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Highlands Ranch Colorado Homes for Sale - and Buying & Selling Highlands Ranch Homes
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If you are looking to relocate to a bustling suburb just south of Denver with plenty to do for the whole family - then look no further than buying Highlands Ranch new and resale homes for sale. Just 25 minutes south of Downtown Denver and the State Capital Building, Highlands Ranch real estate and new homes for sale is Denver's top growing suburban area - with the genuine feel of a small community. It's a bit confusing, but Highlands Ranch and Littleton are in the same area depending on if you're reading your tax certificate, your U.S. Post Office address or your legal description registered with Douglas County. Please refer back to our home page for more information on other Denver Metro cities.
Highlands Ranch is situated just east of the foothills of Colorado with breath taking views of the Rocky Mountains, while still having homes built with their own beautiful landscapes. A Shea Homes community, Highlands Ranch offers homes for all families stretching over 22, 000 acres of land; offering 2,000 acres of open spaces with an education system of 17 elementary schools, 4 middle schools and 4 high schools. Highlands Ranch real estate is ranked as one of the top twenty master planned communities in the country, making it not only a great place to live in the present, but a place to enjoy for a long time to come. It is a great place for move-up buyers wanting bigger and more expensive homes as well as first-time home buyers.
Some of the more popular neighborhoods and subdivisions to search for Highlands Ranch Homes For sale include: Settlers Village, Eastridge, Wildcat Reserve, Eastridge terrace, Camden - Highlands Ridge, Highlands Ranch Village Center, Tesena, Venneford Ranch, Town Center Highlands Ranch, Legacy Apartments, Mansion Pointe, Indigo Hills, Backcountry - Wild at Heart, Stonebury, Kently Hills, Lanturn Hill, Firelight, Highlands Walk, Hawks Pointe, The Hearth, Cobble Creek, Weatherstone, Southridge Crossings, Westridge Village, Westridge Meadows, Westridge Glen, Highlands Ranch golf club, Highlands Ranch Town Center, Clocktower Residences, Southridge, Southridge Vista and Northridge.
2007 Sales Statistics for Highlands Ranch Homes For Sale
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Highlands Ranch homes for sale is listed as one area on the Denver MLS search: (DHL), but DHL also encompasses areas outside of Highlands Ranch and Littleton too. The recent homes for Sales Statistics for Highlands Ranch homes for sale and SOLD show that there was an amazing +13.18% positive sales growth over 2006. Only the city of Lafayette Colorado up north by Broomfield real estate had a higher sales growth in 2007 over 2006. This is despite the high number of Highlands Ranch and Littleton foreclosure homes for sale. The median Highlands Ranch home prices fluctuated quite a bit, depending on the specific area or neighborhood in Highlands Ranch. Call me at (303) 588-4665 and I can help you go over this further; depending on the areas or price range of Highlands Ranch that you're interested in?
Highlands Ranch also has the Highlands Ranch Community Association, making each homeowner a community member and giving each home owner a stake in the community’s future. The Highlands Ranch Community Association also helps to maintain a small town feel, enforces zoning and covenants rules (call me on these!), maintaining the sidewalks and green lawn areas for mowing, watering and snow removal, offering community movies, art festivals and farmer’s markets for residents to enjoy. The association is a mandatory requirement for anyone buying or living in Highlands Ranch.
Highlands Ranch homes are also linked to the RTD Light Rail system, giving you easy, fast and reliable transportation to downtown Denver, the Denver Tech Center, and other major centers in the Metro-Denver area. Popular pick-up spots include Park Meadows Mall, and it's another reason why Highlands Ranch offers the perfect mix of community and excitement for anyone looking to relocate to a fast growing, peaceful and overall enjoyable place to spend their lives.
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Parks and Recreation
Along with 2,000 acres of greenbelts and open space, Highlands Ranch homes for sale offer 70 miles of paved trails for biking, hiking and other outdoor activities. These are coupled with parks for baseball, basket ball and soccer. Highlands Ranch offers the Northridge, Redstone and Falcon Parks - each with picnic areas athletic fields and many more amenities. Redstone Park also offers outdoor tennis courts and a skate park, one of two in the Highlands Ranch area. Also popular is the Tanks skate park with the outdoor inline hockey rink.
The Highlands Ranch Community Association offers four recreation centers for the use of HRCA members including:
Northridge: This recreation center offers both indoor and outdoor tennis courts, with lessons and leagues along with both indoor and outdoor swimming pools. Northridge also offers an indoor basketball court, which can also be used for volleyball, along with indoor racquetball courts.
Eastridge: The Eastridge recreation center offers an indoor rock climbing wall and an outdoor inline hockey rink. Also offered are both indoor and outdoor swimming pools and an indoor basketball court.
Westridge: This recreation center offers indoor and outdoor swimming pools and an indoor inline hockey rink. Also offered are outdoor tennis courts and outdoor batting cages.
Southridge: Southridge offers an indoor and outdoor swimming pool and a multipurpose athletic floor for indoor volleyball, soccer and basketball along with outdoor tennis courts.
Each recreation center is also equipped with a running track, workout and weight room and cardio machine facilities.
Golf Courses
In addition Highlands Ranch is home to two popular golf courses: the Highlands Ranch Golf Club, an 18 hole 72 par course along with The Links at Highlands Ranch an 18 hole par 3 and 4 golf course. You're only about 10 minutes away from hitting a bucket of practice balls and working on your iron shots and your short game!
Entertainment and Shopping
For all your Hollywood movie entertainment needs, Highlands Ranch is home to the AMC 24 screen movie theater. Along with the AMC 24 the HRCA also offers great outdoor movies during the summer at their outdoor amphitheater on a giant screen. Highlands Ranch homes for sale and real estate are only a few minutes away from the Park Meadows mall, home to multiple retailers including Eddie Bauer, Dillard’s, Nordstrom and many others. Park Meadows Mall is also surrounded by many major retail outfits and offers an amazing upscale shopping experience. And with access to the RTD light rail system downtown Denver is only a fast, reliable and easy trip away. Highlands Ranch itself is home to many smaller shopping centers, including the very popular Whole Foods grocery, the Tattered Cover Book Store, Home Depot, Lowes and Bed, Bath and Beyond just to name a few. The popular Highlands Ranch Town Center even offers a small pub, with live music, open roof and great food and drinks - especially for active adults and singles.
Education
Highlands Ranch homes offer a large education system run by Douglas County Public Schools, and rated as one of the finest in Colorado and nationally. Included are 17 elementary schools, four middle schools and four high schools – each with a highly respectable education system and large team sport programs with Shea Stadium used by all the local high schools for football, soccer and lacrosse games. Highlands Ranch also offers the main Highlands Ranch Library, located in the Highlands Ranch Town Center.
Community
Highlands Ranch real estate has and was built as a mecca for families, with a major focus on keeping the community fun and safe. The city offers sports leagues for both the young and old, including soccor, football, baseball and inline hockey for the young and softball and tennis for the young at heart. There might be more soccer mom's per capita in Highlands Ranch than any other city in America!
Highlands Ranch also offers an outdoor farmers markets, art festivals and outdoor movies along with a mass of other outdoor and indoor community events offered all year round.
The HRCA offers classes for all ages, from computer classes to swimming lessons to dance lessons, there is a little something for everyone.
Highlands Ranch Home Buying & Selling Information...
Do you know what’s the #1 MISTAKE people make and the #1 COMPLAINT to the Colorado Real Estate Commission when buying or selling Highlands Ranch homes for sale; especially buying Highlands Ranch and Littleton new homes for sale?
Shockingly, it’s that there was confusion on the Purchase Contract. Buyers and Sellers got burned financially because they didn’t understand or were not clear on the Contract they had just signed and agreed to! What's amazing is that only a small fraction of those complaints were filed against experienced Highlands Ranch real estate agents and Realtors. The majority of the complaints in 2007 and the majority of people who get pissed during and after the closing used inexperienced or part-time Highlands Ranch real estate agents - or NO Highlands Ranch Realtor at all (…especially buying new homes in Highlands Ranch and Littleton Colorado.)
Wouldn’t you want experienced Highlands Ranch real estate agents sticking up for YOUR legal rights when the Sellers or Buyers decides to try to harm you financially - or if there’s a problem on the mortgage loan or closing? Did I mention that I’ve personally closed nearly $100 million in real estate and mortgage loan transactions…and have always been able to negotiate or resolve every single problem we’ve encountered since 1998. I’m not saying that to brag, but instead to let you know that a professional Highlands Ranch Realtors or Denver real estate agents representing your rights and helping YOU is absolutely mandatory...especially when problems come up!
Tell me about what price range of homes you're interested in and what part of town you want to buy in? Buying and selling Highlands Ranch real estate is much more profitable when you hire me and when you send me the email form here...
Thank you,
Jeff Boyce
(303) 588-4665
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This article was written by Jeff Boyce and Andrew Fortier. Andrew is a freelance writer residing in Aurora, Colorado.
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