Christenbury Village

Christenbury was recorded in 2006 as one community with four villages, and that structure is the first thing to understand about buying here. Christenbury Hall carries the estate lots, a third of an acre to an acre, and the largest homes. Christenbury Wood is the single family core on roughly quarter acre lots. Christenbury Mews sits on smaller lots at the northeast corner, and Christenbury Walk is the townhome village, on lots under a tenth of an acre. All four pay into one master association and share the Manor House, the pool, the fitness center, the lit tennis court, the basketball court and the trails, so a townhome owner and an estate owner use the same amenity base. The trade off is that the community lives at the edge of Concord’s retail corridor. Lowes Foods, Christenbury Corners and Concord Mills are all within a few minutes, which is convenient, and it also means the roads around the entrance carry shopping traffic rather than neighborhood traffic.

The word townhome describes what the Walk homes look like, not how they are owned, and the difference matters to a lender. The Christenbury townhomes are recorded as fee simple lots inside the planned community, with the land included, rather than as condominium units. The master association paints the exteriors, replaces roofs and gutters, maintains the landscaping and carries the casualty insurance on the townhome buildings, and it bills a separate monthly townhome assessment for that work on top of the master dues. A buyer comparing a Walk townhome against a condominium elsewhere in Concord should have their lender read the recorded declaration, because the two are underwritten differently. Buyers weighing the wider area usually also look at Concord as a whole for its downtown, and at Huntersville across the county line for Lake Norman access, and those treating this as a move-up purchase should compare within a single village rather than against a community wide figure.