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There's a moment every homebuyer remembers — the first time you walk through a front door and think, this could be it. We're inviting you to have that moment at our brand-new model home, now open at The Highlands at Boiling Spring Lakes.
If you've been priced out of Wilmington, watching your dream of homeownership get pushed further and further from the coast, or you're relocating to North Carolina and searching for a place that feels like a real community instead of a subdivision — we built this place with you in mind.
One of the best parts of visiting The Highlands right now is that you don't have to imagine what it will look like someday — you can see it. Dozens of families have already moved in, planted gardens, put up fences, and made these houses homes. Walking the neighborhood, you'll see the mix of one- and two-story floor plans — like the Sage, the Autumn, and the Vineyard — each with its own character, all built on generous homesites that average a half-acre. That's real yard space, room for a garden, a swing set, or a dog that needs somewhere to run — something that's getting harder and harder to find close to the coast.
Homes here are designed for how people actually live: open-concept layouts, low-maintenance exteriors with sodded and irrigated yards, and thoughtful storage throughout. Whether you're a first-time buyer, a growing family, or downsizing without wanting to give up space, there's a floor plan here that fits.
And now, with our new model home open, you can walk through one of these designs in person — see the finishes, feel the flow of the layout, and picture your own furniture in the space.
Boiling Spring Lakes isn't a manufactured "lifestyle brand" community — it's a genuine North Carolina town with its own parks and recreation department, a growing list of amenities, and a slower pace that a lot of transplants from bigger cities find they didn't know they needed. Within the city, residents have access to:
The city is also in the middle of a major, fully-funded restoration of its namesake lakes — a multi-year project to rebuild the dams that were damaged by Hurricane Florence back in 2018. It's a big undertaking, and it's a sign of a town investing seriously in its own future. Once complete, it'll bring back the boating and fishing that gave Boiling Spring Lakes its name in the first place. In the meantime, there's no shortage of ways to get outside — golf, disc golf, pickleball, and trails are all right here, right now.
This is the part that sells people every time. From The Highlands, you're about 13 minutes from downtown Southport — routinely ranked one of the happiest and most charming small towns on the East Coast. Think oak-lined streets, a boardwalk along the Cape Fear River, art galleries, ice cream shops, and waterfront restaurants where you can watch shrimp boats come in at sunset. It's the kind of place people plan weekend trips around — and you'd get to call it your backyard.
And then there's the coast. Oak Island's beaches are roughly 15 minutes away, with Holden Beach and the rest of the Brunswick Islands not far beyond that. Trade a two-hour beach traffic slog for a short drive whenever the mood strikes — after work, on a random Tuesday, whenever.
For bigger-city conveniences, downtown Wilmington is about 35–40 minutes north, giving you access to more shopping, dining, and entertainment without the price tag that comes with living inside city limits.
We'd rather tell you ourselves than have you find it in a Google search later. In September 2024, a major storm dropped over a foot of rain on the region in a matter of hours, and the drainage system serving this neighborhood couldn't keep up — a number of homes in The Highlands took on water. It led to a disagreement between our team and the City of Boiling Spring Lakes over who was responsible for maintaining that infrastructure. That dispute was settled in early 2025: the city now owns and maintains the neighborhood's drainage ditches going forward, and as part of the agreement, improvements were made to the drainage along NC-87 and at the golf course culvert that were contributing to the problem.
We're not going to pretend it didn't happen. What we can tell you is that it's resolved, the responsibility for ongoing maintenance is clearly assigned, and the infrastructure fixes are in place. Building here — building anywhere on the coast — means taking storms seriously, and that's exactly what both the city and our team have done since.
Numbers and amenity lists can only tell you so much. The best way to understand what life at The Highlands feels like is to walk through our new model home, talk with our team, and see the neighborhood in person.
Visit our Welcome Center at 961 Plymouth Rd , Boiling Spring Lakes, NC to tour the new model and see current floor plans and availability.
We think once you see it, you'll understand why so many families have already made The Highlands home — and why yours might be next.
