About Birdsong Top

This beautiful, private property is within easy driving distance of Asheville. There are expansive, multi-layered views that include Craggy Garden and the Blue Ridge Parkway to the south and southeast and views north to Buckner's Gap. Hill-top breezes and the cool forest canopy of large timber-sized pines and oaks should ensure comfortable summers with minimal energy use. 

What Birdsong Top becomes will depend or who discovers it first. It is currently MLS-listed as a single four plus acre property for $300,000. It would make a wonderful private home place with spectacular views and southern exposure. Or, we are willing to sell to a builder who will build NC Healthy Built homes on up to four house sites which we have had professionally sited for maximum privacy and the best views. Two home sites are view sites - after selective thinning of trees and understory - and two are deeply wooded. Home sites are relatively level for easy building. Once the site plan is complete we will offer individual home sites for sale.

This is a place to build a home that blends in with the environment. A pole house such as a Kokoro Country Home or as seen at http://www.polehouses.com/index.cfm? would blend beautifully into the forest here. Environmental covenants will protect the cool forest quality of the land while allowing selective clearing to reveal the views. Covenants will also protect the local environment and health of the residents. Septic fields have been professionally sited to protect the largest trees.

Birdsong Top is three miles from the charming college town of Mars Hill, seventeen miles north of Asheville, and fifteen miles south of Wolf Laurel Ski Resort. It is in Madison County, which means lower taxes, but the homes will have Weaverville, Buncombe County addresses since the drive exits the road in Buncombe County. We live just below this land and can make it to Asheville in twenty-three conservative-driving minutes. (This would be about twelve real-estate agent minutes.)

We bought this land because it is inches behind our home and farm and we wanted to prevent the inevitable logging and potentially unworkable development that would follow. We wish we could afford to just keep it all, but since we can't, we are selecting the road and home sites ourselves and adding covenants to preserve privacy and other special qualities of the land. This should make for quality living for new and old residents.