Heritage Eagle Bend, on the Arthur Hills golf course off E-470 at Gartrell Road, is celebrating its 10th anniversary…a retirement community that may be getting younger now rather than older. Six months ago the community changed its minimum age from 50 to 45 years (spouses can be younger), and already has six new owners that have joined within that more youthful niche.
General Manager Jeff Powles joins agents Barb Nelson of Cherry Creek Properties and Gwen Arnold of Re/Max Masters at Heritage Eagle Bend’s clubhouse.

Sunday, May 2, you can celebrate with residents at Heritage Eagle Bend’s Open House, featuring 28 homes on the re-sale market (the last new homes sold out two years ago). The tour is free; there are drawings for dinner and golf giveaways. Visit five homes and you’ll qualify for free appetizers and two-fers at the clubhouse’s Eagles Nest bar, a chance to kick back and talk with residents about how they like their lifestyle.

Getting Eagle Bend residents to talk is no difficult task, says Realtor Gwen Arnold of Re/Max Masters, who along with Barb Nelson of Cherry Creek Properties arranged the event. “A lot of people are relocating to be near grandkids,” Arnold adds. “They often don’t have friends in the area, and the residents make it easier.”
Jeff Powles, General Manager with Hammersmith Management, says residents have formed 30 clubs from out of their 35,000-square-foot clubhouse overlooking the 10th fairway, ranging from tennis, to guns, to fishing, to bocce ball, and of course, golf. (Just $2,100 buys an annual pass onto the course…but over half of residents don’t play).
Golfer or not, organizers say, everybody tends toward the gregarious…particularly the ‘Angels.’ “They’re a combination Welcome Wagon and Salvation Army,” Powles notes…greeting new arrivals, but also looking after anybody having troubles. Meanwhile, agents add, sellers of homes are having fewer trouble finding buyers this year, including in the higher ranges. Set to close this month, says Arnold, is a La Costa plan (everything in Eagle Bend is ranch-style) with walk-out on open space that had been listed at $472,000; another at $419,900 went under contract this week. Most tour homes are single-family…including a custom that had been built by Genesee, on the market now at $559,900, the most expensive.
Broadening the market further is that widened age range. Under Fair Housing rules, Powles notes, 80% of the community is restricted to 55 and older; but the new guidelines drop the limit for the remaining 20% a full decade below that. In making that decision, he adds, residents saw a trend toward younger purchasers shown by some Del Webb communities in Arizona. Open house runs 11-3 today; take E-470 to Gartrell, then south 0.6 mile to Heritage Parkway, and right to the gate. Check in at the Clubhouse’s Humboldt Room for registration/map.

PRICE: From $180s, single-family $3s to $559,000 (custom home)
WHEN: Sunday, 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
PHONE: 303-693-7788 WEB: HeritageEagleBend.com

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