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I'm not a big fan of Pulte, but that is an excellent area of Meck assigned to AK HS... If I remember correctly that was actually a Centex neighborhood (taken over by Pulte in their merger).
As far as new goes, I think the old Ballanmoor community may be starting back up right down the road and there's several other communities in the immediate area that are building.
You can also look down in Union County if you could stomach a bit longer commute (you didn't say where you were working) because Ardrey Chase is literally on the county border.
I live in Ardrey Chase. I bought prior to the Centex/Pulte merger and been extremely happy with the home. Over the last year Pulte has phased-out the Centex floorplans in place of their own, though very similar plans based on the new models I've visited.
The neighborhood is probably 70% built-out with at least 10 new homes under contract. There are a lot of children and we are very diverse. I've lived in the Ballantyne/Blakeney area over 12 years and we've been zoned for three different elementary schools. We didn't want to leave the area since we have easy access to almost everything we need, including excellent public schools: Elon Park Elementary, Community House Middle and Ardrey Kell High (we are close enough to hear the band playing and crowd cheering during Friday night Fall footballs games when out walking in the neighborhood - yet far enough away to avoid all the traffic and overflow parking along Wade Ardrey Rd. The new Pulte neighborhood, Ballanmoor, is directly across the street from the high school and Ardrey Kell Rd., which can be extremely busy).
Ardrey Chase is somewhat protected from surrounding growth - county land across the street and a protected natural area on the back, along with a small creek and trees separating us from the Ardrey Crest neighborhood.
You have access to sidewalks that will allow long walks and we are only a couple minutes from a greenway. The pool is open Memorial Day thru Labor Day and we've had an HOA paid pool attendent the last two summers. Currently, HOA fees are $275 per quarter.
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The area around here is really good and easy access to everything from groceries, electronics, UPS etc. We have 3 harries teeter within 2 miles raduis and couple of targets at rea road/ardrey kell and the other one in blakeney.
We looked at houses in ardrey chase and the price of the houses were a deal breaker for us. The options that we wanted got us to 380K with their prestwick plan and it was back on 2009. I think those days of 400k houses are over now. They still have a few houses left to sell and the last I heard was they were hitting walls selling the remaining houses because of no negotiations policy that they have opted. I was also very skeptic of buying from a seller who went bankrupt and got acquired.
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