The Advantages of Large Wooded Homesites

Large wooded homesites are a scarce commodity these days, particularly in new neighborhoods offering amenities like pools, clubhouses, fitness centers and playgrounds. In fact, the median lot size nationwide for a new single-family home has shrunk to less than one-fifth of an acre.

Riverchase Estates is the rare exception. Carved from a forest, Riverchase Estates offers homesites averaging more than an acre – about the size of a football field – and shaded with ample native hardwoods and pines.

Such generous homesites create many opportunities for designing a truly memorable and livable home.

Privacy without walls and blinds

We all enjoy having good neighbors, but we also value privacy and separation. Expansive wooded homesites at Riverchase Estates provide ample natural screening from nearby homes.

Free from the need for window blinds and dense hedges to ensure privacy, you’ll love watching wildlife from your kitchen window and basking in the floral beauty of your backyard garden.

The perfect home is even better with the proper setting

A custom-built home can be a jewel, and that jewel will truly sparkle with the ideal setting. Imagine the landscaping possibilities available with a full acre or more at Riverchase Estates.

The orientation of your home on that site may allow you to capture just the right vista or lighting for a bedroom, ensure good shade for your patio and take advantage of unique slopes.

Outdoor amenities will shine

With abundant land around your Riverchase Estates home, you will have a clean canvas for creating the ideal outside living spaces for yourself and your family.

Many custom homebuyers at Riverchase Estates opt for large patios, outdoor kitchens and entertainment areas, and children’s play areas in their home plans. Your builder can help you add the right outdoor amenities to maximize your enjoyment and investment.

Pools are a popular back yard addition in Upstate South Carolina. Our mild spring and fall mean that pools can help you exercise, entertain and play for much of the year. Add a pool heater to extend your pool’s “season” even longer.

While the space needed for the pool itself is relatively small, you will appreciate having extra room on your Riverchase Estates homesite to include a generous patio area for poolside playing and entertaining, grassy areas for wet kids and pets to romp, and pleasing gardens to frame the pool.

Your personal Garden of Eden starts here

Gardeners will love having so much space for their long-imagined, perfect floral displays and bountiful harvests. Imagine having a quarter-acre fruit-and-vegetable garden for three seasons of healthy eating, and still have so much property left over for other uses.

Gardeners needing advice and inspiration will also appreciate having one of the Southeast’s most robust gardening resources: the South Carolina Botanical Garden at Clemson University.

A daylong outing to the 295-acre garden and educational facility will fill your head and green thumbs to bursting with ideas for your home at Riverchase Estates.

The Botanical Garden is a three-hour drive from Riverchase Estates, in the southwest corner of the state. The garden's trails and outdoor exhibits are free and currently open 7 am-sunset daily. Programming has been curtailed during the pandemic.

The botanical garden's director, naturalist Patrick McMillan, produces one of our favorite PBS shows, “Expeditions with Patrick McMillan.” McMillan’s deep knowledge of SC flora and fauna is inspiring.

Riverchase Estates celebrates the rich natural diversity of our unique place along the Catawba River by dedicating 500 acres to a nature preserve. Thanks to the efforts of many kindred spirits, bald eagles once again nest and hunt along the Catawba River at Riverchase Estates. Your yard can become a personal expression of that same devotion to natural beauty and wildlife.

An investment that pays dividends now

Homes and homesites are major investments. The payoff of a large homesite at Riverchase Estates begins the day you purchase your homesite. The day eventually will come for most Riverchase Estates residents when they will need to sell that home to others.

While no one can guarantee the future, including the future value of your home, we do know that shaded homesites as large as those at Riverchase Estates are rare now and becoming scarcer by the day.

Author, humorist and sage Mark Twain offered this advice to investors more than a century ago. His message rings true now more than ever: “Buy land. They’re not making it anymore.”