Tucked away in the city of Canton, a new golf course community is coming alive. Laurel Canyon, once completed, will be an 18 hole, Rocky Roquemore designed golf course surrounded by two distinct type of neighborhoods. The two neighborhoods are called Longleaf and Seasons. Longleaf is a neighborhood designed for families looking for an active lifestyle. Seasons is a gated community designed with the over 55 crowd in mind, still looking for an active lifestyle.

The golf course will be called Fairways of Canton and will be a daily fee course open to all Canton residents. Among the other activities and amenities you’ll find The Club at Seasons. This 28,000 square foot clubhouse will have a theatre & performaings arts center, a gourmet teaching kitchen, and arts and crafts room with two kilns, billards and card rooms, a full fitness center with a lap pool, and a full time social director. Outdoors, you’ll find walking trails, a horticultural center with community gardens, an amphitheatre by the lake, a pool and 8 clay tennis courts.

Prices within Laurel Canyon will be from the high $100,000’s to over a a million. I’ll post more information about the site plan, and home layouts and designs real soon. In the meantime, if you would like to ask questions, get more information or go look around this new Cherokee County golf course community, please use the contact form to find many ways to reach me.

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Heron Bay Golf and Country Club announces the opening of Meadow Glen, a neighborhood of 95 homes within the master planned community in Locust Grove. Built by DR Horton Homes, one of America’s top home builders, the quaint community of Meadow Glen offers homes priced from the low to high $200,000s.

This is the fourth neighborhood built by DR Horton Homes in Heron Bay. Seven of the builder’s
most popular floor plans will be available in Meadow Glen. These spacious floor plans include design elements sought after by today’s homebuyers, including media rooms, keeping rooms, sitting rooms, master suites with large walk-in closets and spacious kitchens with center islands and breakfast areas. The homes range in size from three to five bedrooms and feature a vast array of quality finishes.

Residents of Meadow Glen will enjoy the many amenities of Heron Bay Golf & Country Club including the Lakefront Park, three-pool Aquatic Center with kid friendly water features such as waterslides and water mushrooms and a heated Junior Olympic pool. The community boasts neighborhood and children’s parks, walking trails, a lighted tennis center and multi-purpose play field, as well as The Lodge with a fitness center. Residents may also choose to join Canongate for play on the beautiful 7,300 yard, par-72 golf course, or take advantage of fishing and non-motorized boating on Henry County’s 1,100-acre Cole Reservoir, which is adjacent to Heron Bay.

If you would like more information about Meadow Glen, Heron Bay Golf & Country Club or information on other Atlanta golf course real estate, please call me anytime. Or you can use the contact page for many ways to reach me.

Knox Bardeen
(678) 471-7612

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Mortgage rates have fallen three straight weeks and five of the last six weeks. The benchmark 30 year fixed rate sits at 6.57%. This recent trend is seeing a rise in mortgage applications, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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As you may know, there are a number of neighborhoods surrounding the Towne Lake Hills golf course. Here are some sales statistics for the last 6 months (1/10/2006 - 7/10/2006) regarding the Towne Lake Hills North neighborhood in Woodstock:

• In the past 6 months 5 homes have sold in Towne Lake Hills North
• The highest sales price was $569,900
• The lowest sales price was $363,000
• The average sales price was $484,580
• The average number of days on the market was 69
• And the percentage of sales price to original listing price was 99.61%

If you would like more information about Towne Lake Hills North or information on Towne Lake golf communities, please call me anytime. Or you can use the contact page for many ways to reach me.

Knox Bardeen
(678) 471-7612

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Here are some sales statistics for the last 6 months (1/10/2006 - 7/10/2006) regarding the Atlanta Country Club in Marietta:

• In the past 6 months 9 homes have sold in the Atlanta Country Club
• The highest sales price was $1,095,000
• The lowest sales price was $425,000
• The average sales price was $738,333
• The average number of days on the market was 75
• And the percentage of sales price to original listing price was 94.28%

If you would like more information on the Atlanta Country Club or information on golf course real estate, please call me anytime. Or you can use the contact page for many ways to reach me.

Knox Bardeen
(678) 471-7612

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There are many choices to bear in mind when choosing the location of your next golf course home. After you’ve chosen the perfect golf course and found the right style of home for you, the next choice is where on the golf course you want to be.

Given this choice, you’ll find many different answers from lots of people. Most of the differences are because of personal taste. Some people want to be near a green. Some people have to be on the green with water view (probably the answer I hear the most). Then you also have golf homes on the tee boxes and along both sides of the fairway. Today I want to talk about golf course real estate along the fairway.

If you don’t want, or can’t find, a home on the green or tee box, you’ll find wonderful options along the fairways of par 4 holes and par 5 holes. While your view of the course still may be the most important factor in choosing your house along the fairway, you may want to think about these things as well:

• Most golfers are right handed. Why does that matter? Slice!!! A very common errant golf shot is the slice and many a golf course (or car) window has been shattered by a slicing golf ball off the tee. That being said, homes on the left side of the fairway are less likely to be hit by slicing balls than homes on the right hand side.
• When you’ve found a hole that you want to live on, watch a few foursomes come by. Take a look at where a majority of the tee shots land in the fairway. If your home is situated at the point where balls are landing you’ll have a very enjoyable spot to watch players 2nd shots approaching the green. You will also be far enough from the tee box to escape most errant hooks and slices.
• Take into account water hazards and sand traps in the fairway. If they are towards the outside, lining the fairway, they can protect your home from balls quickly rolling towards your home. In addition, if you enjoy other golfers pain and torment, watching a player attempt to get out of a trap could be an enjoyable event. Beware of loud four letter words during these times, however.

If you have any questions about golf real estate in Atlanta or golf homes in general, please call me anytime. Or you can use the contact page for many ways to reach me.

Knox Bardeen
(678) 471-7612

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Here are some basic sales figures for the last 12 months (6/27/2005 - 6/27/2006) regarding the St. Ives Country Club in Duluth:

• In the past 12 months 22 homes have sold in St. Ives
• The highest sales price was $1,085,000
• The lowest sales price was $534,000
• The average sales price was $767,017
• The average number of days on the market was 68
• And the percentage of sales price to original listing price was 95.99%

If you would like more information on St. Ives Country Club or information on any Atlanta golf course home, please call me anytime. Or you can use the contact page for many ways to reach me.

Knox Bardeen
(678) 471-7612

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Here are some basic sales figures for the last 12 months (6/27/2005 - 6/27/2006) regarding the Crooked Creek Golf Club in Alpharetta:

• In the past 12 months 42 homes have sold in the Crooked Creek
• The highest sales price was $862,500
• The lowest sales price was $422,750
• The average sales price was $577,146
• The average number of days on the market was 68
• And the percentage of sales price to original listing price was 97.80%

If you would like more information on the Crooked Creek Golf Club or information on any other Atlanta golf home, please call me anytime. Or you can use the contact page for many ways to reach me.

Knox Bardeen
(678) 471-7612

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Here are some basic sales figures for the last 12 months (6/26/2005 - 6/26/2006) regarding the Rivermont Golf & Country Club subdivision in Alpharetta:

• In the past 12 months 15 homes have sold in Rivermont
• The highest sales price was $349,500
• The lowest sales price was $217,000
• The average sales price was $272,926
• The average number of days on the market was 51
• And the percentage of sales price to original listing price was 96.17%

If you would like more information on the Rivermont subdivision or information on Atlanta golf course real estate, please call me anytime. Or you can use the contact page for many ways to reach me.

Knox Bardeen
(678) 471-7612

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A new 11 home community is being built in the Pinetree Country Club called Wedgewood at Pinetree Country Club. The 11 new homes will be built directly off Shiloh Trail East, just before the road intersects with Shiloh Trail West. The lots have been marked, but construction has not yet begun on any of the homes. Home prices will be in the $500’s.

For more information on this new Atlanta golf home community, please call me anytime. Or you can use the contact page for many ways to reach me.

Knox Bardeen
(678) 471-7612

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