Matthews Commons is an established, tree-lined subdivision of spacious traditional homes tucked off Sam Newell Road in Matthews, NC, in Mecklenburg County's southeastern Charlotte suburbs. Most of its two-story, four-…

Deerfield Creek is one of Matthews' more upscale established neighborhoods, a custom-home community built mostly between 1998 and 2008 by John Wieland Homes and other custom builders on oversized wooded homesites off…

Sardis Plantation is one of Matthews' classic established subdivisions, built between 1987 and 1997 by William Trotter Co. just inside the Matthews town line off Sardis Road North. Its tree-canopied streets, sidewalks,…

Callonwood is one of the larger, more established communities in the Matthews area, a mix of single-family homes, estate-style properties, and a separate townhome section built out mostly between the early 2000s and…

Sardis Forest is a well-established neighborhood in northern Matthews, North Carolina, built mostly from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s by William Trotter Co. Its winding streets are lined with brick ranch and…

One of Fort Mill's newer master-planned communities, roughly 900 townhomes and single-family homes built 2015 to 2021, a mile north of the Catawba River.

Wilmore is one of Charlotte's oldest neighborhoods, platted in the early 1900s by developer F.C. Abbott's Suburban Real Estate Company on farmland once owned by two men named Wilson and Moore, whose names combined into…

Waverly is south Charlotte's answer to a downtown Charlotte streetcar suburb, except it was built from scratch starting in 2016 instead of a century ago. Developers Childress Klein and Crosland Southeast carved the…

The Village of Raintree is one of south Charlotte's oldest established golf communities, built up around Raintree Country Club since the club opened in 1971. Rather than one master-planned subdivision, it's a collection…

Uptown is Charlotte's original downtown, the square mile inside the I-277 loop that the rest of the city grew up around. Charlotte-Mecklenburg's founders laid it out in the 1760s as four wards fanning out from the…

The Palisades is a 1,600-acre master-planned golf community tucked into the southwest corner of Charlotte, built around an 18-hole, Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course and country club set on a wooded peninsula above…

The Club at Longview is one of the grandest gated communities south of Charlotte, a Waxhaw, NC enclave built around an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course and a 28,000-square-foot clubhouse. Homes here run…

Sun City Carolina Lakes is Del Webb's largest active-adult community in the Charlotte region, and by some counts its best-selling Sun City nationwide. Del Webb only puts the “Sun City” name on a community once it clears…

Runneymede is a quiet, acreage community on the east side of Davidson, North Carolina, built mostly between the mid-1990s and early 2000s off Callaway Hills Lane. Homes sit on generous 0.8 to 3-plus acre lots under a…

River Run is Davidson's golf and country club community, built around an 18-hole championship course, a resort-style pool, and the largest private tennis facility in the Lake Norman area.

River Hills is a gated golf and lake community in Lake Wylie, South Carolina, tucked into York County just across the state line from Charlotte's Steele Creek. Development began in 1974 on more than 800 wooded, rolling…

The River District is Charlotte's newest and biggest bet on what a suburb can look like, 1,400 acres of former farmland between the Catawba River and Charlotte Douglas International Airport, being built from the ground…

Providence Plantation is one of south Charlotte's older established communities, planned by developer Henry Newson starting in the mid-1970s off Providence Road near I-485. The builders drew the street plan around the…

Overlook is a lake community tucked into the far northwest corner of Charlotte, built along the shores of Mountain Island Lake, the roughly 20-mile-long Catawba River reservoir Duke Energy created by damming the river…

Mt Isle Harbor sits on a peninsula that juts out into Mountain Island Lake in the far northwest corner of Charlotte, in the 28214 zip code. Homes started going up here in the late 1990s from builders like Ryland Homes,…