At a moment when many home buyers are working from home at least part of the week and plan to keep doing so, KB Home will give you a good reason to widen your home search to include the town of Longmont, close to the foothills northeast of Boulder. Today you can come preview two new models there with starting prices from $425,990 — well below new home prices in the surrounding area, and way below what shoppers are seeing closer into downtown Denver in Broomfield, Thornton and Westminster.
At Prairie Village, off Highway 66 a mile east of Longmontap Main Street, you can tour two of KB Home’s very popular Villa paired-home models — two homes designed together with the size that newer homes show, at a cost-per-foot well below what builders can match for single-family models.
“These are priced to make a huge difference for families that aren’t finding anything reasonable around Denver or Boulder,” says Randy Carpenter, Division President of KB Home Colorado.
“Longmont has a small-town Colorado feel in a setting where mountain recreation is up close,” Carpenter adds. “And the shopping and dining match anything you’re seeing in Broomfield or Westminster.”
Paired homes have been fast sellers wherever KB Home has offered them, including in Erie and Broomfield. At Prairie Village, you’ll see a budget-priced 1,463-foot home with three bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths, plus a 2-car attached garage, that even with some optional items included can be delivered from under $450,000.
If you can reach a little further, you’ll tour a design with a main-floor study that offers 1,963 finished square feet, including a loft/playroom area on the second level beside the bedrooms. In addition to the models, KB Home has four homes underway that will deliver this fall or early winter from $488,622; including two of that larger plan, each with an unfinished basement, from $534,687.
The price per foot on these drops even further if you order one of these with finished basement space for a fourth bedroom plus a rec room, creating a home of well over 2,500 sq. feet, at a price more than a hundred thousand dollars less than the median home price in surrounding Boulder County ($708,000).
All of these get lower-maintenance landscaping and a fenced side yard for a garden or for your doodle-breed to wander (HOA fees are projected to be just $55/month). And all have energy and water conservation features certified by a third-party inspector to meet or beat Energy Star and EPA’s WaterSense standards.
You’ll see how close this is to Rough and Ready Park, Union Reservoir, a King Soopers, and the city’s Ute Creek Golf Course. Take I-25 north from E-470/Northwest Pkwy to Highway 66 and head west to Alpine Street. Or from Boulder, take the Diagonal north nine miles to Hover Street, head north to Hwy 66 and turn east.
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