Cincy Home August 2018

Home Patio homes are no longer a senior-only trend.

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Not Just for Seniors

HOMEOWNERS OF ALL AGES ARE MOVING INTO THE PATIO HOME MARKET

By Amy Thornley

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n the local upscale communities of Carriage Hill and Elliot Farm, patio home communities are filling fast.

A patio home, from the outside, is not all that different from a traditional, single-family home. The lot itself is typically smaller and deeper, with the home taking up a larger percentage of available space. But designers and developers make this smaller footprint into a little plot of luxury.

The single-floor models available at both Carriage Hill and Elliott Farm are about 2,200 square feet. Updated designs create homes that are bright and airy, with open concept kitchens that flow into family rooms, spacious bathrooms with large showers, and covered porches and patios. There are no shared walls, and homeowners own their land, making these updated patio home communities more like traditional single-family communities with extra amenities.

The most beneficial amenity of a patio home is a maintenance-free lifestyle.

Patio communities have an additional

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homeowner’s association fee that covers all snow removal, lawn mowing and basic landscaping.

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Cincy Home walking trails meander throughout the entire community for residents to enjoy.

Carriage Hill boasts a charming fishing pond and holds annual fishing competitions. Elliot Farm provides space at the community’s center for gardens so that residents can fully enjoy a farm-to-table lifestyle.

The emphasis here is on lifestyle. These are not the senior living communities of the past, though age-restricted communities are still offered by Drees and others.

The patio home subdivisions of today are a part of larger, diverse communities catering to all ages.

“The unique thing that we’ve experienced here at Carriage Hill is the number of grandparents relocating to the communities their grandchildren live in,” says Randy Terry, developer at Carriage Hill.

“And vice versa, we have the same thing happening with families with children following their parents. It allows them to be close to their parents and provide some care for them.”

Developers today are creating modern versions of the traditional village, a place where generations may still care for one

another while maintaining comfortable independent living spaces.

“We have quite a large number of at

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least two generations, and we have several circumstances of three generations,” says Terry.

The numbers prove that these sharedgeneration communities are in high demand. In an already strong housing market, patio homes are outselling traditional single-family homes in these mixed community developments. “If I had a small community with just patio homes, they’d sell like crazy,” says Shelly Kerchner, market manager for Drees.

This is thought to be a testament to the buying power of empty nesters. “The empty-nester buyers, many are cash buyers,” says Terry. “They’re not a buyer that has to make a decision. They’re also not as affected by interest rate upticks and these types of things.”

The local housing market is responding: Carriage Hill will be rolling out two more phases of patio homes in the next two years, and Elliot Farm is weighing the introduction of additional patio homes to its development plan. n

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