Where a Homesite in a Lake Town Doesn't Cost a Fortune
For a lot of folks, a home in a lake-and-golf community always sounded like something other people did, the kind with a boat they name and a second address. This lot in Cherokee Village is the version regular families can actually build on.
Picture the house you put up here, then the short drive to a community lake to wet a line before supper, or nine holes when the afternoon opens up. City water and power are already at the road, so you are wiring a home, not hauling a generator to it. Retiree ready to build, a family after a home base near the water, a weekend golfer, or somebody plain tired of resort-town price tags? There is room here for you.
Cherokee Village sits up in the Ozark hills of northern Arkansas, a town somebody actually sat down and planned. It was one of the first recreation communities of its kind in the country, laid out in 1955 by developer John Cooper, who went on to build Bella Vista and Hot Springs Village too.
The trade worth knowing up front: this is a build-a-home lot in a planned community, so covenants and a small yearly assessment on the tax bill come with the ground. That is what keeps Cherokee Village a true neighborhood of homes instead of a patchwork, and it is a fair deal for it.
Somebody dreamed this town up so a family wouldn't have to be rich to live near the water, and that dream still has a lot with room in it.