You have been dreaming, planning, and are now ready to build your dream custom home. Below we have compiled a list of some of the best home locations that Central Oregon has to offer.
• Aspen Lakes
Aspen Lakes Golf Course Estates offers luxury among the picturesque city of Sisters Oregon. An upscale gated community within the beautifully designed and award-winning William Overdorf Golf Course offers amenities such as a pool, sports courts, and dining.
• Awbrey Butte
Awbrey Butte is in one of Bend Oregon’s most exclusive communities. Building your custom home in Awbrey Butte allows you to enjoy the sweeping views of much of the Cascade Range to the North, and Mount Bachelor on the southern side while enjoying the option of many country clubs. Guidelines within the community allow a lifestyle of luxury and sophistication.
• Black Butte Ranch
Black Butte Ranch is a private resort community located just 8 miles northwest of Sisters at the base of the stunning Cascade Mountains. Settled at the foot of Black Butte, an extinct stratovolcano, Black Butte Ranch sits among a ponderosa forest and boasts of meadows and lakes. This community thrives with an opportunity for those desiring a lifestyle of mountain biking, hiking, golf, and skiing.
• Brasada Ranch
Brasada Ranch is a thriving, active, family-friendly community located just 25 minutes outside of Bend, Oregon. Build your custom home in one of the top resorts in all the Pacific Northwest, where you will enjoy panoramic views of the Cascades, numerous recreational activities such as world-class dining, championship golf, biking, hiking, luxury spa services, and more.
• Tetherow
Tetherow borders the Deschutes National Forest on the west side of Bend, Oregon, leaving a sense of wide-open space that defies its location just minutes from town. These lots are spread across 700 acres and divided into individual neighborhoods, giving an intimate
feel to a community that has much to offer, including the Scottish heathlands-style 18-hole championship golf course, spa, hotel, and restaurants.
• Caldera Springs
Caldera Springs is in Sunriver, Oregon, and offers top luxury living. This top-rated resort offers many amenities such as community lakes, streams, and ponds, dog parks, miles of paved and soft trails, hiking, biking, a fitness center, a pool, and many other new amenities on the horizon.
• Crosswater
Crosswater is just 15 miles south of bend. A beautiful 600-acre golf course community that offers spacious estate homes, and resort luxury living.
• Eagle Crest
Eagle Crest offers a rural/suburban mixed feeling offering it all. A premiere full-service residential resort offering amenities including three 18-hole golf courses, dining, relaxing at the spa, fly fishing on the Deschutes River, three sports centers, biking, hiking trails, and horseback riding at the Resort.
• Three Rivers
Three Rivers, named for the three rivers that flow through the area is located south of Bend, and north of La Pine. Three Rivers South offers neighborhoods with varying price ranges and offer acreage as well as riverfront property. Three Rivers has a diverse group of neighborhoods that vary in price range, including Crosswater and Caldera Springs.
• Powell Butte
Powell Butte is an unincorporated community located between Redmond, Oregon, and Prineville, Oregon. A rural area with a setting that is perfect for the outdoor enthusiast. The Unincorporated community can offer extra privacy, more real estate flexibility, and an opportunity to live without additional government regulation.
• Pronghorn
Pronghorn is a luxury neighborhood with recreational amenities in the NE area of Bend, Oregon. This resort community offers expansive views of the championship golf courses and the cascade mountains.
• Sisters
Sisters is a thriving and active community with lakes, rivers, and mountains that create a recreational wonderland. Offering a suburban feel within a tight-knit community, Sisters is highly sought after and an ideal city for your custom home in Central Oregon.
• Terrebonne
Terrebonne is home to the famous Smith Rock and is located only 30 minutes from the city limits of Bend, Oregon. Building your custom home in Terrebonne will give you the benefit of a very small city, lower land costs, recreational activities, and is still a reasonable distance to more populated cities such as Redmond, and Bend.
• Redmond
Redmond, Oregon, is often less expensive to live in than Bend and maintains a smaller hometown feel. The city offers dog parks, swimming, boating, breweries, outdoor recreation, Redmond Municipal Airport, and the Deschutes County fairgrounds. Located only 20 minutes from Bend, Oregon you can have the convenience of all that Bend offers while enjoying the benefits of living in Redmond.
Central Oregon has much to offer for those building their custom home. While this is not a complete compilation of buildable neighborhoods, and availability in Central Oregon is ever-changing, this is a great introduction to get the conversation started with your homebuilder/designer about the lifestyle you want to live in your custom home.