piney buttes.
Pratt adds it has the lowest price-per-foot of any ranch in Bell Mountain, with 11 homes listed, two over $1.7 million. The tradeoff for a big site is a 25-minute drive to the Tech Center (the seller on High Spring told me he rides his bike into Starbucks in Castle Rock).
Both homes have three-car garages and get community water, high-speed internet, city gas, trails and picnic areas.
Boosting the value proposition are an interchange planned for I-25 at Crystal Valley Parkway, and the first new-home building in years, reportedly in the $1 million range.
From the frontage road, head east on Bell Mountain Parkway a half mile, then continue east as it becomes Glade Gulch.
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