South Charlotte, North Carolina
Community by community, town by town. Schools, commutes, HOA fees, what is being built, and what homes are really selling for. Filmed on location and written up in full.
Every town and named community we cover, with everything written and filmed about it in one place.
Neighborhood pages tend to repeat whatever the builder said years ago, and the details that cost you money are the ones nobody updates. Providence Plantation runs an $80 voluntary HOA on top of covenants that are not voluntary at all. Encore at Streamside charges $330 a month plus a capital contribution. Cureton is 725 home lots across seven sections under one master HOA. Each one here is built from the county record, the current HOA documents and twelve months of Canopy MLS sales, and says which school assignment actually applies.
Cureton in Waxhaw is 725 home lots in seven sections under one master HOA. Twelve months of Canopy MLS sales…
Hollister in Waxhaw, NC as of September 2026: listing prices above $1 million, HOA dues, build years, thin inventory, and…
Quellin in Waxhaw, NC as of September 2026: the corrected build years, current listing prices, HOA dues, which amenities check…
Most people arrive knowing they want South Charlotte but not which town, and the town is what sets your tax bill, your schools and whether you get a police department of your own. Pineville carries the highest combined property tax rate in Mecklenburg County for 2025 to 2026. Wesley Chapel charges 2.25 cents per $100. Weddington has no town park and no police force of its own. Every town here gets the same treatment: the current ordinance, the budget, the Census figures, and the source named.
Your mailing address does not set your county, your school district or your tax rate. A town by town comparison…
Weddington keeps approving new subdivisions, but the ones it clears top out at 27 lots and the biggest applications get…
Weddington has approved $0 to build a park and $20,000 to design one. What the town has actually voted on,…
Almost every South Charlotte comparison online compares mailing addresses, and mailing addresses are not town lines, county lines or school assignments. The tax gap between Waxhaw and Weddington is 8.3 times. The county line near Matthews is worth 33.80 cents per $100. Crossing into South Carolina changes income tax, property assessment, vehicle fees and which school system you are in. These are the side by side pieces, each built on the 2026 rates with the source named, for the stretch where you are still choosing between two places.
North Carolina and two providers have committed 18.85 million dollars to build fiber to 3,452 Union County households. Here is…
The Fort Mill commute to Charlotte runs up I-77, where a widening plan with toll lanes came back on September…
A scouting trip is for eliminating areas and settling the state line question, not for finding a house. How to…
Parks, restaurants, events and places worth the drive across South Charlotte.
Forty-one South Charlotte fall events with a 2026 date confirmed against the organizer that published it, plus the three towns…
One is open, one opens September 26, and the rest are a construction site, bought land, a lapsed timeline and…
Waxhaw cut the ribbon on its Downtown Park at 301 Givens Street on March 1, 2024. What is actually on…
Growth stories travel fast around here and most of them are wrong by the time they reach you. Union County does not have a building moratorium. What it has is two wastewater plants sitting at 90.6 and 95.0 percent committed. Lancaster County does have one, extended by 90 days on August 10, 2026. Mecklenburg County sales tax went to 8.25 percent on July 1, 2026. What sits here is the development and local government news that changes what a house costs or what gets built next to it, traced back to the ordinance, the budget or the vote itself.
North Carolina's new accessory dwelling unit requirement takes effect January 15, 2027, and it applies only to cities of 50,000…
Mecklenburg County sales tax rose to 8.25% on July 1, 2026, the highest county rate in North Carolina. What it…
Weddington keeps approving new subdivisions, but the ones it clears top out at 27 lots and the biggest applications get…