Residential Real Estate

UrbanCore Construction is looking to build the townhomes on what’s now parking lots for Great Hope Baptist Church along Venable Street.

The half-acre site just west of Cowardin Avenue is one of five sites that the city declared surplus and made available for development of low-income housing through the Maggie Walker Community Land Trust.

The project from local developer Dorado Capital would fill 30 acres on the north side of Nine Mile Road behind a new Henrico County fire station that’s under construction.

The month also saw a tie for the third-priciest sale and an out-of-town purchase of an 18th-century house on 300 acres in Goochland.

The year saw some of the priciest home listings and sales in Richmond in years, but it was a pair of estates with sizable acreage in the counties that topped this year’s list.

Housing nonprofit Project:Homes is behind the $20 million project, which will rise five stories and replace a century-old former coal storage facility on the site.

Previously called John Rolfe Mews, the renamed Shire Walk development will fill out a tract that’s remained empty since Henrico realigned the parkway’s intersections with Pump and Church roads.

A 3-acre property on Cherokee Road sold for $3.15 million, while a 6,100-square-foot house on a bluff near Byrd Park sold for $3 million.

The 178-acre site is adjacent to the Tuckmar Farm subdivision and north of the so-called Upper Magnolia Green area in western Chesterfield.