Confidence is back! We are seeing a tremendous bounce in the housing market. The Southcliff community is creating jobs by putting architects and construction employees back to work with five houses under construction and five houses under review. In fact, two residents recently bought the Southcliff lots next to their own homes as investment lots. Now that’s confidence! “This shows incredible assurance in the market as buyers are investing hundreds of thousands of dollars here in Asheville,” notes Mike Romero, Managing Broker of Southcliff. “It speaks volumes that buyers are buying land.” Indeed, 50% of all single family lots in Southcliff ’s Phase One are sold.

The Southcliff Community is what you hoped living in Western North Carolina would be, with panoramic high elevation views, just minutes to Asheville. In fact, Southcliff is the closest gated community to downtown Asheville at only 7.8 miles from the heart of the energetic city—and now you will be able to view two new model homes. Southcliff is building on the success of the past twelve months by introducing their first model home in years—The Alexandra. “You can now come to the Southcliff community and walk through what your vision of your home will look like,” notes Romero. The Alexandra will be open in time for the Parade of Homes in October. A second model home, the Rockcliff, will complete in January and has already seen success. Though it is only framed-in, one resident fell in love with the Rockcliff floor plan and is building the plan on another lot!

Southcliff is fortunate to partner with Sean Sullivan, President of Living Stone Construction, as one of ten featured builders. Living Stone Construction is a past Parade of Homes winner, and a past North Carolina Home Builder Association star award winner. Romero carries the message of the buyer to Sullivan who translates that vision into the model. “He is a great listener and understands what buyers are looking for.” Vaulted ceilings, luxury baths, and open floorplans become a reality under Sullivan’s hand. He also creates kitchens as a focal point, a place to bring families together and bring gatherings into the home. “I’m excited to meet the market
demand for this size of house and price point,” notes Sullivan, “and we feel like we’ve done that with the Alexandra.” The model is truly the highest quality possible with best value price.

The East Owl Creek neighborhood, which boasts the model, has only 12 homesites remaining out of an initial 49. The model is a universal design and appeals to a wide range of lifestyles. Families with children will find plenty of room, older couples can tweak the design for a mother-in-law suite and buyers who are aging-in-place will be able to enjoy main-level living. “We’ve really met the demand for this type of home,” notes Sullivan who adds that people are coming out of woodwork for such a large sized home with high quality finishes.

Being a debt free community offers Southcliff incredible flexibility. The developer has invested over 300 million purchasing real estate in the U.S. in the past 18 months so new buyers can be confident in their investment because of the financial strength of the developer. In contrast to other communities, Southcliff has never had a home site foreclosure. And with 14 lots sold in the last 12 months, Southcliff is a growing community, offering residents a lot of stability.

Southcliff is very excited to be sponsoring the Parade of Homes this year and to have the model totally complete and furnished. The Alexandra model will be the feature house in the parade. “We had over 1000 people last year and we expect more this year,” notes Romero who is already getting phone calls from out-of-town visitors. A lot home package with the Alexandra starts at just $432,224!

The Parade of Homes is held on October 13-14 & 20-21. Southcliff ’s Alexandra model will be open for self-guided tours from 12 noon until 5pm on each day of the Parade of Homes weekends. For more information call the Southcliff office at 1-866-844-0660.