The highest-priced single-family home sale from May 22 to 28 was sold by Ben Bowen Properties

By Scott Baughman, staff writer
Published: May 31, 2012
Time posted: 4:43 pm
Tags: Commission Accomplished

HIGHEST

404 Eagle Bend Drive, Waxhaw

Listing agent: Ben Bowen, Ben Bowen Properties

Selling agent: Callie Kelly, Cottingham Chalk Hayes

Sold price: $1.78 million

Square feet: 9,209

Ben Bowen doesn’t understand why, but for the house at 404 Eagle Bend Drive more inspectors came around than for other houses he’s listed.

“We had about five home inspections,” said Bowen, of Ben Bowen Properties. “One inspector came only to check on the roof, and then another for a different aspect of the house, and so on.”

Also slightly unusual, at least for Bowen: The home was under contract for 60 days before closing, longer than his normal 45 days.

The house, which Bowen said was built in 2009, sold last week for more than $1 million. In the Longview Country Club neighborhood, which is gated, the home comes with six bedrooms and seven and a half bathrooms and sits on a 0.57-acre tract.

Bowen said the home was listed with him for about six months and he had only about 10 showings before it sold.

“At this level, you don’t get a lot of showings, so you have to make sure you spend as much time with each potential buyer as you can,” he said. “And while I love golf, selling this home is really more about selling the lifestyle that comes with it living in Longview.”

Bowen said the club features tennis courts and a Jack Nicklaus-designed course.

Bowen, who said he’s been selling golf course homes since 1996, said he has to spend a lot of time educating sellers these days on pricing their homes properly.

“People’s homes – even luxury homes like this one – are not worth what they were five years ago,” he said. “They have to understand that before they can sell it.”

Selling agent Callie Kelly, of Cottingham Chalk Hayes, said there appears to be an uptick in luxury home sales this year compared with last year.

“But I have no idea why,” she said.

Bowen said the home’s selling price was in the average price range for homes he lists, adding that he has 12 homes listed, including a 15,000-square-foot mansion that’s by Lake Wylie and comes with 11 acres. That home is listing for about $7.5 million.

Please feel free to contact me by email at bbowen@benbowenproperties.com or on my mobile phone at 704-572-6070 to find out how we can help you in the purchase or sell of your luxury home.

Cheers!

Ben Bowen