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Bowling Green sits between Heritage and downtown on half-acre lots, under trees that have had a couple of decades to grow in. There are about 180…
Capital Creek is a 312-unit garden-style apartment community off Capital Boulevard near Gateway Commons, built in 2019, with a resort-style pool and a dog park. Rent…
Crenshaw Hall has a neighborhood pool, which is not a given in a subdivision of about 150 houses. The homes are two-story traditionals built between 2002…
Dansforth has a Fourth of July golf-cart parade, which tells you most of what you need to know about it. The houses went up between 2004…
Del Webb at Traditions is the age-restricted piece of the larger Traditions community, set aside for buyers 55 and older. It has its own amenity center…
Galloway is about 140 houses off Burlington Mills Road, on the stretch that runs toward Rolesville. There is a pool and a cabana, and the neighborhood…
Royall Cotton Mill put up these cottages for the people who worked in it, starting around 1900 and continuing into the 1920s. About 200 of them…
Grand Highland Estates is acre-plus lots off Highway 98, on well and septic, with no streetlights and horses on a few of the properties. Roughly 120…
Grove 98 is new construction at the doorstep of Traditions, on Highway 98, and it is the cheapest way into this part of town. About 300…
Hasentree is a gated community of roughly 700 homes on the edge of Falls Lake, built around a Tom Fazio golf course and a country club.…
Heritage is the largest planned community in Wake Forest, and at roughly 2,800 homes it works less like a subdivision than like a district of the…
Heritage Garden is a 240-unit apartment community inside Heritage, close enough to the village center that the bakery, the pizza place and Heritage High are all…
This is the original town. The old Wake Forest College campus, now the seminary, anchors it. Faculty Avenue has the houses the professors lived in, and…
Holding Village is built around a 30-acre lake, which no other neighborhood in town can say. It is master-planned and large, roughly 1,000 homes at build-out,…
Holding Village South Lake is the later phase of Holding Village, built on the south side of the lake from 2020 onward. It is about 250…
Majestic Oaks is roughly 160 houses on larger-than-average lots under mature hardwoods, just south of Heritage Village. The trees are the point. The canopy was already…
Northampton is the practical answer to the Heritage schools. About 260 homes went up here between 2001 and 2006, split between townhomes and single-family houses, which…
A stream runs through the middle of this subdivision, which is where the name comes from and why a good number of lots back up to…
Patterson Woods is small, about 120 houses off Ligon Mill, and it kept its trees. The lots are wooded, which is the first thing you notice…
Prestleigh is one of the newest subdivisions in Wake Forest, and it is still going up. Building started in 2023, and the plan calls for about…
Prestwicke is roughly 110 houses off Wait Avenue, north of Crenshaw Hall, on lots that run larger than the ones in newer subdivisions. The pool is…
St. Ives has sidewalks and a pool, and a lot of the people who bought the houses new are still in them. About 240 homes went…
Stonegate at St. Andrews is a mix of townhomes and modest single-family houses off Capital Boulevard, near the Wakefield line, and it has one of the…
Stonewater is a single-family neighborhood off Capital Boulevard, sitting behind the Walmart, and the location undersells it. Past that retail frontage are about 280 houses built…
The Cove at Falls Lake is about 80 wooded lots of one to two acres along the lake, with a community dock and a kayak launch…
The Homestead at Heritage is the newest section of Heritage, about 180 Craftsman-style houses built between 2016 and 2020, tucked off Rogers Road with a pool…
The Meadows is one of the larger established subdivisions in town, around 200 houses south of the town center off South Main. It has a small…
The Registry at Bennett Park is a small townhome neighborhood, about 130 units, built between 2018 and 2021 behind the Gateway Commons shopping center. That location…
The Stonewalls is about ninety houses on half-acre lots, sitting behind the stone entrance that gives the neighborhood its name off Jenkins Road. A small pond…
Traditions is the largest master-planned community on the north side of Wake Forest, with about 1,600 homes planned and construction still underway since 2013. It has…
Villagio at La Scala is a 280-unit apartment community off Capital Boulevard in Wake Forest, sitting behind the Walmart, with Mediterranean styling and a clubhouse and…
Wakefield is technically a Raleigh address, and anyone who tells you otherwise is rounding. It borders Wake Forest, it shares the same retail, and enough of…
Waterstone Reserve is a half-acre-lot subdivision still going up between the Traditions community and Falls Lake. About 110 homes are planned, construction started in 2022, and…
Wexford Reserve is about 90 houses on wooded lots off Highway 98, built between 2019 and 2023 and now finished. A pond sits inside it. The…
Woodfield Creek is the newest apartment complex in Wake Forest, finished in 2021, with 296 units, a saltwater pool and a coworking lounge. Rent runs about…