While some builders are reporting a cooling-off in the market this fall, no such thing is happening at Shea Homes’ Whispering Pines in southeast Aurora, where three new homes were headed for contract this week and where traffic was picking up with the cooler weather.
“These are buyers who really do their homework; they’ve shopped all of the competing opportunities,” says Shea’s Mac Orlady.
Many of the new arrivals are moving up from older homes in Parker and from nearby areas like Tallyn’s Reach, wanting to keep their Cherry Creek Schools and easy commuting times into the Denver Tech Center and Lone Tree (just 16 minutes when I drove from the DTC via E-470).
Whispering Pines’ centerpiece is a 24-acre ridgetop reserve for Black Forest pines, and Shea’s homes are arrayed so that around half back to that and other open space.
Thatap the case on a Coulter Pine ranch — three bedrooms, 3-1/2 baths and 4,033 square feet of finished space — that Orlady and Todd Middendorp can show you, ready for move-in.
The price is $875,112 for a home that includes finished basement space with a third guest bedroom suite, along with a full three-car garage that shows a side-facing carriage bay for a show car.
Lots of ranch plans offer wide-open great rooms, but this one has surprising depth, rendered all the more appealing by engineered hardwood floors that span the full-width of the main level, and by a contemporary gas-ribbon fireplace that reaches across a wide, stone tile chase.
All of that opens to a covered outdoor living area by way of cascading glass sliders, bringing in the pine-covered open space behind the home. That very private view is shared by the master suite with designer bath with tile floors, approached by a secluded entry from the great room.
Shea has loaded the home with extras including whole-house sound, wrought-iron banisters on a wide staircase to the finished lower level, plantation shutters, a whole-house vacuum system, and a designer kitchen with quartz counters, two-tone Tolani maple graphite perimeter cabinets, and stainless appliances including a trendy range hood.
Three doors up, you’ll see a trailhead into the park and beyond that where Whispering Pines is finishing a lodge-style clubhouse and pool.
You’ll hear about Cherry Creek Schools’ Fox Ridge/Cherokee Trail high/middle school campus, five minutes from Whispering Pines via newly opened Sampson Gulch Way to Powhaton Road — close to a new King Soopers Marketplace and lots of retail, heading toward Southlands.
Shea has homes here from $537,900.
Take E-470 to the Gartrell exit, head south on Gartrell a block to Aurora Parkway, turn left a mile to Irish Drive, and head east (Irish becomes Sampson Gulch) 0.7 mile to Haleyville Way.
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