By Claude Cross

Here’s a simple glimpse at top rated custom home communities in connection with Ballantyne, inside of South Charlotte, NC.

The three featured residential areas we will examine include The Ballantyne Country Club, Kensington at Ballantyne and Highgrove. All three offer up some of Charlotte’s best custom architects and the trademark neighborhoods to which they contributed.

We’ll get started with the Ballantyne Country Club.

Ballantyne Country Club, price points start off at approximately $500,000 and climb to just around the $3,000,000 level.

The Clubhouse at Ballantyne features fine cuisine, a number of grills, a fabulous veranda which one can dine out at, together with a private dining room and a few lounges.

A Family Activities Center comes with half a dozen tennis courts, a competition size lap pool, a multipurpose pool area, and a couple of children’s pools; one is loaded up with a water slide as well as interactive jets and the other is a tot pool.

Various extras include things like a cutting edge work out center (offered to you 24 / 7), durability and workout classes, an adolescent room, a movie theater along with a children’s play area.

During the summer time, you can find camps designed for youngsters 5-10 years of age; mini camps intended for 3-5 year olds and counselor in training courses for teenagers.

Ballantyne Country Club opened in 1996 and is a Rees Jones design. The course is ideal for all skill sets and starts with gold tees at 7034 yards and works its way down to the family tees at 2380 yards.

The practice area has a driving range with over 20 hitting stations, a couple of practice putting greens along with a short game area with two sand bunkers. The club has a his and her locker room with lockers, showers, and heavy steam rooms; shoe shine service and golf bag storage areas are also offered on site.

For the staff, you’ll have a Head Golf Professional, Director of Instruction and two golf experts to assist you by any means conceivable. There is also a JR. golfing program.

Next, we’ll have a look at Charlotte homes for sale in Kensington at Ballantyne.

These are also fabulous! The real estate purchase prices in Kensington at Ballantyne range from $450,000 to $700,000; with house sizes around 3500 to 4500 heated square feet.

Kensington properties are quietly hidden on large beautiful lots topped off with fully developed landscaping.

Built in the middle of the ’90s the fine home builders of Kensington include: The Dowd Company, Harrington and Associates, Roger Huntley homes and just a few others.

And finally, we’ll look in to the neighborhood of Highgrove.

Crescent Community specially designed the community of Highgrove and its houses to appear and feel as if they’d already been here for many decades, when in fact, home building had really just begun in the latter part of the 1990’s-early 2000’s.

The community layout features a village green and wooded park section accompanied by the neighborhood clubhouse, swimming pool and tennis courts. Although, many of the homes have lots large enough to accommodate their own swimming pool.

The superb architectural elements are from many of Charlotte’s finest custom building firms, including: Cyras Homes, Simonini, John R. Poore, Regal Custom Builders, Dienst, Helms, and Stevens Construction.

A pleasure for the eye, the distinct styles consists of English Cottages and Tudors, French Provincial homes, French Country and regal Georgian houses.

Home prices pertaining to Highgrove are between $600,000 to about $1.2M with abundant living quarters of 3500 to 6500 heated sq ft plus 2 or 3 car garages.

Very often, homeowners inside Kensington and Highgrove have transferrable swim/social memberships with the Ballantyne Country Club-some sellers will convey these-some will not want to.

The homeowners for these neighborhoods are served by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools-by these top ranking schools of: Ballantyne and Hawk Ridge Elementary, Community House Middle and Ardrey Kell High School. There’s also a large number of private schools nearby.

What makes the Ballantyne area so popular amongst its residents, is the large amount of restaurants (chain, ethnic, upscale and sandwich), grocery stores (regular, organic and niche) and retail centers (national, regional and specialty) plus plenty of theatres nearby. It is also, within close range of Ballantyne and Morrison YMCA’s in addition to the Greenway Park system.

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