Hi, this is Elena Kovrigin with Nesting Dolls Realty at Realty ONE Group Pivot here in Asheville,
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South Asheville, it's probably one of the most self-sufficient parts of Asheville.
The whole town.
It's got everything that you can possibly need from the major hospital, it's probably
one of the biggest, if not the biggest, hospital in whole Western North Carolina, Mission Hospital,
to numerous doctor's offices, airport, which is more down south in Fletcher, all the stores
that you can possibly need, Target, Lowe's, all those big stores, little stores, all the
fast food restaurants, all the familiar stores, all the familiar places to go eat and shop.
Neighborhoods in all different price ranges are right here in South Asheville.
So if you're wondering, why would anybody ever want to live anywhere else but South
Asheville, or why would anybody want to leave South Asheville?
Well, South Asheville has everything except for old things Asheville.
It does not have Asheville vibe, it does not have all the great local restaurants that
Asheville is so famous for, all the character and all the Asheville local stuff kind of
ends at Biltmore Village, which is right in the beginning of South Asheville.
And after that more south, it's more of a chain kind of places, restaurants, it's kind
of more on the generic side.
I mean, anybody who's coming from a different area will feel right at home in South Asheville
because you're going to recognize all these stores, all the fast food restaurants, everything
that you will see anywhere else in the country.
You will see in South Asheville.
But as a comparison places like Wendy's, McDonald's that we have a lot everywhere in South Asheville,
will not survive in a place like West Asheville.
And I'm talking about the West Asheville alone.
Haywood Road.
But South Asheville, no problem.
So for some people it's a pro, for some people it's a con.
Do whatever you want with this information, but that's just how it is.
As you start moving south from downtown, one of the first places that you will see is Mission
Hospital.
And like I said, it's one of the biggest, if not the biggest, hospitals in the area
with numerous doctor's offices all around it and in that vicinity.
And one of the first neighborhoods that you will see is Kenilworth.
And I hesitated to include it in the South Asheville video, because Kenilworth is situated
between South Asheville and East Asheville.
We got Biltmore Avenue on one side and Tunnel Road, which is in East Asheville on the other
side.
And Kenilworth is in between, on top of the mountain with multiple entrances and ins and
outs on both sides on Biltmore Avenue, on Tunnel Road, and actual [inaudible] River
Road as well.
Very eclectic, very historic neighborhood that's been there for a while.
And it's really a combination of all kinds of houses, all kinds of styles, all kinds
of ages.
There's some new construction going on right now.
Some parts of it are very walkable with sidewalks are lining the streets, we shaded with trees,
mature trees, and homes in Kenilworth range anywhere from three hundreds, up to over a
million dollar houses that are very historic, that's been renovated.
So there's a wide variety of homes, of home styles, and ages that are available in Kenilworth.
It's not your typical cookie-cutter neighborhood.
It's far from it.
It's the opposite of it.
I think anybody can find a home that will appeal to them, the homestyle or the age of
the home.
People who live in Kenilworth and who have kids will send their kids either to Asheville
High School, which is basically across the street, across two streets off of Ashland
Avenue.
If they live on one side.
If they live on the other side towards Tunnel Road, they will send the kids to Reynolds
High School.
Grade school districts, according to news.com.
Come check it out down in the description, all the ratings.
But that's South Asheville's first neighborhood that I wanted to mention because it just,
it's beautiful, and it's eclectic, and it's got tons and tons of character, unlike the
rest of South Asheville.
As you keep moving more south on Hendersonville Road and pass Biltmore Village on one side,
and that is just basically a commercial area with a bunch of stores, bunch of little local
restaurants, very cute, very walkable, historic place.
Entrance to Biltmore Estate on the other side, and then you start seeing all these side roads
on the right that lead to the next neighborhood that I was hesitant to include because it's
technically not even a neighborhood.
It's actually a town.
Biltmore Forest is one of the most established, historic, expensive, luxury neighborhoods/towns
in Asheville.
It's not a gated community, but don't you worry.
Besides such amenities as tennis courts, golf course, pool, country club, Biltmore Forest
also has their own police.
Basically, they take their safety very seriously.
Most of the homes in Biltmore Forest are older, historic homes.
There are some new homes, there's even some new construction going on in Biltmore Forest
right now, but most of the homes are very historic homes.
One of the most expensive homes that was sold in Asheville just recently in the last 20
years, had agreed upon price tag of $7.7 million and was sold in Biltmore forest.
It was designed by renowned architect, Harrie T. Lindeberg for the late Robert Lee Ellis,
former President of Coca-Cola bottling company of Asheville and his wife, Nan.
So there you have it.
The most expensive, luxurious, very historic neighborhood/town is located in South Asheville.
And that is Biltmore Forest.
Biltmore Forest stretches along Hendersonville Road for quite a while, and kind of ends right
where Blue Ridge Parkway goes through South Asheville.
And right there where Blue Ridge Parkway goes through, we have another very nice, very beautiful
gated community.
It's probably one of my favorite dream communities in Asheville, and that is Ramble Biltmore
Forest.
It's one of the nicest, most expensive, luxury communities that has a ton of green space
for all the residents to enjoy it.
It borders Biltmore Estate property, and it borders Blue Ridge Parkway on one side and
Biltmore Park on the other side.
Beside very beautiful, luxury homes, Ramble Biltmore Forest also has several parks, living
well center with a pool, fitness room, things like that.
Staffed Gatehouse.
The community also has an extensive trail system that connects neighbors to the Rambles
Parks and amenities.
It's got paved and regular trails for residents to go on just a regular hike, on a bike ride,
and enjoy themselves.
One interesting thing about Ramble at Biltmore Forest is that even though it's located in
city limits, residents in Ramble Biltmore Forest do not pay Asheville city taxes.
They only pay Buncombe County taxes.
So that's a nice perk of living there.
And I mean, that's basically cuts your taxes in half pretty much.
So that's something to keep in mind to keep your costs down.
But so far I've been talking mostly about higher and above medium sales price communities
in South Asheville.
And there's so many other more affordable communities in South Asheville.
It's hard to name just one or two.
If you go along Sweden Creek, which goes parallel to Hendersonville Road, there's plenty of
other great, very family friendly, very established, some of them more established than others.
It just going to come down to availability, especially in this day and age when inventory
is super low.
But anybody basically who lives in South Asheville past Kenilworth will belong to TC Roberson
High School school district.
And if you want to check out more about the school district, check out the link of news.com
and the ratings for the school district.
One thing to mention about South Asheville is that the more south you keep moving, the
worse the traffic gets.
In fact, South Asheville has one of the worst traffic jams in the whole area.
I think a lot of people moving there for good school districts, for availability to all
their amenities, and proximity to all the amenities, and the roads are just busting
at the seams and cannot take all the traffic.
So traffic is bad, but if you do not have to be in the same traffic with everyone else
picking up or dropping off their kids at school at 8:00 AM or 5:00 PM, you probably going
to be fine, but just keep that in mind.
If you keep more south and get right around TC Robertson, Estes Elementary School area
right there, you will get to Biltmore Park.
That is another super duper cool community.
That is the only one in this area.
It's a mixed use community.
Actually, I made a video about it a while ago.
Check it out right here if you want just more information about it.
But it's a mixed use community.
It has, just like South Asheville, has everything.
It doesn't have a grocery store, but other than that, it has everything.
Office spaces, offices, apartments, condos, regular homes, luxury homes, movie theater,
hotel, restaurants, pizza place, coffee shop, a gym.
You know what I mean?
They have it.
So the idea behind it was to reduce traffic, to reduce the use of cars so that people could
walk, and people who live there can walk anywhere.
And depending on where people live and if they have kids or not, they can actually walk
their kids to Estes Elementary School from Biltmore Park.
It's right there.
It's right around the corner.
So it's super convenient, has everything you need.
It also has this mini subdivisions within Biltmore Park.
So some areas will have homes that look the same.
They have very similar, have similar sizes, similar styles, similar price ranges.
They might have some smaller yards, but it's one little nook.
Another area might have homes that different style, bigger yards, and so on.
You get the idea.
And one of the typical homes that you see in Biltmore Park is something like this.
It is super convenient, again, to all the stores.
You can walk straight to a little town and get to any store, go get some lunch, go to
the gym at YMCA, go swim in the pool, go to the movie theater.
By the way, this is the biggest movie theater in Asheville.
So that's pretty cool.
Even we go there sometimes who don't live there, and we go and maybe have a pizza, go
to the movie theater, go get some ice cream afterwards.
So very convenient and right there at the I26 exit.
So you can hop on and off of I26, if you're lucky, if the traffic is not at standstill.
But a good thing about it is that you have an alternative, Hendersonville Road to get
back, let's say, to Asheville, to downtown Asheville, or go more south and go to the
airport, for example.
And last but not least, a community that I wanted to mention in the South Asheville video
is Ashley Woods.
Although technically Ashley Woods is located in Arden, which is a town more South of Asheville.
But I wanted to include this because it's a pretty neat community.
It's located on the other side of Highway I26 from Biltmore Park.
Homes in the Ashland Woods average anywhere from 300s to 800s.
And it's a very established community, family friendly.
In the grade school district, according to news.com, check it out down there.
I cannot stress that enough.
The only thing that is hard about Ashley Woods, just like about anything in South Asheville,
pretty much is traffic.
It's located right off this two lane road that can get backed up pretty bad because
there's a lot of people coming in from both directions.
So watch for traffic.
If you want to check it out, watch your GPS, watch for traffic, check it out before going,
before leaving your house, leaving your hotel.
And one of the typical Ashley Woods homes would look like this.
And that's actually an active listing that's for sale right now.
Ashley Woods, again, just pretty much just like anything else in Asheville is located
within just about 10 minutes to Bend Creek, to the entrance of Blue Ridge Parkway, to
all the trails, and to all the shopping, and restaurants, and things like that.
There's so many more great big and little communities in South Asheville that I'd be
here all day talking about them.
But I wanted to overview some of their big ones, I guess, or the ones that are popular,
to give you an idea of what it's like to live in South Asheville and what's available there.
If you have any questions about South Asheville, North Asheville, West, East, anything around
this area, feel free to reach back to me.
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