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Hendersonville Magazine

Find Your Dream Home

From stately colonials and comfortable ranches to contemporary and custom designs to log cabins and more, Henderson County offers anyone looking for their dream home a variety of choices. Homes can be found in downtown neighborhoods, wooded natural settings, rural areas and perched high on mountainsides with breathtaking views. Some choice residential communities are designed to permanently preserve the natural beauty of the land and the greenness of the area.

Many communities in the area have active homeowners associations that organize social, recreational and educational activities for residents. For communities specifically designed for retirement or adults at least 55 or older, see the 
Your Retirement Your Way article.

Highland Lake Village
is located on 200 acres, two miles from downtown Flat Rock. Four distinct neighborhoods offer primary or secondary homes, vacation rental homes and immediate occupancy resale homes with on-site real estate and property management. Recognized as one of the Top Ten Most Walkable Communities in America, and recipient of the National Association of Homebuilders “Best in American Living” Award, there are sidewalks, miles of walking trails, open green spaces and proximity to The Park at Flat Rock.

For those who prefer their green spaces in the form of a golf course or enjoy the country club lifestyle, Henderson County offers premier golfing communities. 

Champion Hills is a top-ranked, year-round golf club located just 5 miles from downtown Hendersonville. Champion Hills boasts of life’s perfect balance and breathtaking views of the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains for those looking for a seasonal mountain retreat or a full-time residence. The community offers a Fazio championship golf course, lighted Har-Tru tennis courts, a fitness center, a heated pool, a hydro spa, exceptional dining, miles of trails and more.

Cummings Cove is a gated golf community just eight miles west of downtown. Located on more than 650 acres, Cummings Cove offers a diverse selection of homes, villas and cottages. The Mountain Top section has homesites with see-forever mountain views. The Valley View golf villas afford scenic golf vistas with a wooded mountain backdrop. The sports complex includes a fitness center with a pool, hot tub spa and three joint-friendly tennis courts in addition to the clubhouse with a restaurant and golf shop.

Kenmure is a gated golf community located just four miles from downtown in Flat Rock. A historic antebellum mansion serves as a grand clubhouse with a restaurant. Residents also enjoy indoor and outdoor heated pools, hard and soft-surface tennis courts and a fitness center. The community offers homesites for custom single-family homes, freestanding villas and condominiums and new mountain craftsman cottages.

Great recreational amenities are not exclusive to golf communities. 

Vista at Blacksmith Run, located just five miles east of I-26 on Chimney Rock Road, has striking long-range views while situated on rolling hills, making walking easy and gardening a pleasure. This gated community offers a clubhouse, pool, fitness room and fishing pier. 

Vista at Bill's Mountain, located in nearby Lake Lure, has similar amenities and great views. Choose a homesite or one of the low-maintenance craftsman-style homes.

This sampling of communities shows that Hendersonville and surrounding Henderson 
offer numerous choices in housing and neighborhoods. To learn more, visit the Hendersonville Board of Realtors® website at HBOR-NC.com and enlist the services of one of Henderson County’s many real estate agents. Both national and local agencies are here, fully licensed with both buyer brokers and selling brokers.

Henderson County's popular home market offers a range of housing options. 
Henderson County is a popular housing market that offers a variety of options ranging from tiny homes and condominiums to older houses in established, historic neighborhoods and new custom-built homes.

According to the Hendersonville Board of Realtors, the median sales price of homes in Henderson County was $440,000, trending up 14.6% from 2022. For Hendersonville, the median list price was $425,000, up 14.9% from 2022. This data is based upon a rolling 12 months of data, ending March 2023.

For March 2023, home inventory in Henderson County was up 4.5% annually. The months’ supply was 1.7 months, referring to the number of months it would take for the current inventory of homes on the market to sell. This supply amount is up 30.77% annually, compared to a rate of 1.3 months’ supply in March of 2022.

In addition to modern subdivisions and developments, the City of Hendersonville has historic residential districts like Cold Spring Park, Druid HIlls, Hyman Heights, Lenox Park and the West Side. Many were some of the first planned neighborhoods in the region with beginnings that date back to the start of the 20th century, according to the Hendersonville Historic Preservation Commission. Learn more at HendersonvilleHPC.org.

In Henderson County outside of Hendersonville, the Village of Flat Rock and the Towns of Fletcher, Laurel Park and Mills River also each have a unique sense of place and way of life with different residential options. Learn more about each of these communities in the Discover Henderson County section. 

Henderson County shares borders with Buncombe, Polk, Rutherford and Transylvania Counties, too, where even more home choices abound, many of which are within a reasonable commute time to Hendersonville.

Additionally, The Real Estate Book of Asheville/Hendersonville is a local resource for finding real estate agents and properties in Henderson County and the surrounding areas.

Resources for Turning on Your Home
Electricity
Duke Energy
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Dominion Energy
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Water/Sewer
Hendersonville
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