Explore Lockwood Folly Golf Community

Hey, everyone. Welcome to another community spotlight. Hi. My name is Brian Schrader. I'm with the Coastline NC Real Estate Team at Blue Coast Realty Corporation, down here in Southeastern North Carolina. Today's community spotlight, we're gonna talk about Lockwood Folly. Lockwood Folly is a neat little community. It's kinda tucked in this little maritime forest. As you drive in, it's got a long driveway to get to the actual gate of the community. But its location is very key. As you can see here, it's close. It sits right on the Intracoastal Waterway. It's close to both Oak Island and Holden Beach. Holden Beach by car, by boat both islands. So it sits at the mouth of both of these, the Lockwood Folly River Inlet. But as you can see here, we're gonna talk about the community aspects, the golf course, the amenities. The closest beach here by car is going to be Holden Beach. As you can see here in this clip, it's a it's a great beach. It's a one of the top rated family beaches in the United States. So here's some shots of it. Kinda just flying over some of the dunes here in the Atlantic Ocean, but let's take a look at where it's located on the map. As you can see here, the red arrow that's where Lockwood Folly sits. Lockwood Folly sits right along. It's kinda in between the Intracoastal Waterway and at one side of it borders the Lockwood Folly River, as well. So you can see really close to Holden Beach. It's about 3 miles from the, entrance to Lockwood Folly to Holden Beach. So as you can see, you can hop in your car and get to Holden Beach within minutes. This is kinda where you're gonna find, also too, right before Holden Beach, you'll find grocery stores, convenience factors and the next closest town is gonna be the town of Charlotte. It's about a 15, 10 minute drive as well to get to that area. But, let's take a look. This snapshot here is a snapshot of the flood zones. as you can see this is this is coastal. This is borders. One side is the river. One side is the intracoastal waterway. So, you know, you're gonna find some of these properties are gonna be in those a e and v zones. So what that means is that you own a property in these areas and you have a mortgage on it, you're gonna be required to carry flood insurance. But as you can see, I would say maybe 75% of the community is outside of those zones. So there's a shot of that. So any questions, feel free. you got questions on insurance, premiums, all that good stuff, just give me a holler. I'll post a number, at the end of this video to where you can reach out to me. But speaking of numbers, let's talk about the numbers here. So, taxes are based on assessed value. So if you own a home in La Quinta Valley that's assessed at 400,000, you'll roughly pay around 15.50 per year in annual real estate taxes. The h o a there is, 1628 per year and what that covers, it covers the community pool, the gate, the golf course, is actually, it's it's public. We'll talk about that there in a second. But it covers all the common areas around that, the roads. They also have the clubhouse with a meeting room. They have pickleball courts. They have an incredible boat ramp. So if you're in the boating, you can launch directly from the community. They also have a, community dock out front along the intracoastal waterway, restaurant and RV and boat storage and also tennis courts. The golf course there, it's a 18 hole willard bird design. It's semi private. They do sell outside membership so you don't have to live inside the community to get a membership and the memberships do not require an initiation fee which is pretty neat. But here you are pulling up to the gate here now. They do have a gate but, it's not really manned. so it's kinda more of a I think at one point in time, it was manned, but, I guess the HOA decided it wasn't important to do that. But here are some shots of the golf course. You'll see that a lot of the trees, still remain in this, in this area, which is pretty nice. They didn't clear cut it. So when you drive through the neighborhood, you kinda get a nice homey feel. There's a lot of, live oaks through the neighborhood, which is pretty cool as well. But as you can see here, here is a, some video clips of their pool area, clubhouse. It sits right along the, the waterway. It's got a little dock there as well. And, you know, just flying around, you could see how pretty this is to be able to come out here and have access to, this amenity. there's also some, pickleball courts and stuff in the background, but you can see there's some of those live oak trees, 100 year old trees that are still left on the property. And as you kinda stretch your eyes, you'll see this is part of the, Intracoastal Waterway as well. But here's some shots of the pickleball courts, the basketball courts. They also have bocce ball as well. And, they also have a series of tennis courts too. So there are, those are the amenities that you'll find within Lockwood Folly that residents enjoy pretty much all year round. but you'll also see this is another cool one. This, is leading them to their boat ramp. This is off of the Lockwood Folly River. So if you, have a boat, you have access to their boat and RV storage, but you can also launch right here from this boat ramp. This is a cool thing if you're into fishing. this area here, you can easily get up into the Lockwood Folly River for fishing or you can go go out the Intracoastal Waterway and be out in the ocean within probably a 8 minute boat ride. So pretty cool location here, if you're into fishing or boating because from here you get to a lot of other little tiny barrier islands that sit behind the beaches here of Oak Island and Holden Beach. So it's nothing to zip up from here into the, you know, town of Southport which is basically east from here in your boat. They got a lot of cool restaurants that are right on the waterway you can dock up. There's a few in the, there's the point in Shaloud as well and there's a few down at Holden Beach. So this is looking back. A few of the houses here do have their own private dock and boat slips in, Lockwood Folly. So most of them are gonna be found on the Lockwood Folly, inlet or Lockwood Folly River. But kinda getting back into the community as you drive through, the community has a lot of trees, so a lot of the homes are nestled within here. I'm gonna post a link in the description of this video so you can get an idea of what prices are on some of the homes and availability. But again, here's another aerial shot. You see the golf course, the homes nestled within the the forest, and you see the Lockwood Folly River, in the background as well to the right. But Lockwood Folly, it's it's a neat area. Again, you know, it's it's one of those neighborhoods. If it's kinda like quiet because it's away from the, you know, a lot of the the towns and the the, you know, the hustle and bustle, so to speak. So if you're looking for privacy, but want a golf course and want water access, it might be a great community to check out. so there's still there's a few home sites still available in here, but I would say the majority of the neighborhood is, build out. I would say probably about 90%. So most homes, are gonna be, you know, existing homes. again, I'm gonna post a link that's got everything for sale on it so you can check out the age of the homes, the the properties, and what's available, and what things have sold for in for any other questions, feel free to always give me a a call here at the number. Again, it's Brian Schrader with the Coastline NC Real Estate Team at Blue Coast Realty Corporation. I've been doing real estate down here for the past 20 plus years. We cover, counties in Southeastern North Carolina such as Pender, New Hanover, and all of Brunswick County. So if you have any questions, feel free to call me, text me, and we hope to see you guys here on the next community update. Take care now.