Even without Meritage Homes’ super-sustainable energy design, just the Broomfield location alone could account for why the builder’s new Vista Highlands neighborhood has sold so rapidly: just 18 homes left after barely a year of sales.
This may have the best commuter access in the entire north metro area now — 10 minutes to Orchard Town Center, Denver Premium Outlets and other new attractions on I-25; 10 minutes to Interlocken and Flatiron Crossing; 20 minutes to Boulder; 25 minutes to downtown or DIA.
Meritage’s Kelsey Ostenson, who sold another ranch the night before I toured, says she’s getting buyers who take advantage of all of those destinations, including some that work in Boulder’s Foothills Parkway tech corridor.
“They like the schools and the shopping thatap in walking distance,” she adds, noting that she sees residents returning with groceries on foot from a new King Soopers Marketplace, just west along Colorado 7.
But Meritage’s buyers really do appreciate the energy design, as well.
“I would never buy another home without that insulation,” the ranch buyer told Ostenson, referring to the polyurethane spray insulation, designed to keep attic temperatures within 7 degrees of indoor temperature settings.
Meritage can show you that system in an Energy Information Center in the ranch and family-sized two-story show homes at Vista Highlands, just north of Highway 7/Baseline, west of Sheridan Parkway
If you like the looks of those, Ostenson and Travis McKercher will show you two similar designs that are ready for move-in now, in time for Thanksgiving dinner in the new place.
Those include a Platte ranch — three bedrooms plus an office, 1,819 square feet finished plus a partial basement, priced at $528,450.
Ostenson says ranches at Vista Highlands are luring buyers ready for single-level living after years in older two-stories, but they also draw younger families now. “Younger buyers often don’t want the maintenance,” she adds.
She can also show you a Northgate ranch with an oversized two-car garage, and a four-bedroom, 2-1/2-bath Waterton two-story, over 2,600 feet finished, at $560,000.
In addition to some other homes headed for delivery later this year, you can see some final sites at Vista Highlands where Meritage could put together one of its family-sized plans with a walk-out basement.
You’ll see the neighborhood’s pretty, centerpiece park, how close this is to Children’s Hospital’s north campus and to the National Archives’ Denver Federal Records Center.
Take I-25 north past E-470 to Highway 7, head west to Sheridan and turn north to W. 169th, then east; or from Boulder, take Baseline east to Sheridan.
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