Residential Real Estate

Ryan Homes has started construction on Fairways, the 290-home redevelopment of the former public golf course by local development firm Godsey Properties.

The site is part of the Tuckahoe Creek Service District, and is located in a “designated major growth area.”

McShay Communities has started going vertical on Kings Park, a 20-lot subdivision a couple miles east of Chesterfield County Airport. The 30-year-old firm is expanding from Alexandria.

A holdout among the sprawl between Short Pump and Wyndham, the 9-acre site along Pouncey Tract Road has been under the same ownership since 1980, when it was last purchased for $22,000.

HBAR’s latest annual rankings show the 10 busiest firms in the region last year built 10 more homes than the previous year but saw their combined sales volume increase by $100 million.

“Quite candidly, we’re at the end of the useful life of that building,” said CEO Chris Henderson of Pinnacle Living, which is planning an overhaul of the retirement community in Northside.

The 1960s-era modern-design house was built by Anne and Mark Sternheimer. The unnamed buyers plan to renovate and document the process on Instagram.

Thacker’s View, which is planned for 260 homes on a 139-acre site formerly occupied by events venue Celebrations at the Reservoir, got the green light from the county last night.

Main Street Homes secured approval for 41 townhomes across Church Road from Shire Walk, where the firm is currently building 81 townhomes at the crossroads of Church, John Rolfe and Pump Road.

The 36-acre listing near Magnolia Green in Chesterfield was the priciest residential real estate transaction in January, beating out a century-old house in Richmond that likewise came in above the $3 million mark.