April 2016

There are plenty of great reasons to live in a master planned community. Amenities like pools and tennis courts are plentiful, a sense of neighborliness abounds, and homes are usually new and customizable. Charlotte buyers are in the midst of a planned community boom in the area and it couldn’t come soon enough. Inventory’s been incredibly low, but some new huge developments on the horizon should help.

Let’s take a look at some of the Charlotte planned neighborhoods with the most buzz for 2016…

Waverly
Waverly is set to be the Birkdale Village of south Charlotte. A David Weekely development, Waverly will have over 50 single family homes on 15 acres in addition to hundreds of muti-family units in townhome and apartment styles. The real draw here

What do you do when you're actively in the market to buy a home, come across one that you absolutely love, make an offer, and find out that you’re in the middle of a bidding war? Or maybe several people made offers, and now you’re scrambling to even have a place at the table? Bidding wars are not uncommon in the Charlotte real estate market which is currently considered to be a seller's market). In a cases like these, sellers may simply accept the offer that looks most attractive to them or they may come back to all parties and say, "We are currently in a multiple offer situation. Please submit your highest and best offer no later than X-0'clock tomorrow."

Any buyer who’s found themselves in this situation and lost out on a great property knows the