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Your Community Guide · Shallotte, Brunswick County, North Carolina

Village Green

A half-acre-lot neighborhood off Pigott Road on the southwest side of Shallotte, eight minutes from Ocean Isle Beach. Two sections, one builder, and lot sizes you almost never see in new construction on this coast anymore. Here is how it is actually laid out — and what the dues do and don't cover.

Village Green is for buyers who want coastal access without feeling packed into a coastal subdivision. The streets feel open, the yards have room to breathe, and on the right homesite your view out back is trees or marsh instead of another row of rooftops. It is the kind of place where an evening walk stays quiet, a screened porch can actually feel private, and Ocean Isle Beach is close enough for a sunset visit without planning the whole day around it.

138homes in the approved subdivision plan
½ acre+typical homesite; several recorded above .60
2sections — Village Green and Waterside
~8 minto the sand at Ocean Isle Beach
1,128–2,292square feet across the plan library

Home count per Brunswick County planning records. Sizes and section availability per the builder's published plan library; both change as the community sells out.

Stan Powell, REALTOR and Broker, Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage, 10020 Beach Dr. SW, Calabash, NC 28467

“I wanted to create these Community Guides because every neighborhood along our coast has its own personality, history, and little details that you simply can't see in a listing search.

Over the past 20 years, I've worked with many of the builders who helped bring these communities to life, and I've watched them grow from the ground up. Along the way, I've had the privilege of welcoming so many people home here.

These guides are my way of sharing what makes each community different, what makes them special, and why so many people are proud to call them home.”

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Best fit for

The five things that decide whether this community is right for you. If most of them land, it's worth a tour.

See Every Active Listing in Village Green & Waterside Live MLS · Updated Daily

Two sections, and they are not the same purchase

Buyers say "Village Green" for everything inside the entrance. The MLS files part of it under Village Green SHLTE, and the newer phase is marketed separately as Waterside — which is why portal searches routinely miss half the inventory. The original section and Waterside were released at different times, at different price points, with different finish packages and different lots. Pick the one that fits and I'll send you live listings.

Village Green entrance monument on Pigott Road SW in Shallotte, NC
The entrance off Pigott Road SW. The community sits outside the Shallotte town limits, which matters for your tax bill.

Logan Homes developed and built Village Green — a regional builder out of Belville with a long Brunswick County track record, not a national production shop. That shows up in the lots. Where most new subdivisions on this side of the county cut sixty-foot-wide homesites to squeeze the yield, Village Green platted half-acre and larger parcels with wooded and marsh buffers left standing.

Think of the choice less as "old phase versus new phase" and more as two versions of the same idea. The original section is the straightforward value play: newer homes, unusually generous lots and a quieter, established feel. Waterside turns the dial toward scenery and finishes, especially where a porch or backyard opens toward marsh, water or preserved woods.

What follows is how I'd sort the inventory if you were sitting across from me at my Calabash office. Each collection has its own live search attached.

Village Green

The original section

The first phase, and the value end of the neighborhood. Predominantly one-level plans with two-car garages, offered in Craftsman and Coastal elevations, on the generous homesites that gave the community its reputation. The builder has moved this section into closeout, so what's left is a thin band of finished spec homes plus the resales starting to turn over.

What I like about this section is that the value is visible before you ever step inside a house. The setbacks are wider, the front yards are deeper, and many streets have the kind of spacing that new-construction buyers keep telling me they cannot find anymore. For someone who wants a newer home without the "house-next-to-house" feel, that matters every single day.

Plans run from a compact two-bedroom up to just under two thousand square feet, with a couple of two-story layouts for buyers who want four bedrooms without buying more lot.

  • Alder 1,128
  • Sweetbay 1,247
  • Hideaway 1,344
  • Tugboat 1,410
  • Honeybird 1,498
  • Sunrise 1,583
  • Fern 1,620
  • Riverstone 1,701
  • Pebble 1,731
  • Dayspring 1,741
  • Rosebay 1,865
  • Pintail 1,950
View homes in the original section Live MLS · updated daily
Streetscape of single-level homes in the original section of Village Green, Shallotte NC
An original-section street. Wide setbacks, deep front yards, and enough space between houses that you are not looking into your neighbor's kitchen.
Looking down a street of single-level homes in the original section of Village Green, Shallotte NC
Looking down the same street. The gaps between driveways are the lot widths doing their work, and the canopy is already starting to fill in.
Craftsman elevation single-story home with two-car garage in Village Green
A Craftsman elevation. Board-and-batten gable, covered entry, two-car garage — the standard massing through most of this section.
Typical size
1,128 – 1,950 sq ft
Bedrooms
2 – 4
Baths
2 – 3
Stories
Mostly one level; two two-story plans
Garage
2-car attached on nearly all plans
Homesite
Commonly ⅓ to ⅔ acre
Elevations
Craftsman and Coastal
Builder
Logan Homes
Status
Closeout, plus owner resales
White single-story home with dark board-and-batten gable, stone accent and two-car garage on a deep homesite in Village Green, Shallotte NC
Gable trim, a stone skirt and a long driveway. The front lawn runs deep because the lot has the room for it — that depth is what you are paying for here.

Waterside at Village Green

Newest section

Where the lot and the view become part of the house.

The extension, and a genuinely different product. Waterside sits on the marsh-facing side of the property, with an upgraded interior finish package and a separate, larger plan library. If you have been comparing the two on a portal and could not work out why the prices diverged by a hundred thousand dollars, this is why — you were looking at two different offerings that share an entrance.

Waterside is where the community becomes more about the view. On the right homesite, morning coffee can mean marsh grass and open sky instead of a privacy fence, and a covered porch becomes a room you actually want to use. Those lots are not interchangeable, which is exactly why I would rather walk them with a buyer than choose one from a color-coded site plan.

Several of these homesites carry standing water views or a wooded rear buffer, and the premium attached to those lots is where most of the price spread lives. Homesite premiums are the single most misunderstood line on a new-construction worksheet, and the one I spend the most time on with buyers.

  • Bay 1,675
  • Skyline 1,741
  • Yellowfin 1,741
  • Powell 1,857
  • Greenfield 1,946
  • Cape 1,992–2,292
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Marsh view behind a homesite at Waterside at Village Green, Shallotte NC
The marsh edge behind the Waterside homesites. This view is the premium, and it is worth walking the actual lot before you commit to one.
Two-story Craftsman home at Waterside at Village Green with covered front porch
A Waterside elevation. Deeper porches, heavier trim detail and a finish package a clear step above the original section.
Wooded buffer behind a Waterside homesite in Village Green, Shallotte NC, with marsh and water visible through the trees
A little further along the same edge. Where the trees were left standing, the marsh reads as glimpses through the canopy rather than an open view — a different thing to live with, and worth seeing for yourself.
Typical size
1,675 – 2,292 sq ft
Bedrooms
3 – 4
Baths
2 – 3
Garage
2-car attached
Homesite
Wooded and marsh-view lots
Finish level
Upgraded package vs. original section
Builder
Logan Homes
Status
Actively selling
Craftsman home with stone porch piers and shingled gable on a wooded homesite in Village Green, Shallotte NC
Stone porch piers, shingle detail in the gable, a full-width covered porch. Front elevations like this one are what the resale inventory here looks like.

Owner resales

Where the value usually is

The neighborhood, already settled in.

The homes that closed as the community filled in are now starting to come back to market, and for a lot of my buyers this is the smartest lane in the neighborhood. A resale here typically arrives with the things a spec home does not: window screens, storm doors, gutters, blinds, a finished patio or screened porch, landscaping past the builder's minimum, and a garage floor that has already been coated.

There is also something different about buying the version of the neighborhood that has already had a few seasons to grow in. The shrubs have filled out, the porch is screened, the blinds are hung, and the backyard already looks like somebody planned to spend time in it. For buyers who want to arrive and start living rather than start another project list, that can be worth more than the word "new."

Add that list up honestly and it is routinely fifteen to twenty-five thousand dollars of post-closing spend that the first owner absorbed. On a half-acre lot, the landscaping gap alone is worth a serious look before you assume new is the better buy.

See Every Active Listing in Village Green & Waterside Live MLS · Updated Daily
White Coastal elevation with brick water table, covered entry and newly planted beds in Village Green, Shallotte NC
A Coastal elevation on handover day — brick water table, covered entry, and beds just planted. This is the baseline a new home starts from, and it is exactly what a resale two or three seasons on no longer looks like.
Single-story home with stone accent, black shutters and established landscaping in Village Green, Shallotte NC
A single-level plan with the beds grown in and standing trees along the rear boundary. Closer to what the resale inventory here actually looks like by the time it reaches the market.
Home age
Recent construction, already settled
Typical size
1,128 – 2,292 sq ft
Usually already added
Screens, gutters, blinds, patio
Landscaping
Past builder minimum
Warranty
Balance of structural coverage may transfer
Negotiation
Price and terms both on the table

More space. Less shared overhead.

The amenity here is the lot

I would rather tell you this plainly than let you find out on a showing: Village Green has no clubhouse, no community pool, no fitness room and no gate. That is not an oversight in the planning — it is the trade the developer made, and for a particular kind of buyer it is the better one.

The easiest way to understand the trade is to picture your Saturdays. Some buyers want to walk to a clubhouse, join a pool group and have the neighborhood program the social calendar. Others would rather open the back door to their own space, keep the boat close, grill on a porch that is not six feet from the next porch, and decide for themselves when the beach, Riverwalk or golf course becomes the day's amenity. Village Green is much more naturally the second kind of community.

Mature hardwoods left standing on either side of a driveway at a homesite in Village Green, Shallotte NC
Mature hardwoods left standing on both sides of the drive. Nobody scraped this lot flat to save a few weeks of site work, and you can read that from the street.

Here is the arithmetic nobody puts on a brochure. A pool, a clubhouse and a fitness room have to be insured, staffed, chemically maintained, resurfaced and eventually replaced, and every one of those costs sits inside somebody's dues.

What you get here instead is a half-acre-plus homesite with a buffer behind it. If your idea of a Saturday is your own yard, a boat in the driveway and the sand eight minutes away, that is a straight upgrade. If you were counting on a clubhouse card game to build a social circle after a move from out of state, be honest with yourself about it now — I can show you the communities in this corridor that genuinely deliver that.

Half-acre-plus homesites

The defining feature. Recorded lots in the community run from about a third of an acre up past two-thirds — sizes that essentially stopped being platted in new coastal Brunswick subdivisions a decade ago.

Wooded and marsh buffers

A meaningful number of homesites back to standing trees or to the marsh edge rather than to another house. Which specific lots have a protected buffer versus a future neighbor is a question worth asking before you write.

No amenity assessment

No pool, no clubhouse, no fitness center — and therefore no operating cost or reserve contribution for any of them sitting inside your dues.

Room to add on

The lot depth here supports a detached garage, a workshop, a screened addition or a pool in a way a sixty-foot lot simply does not. Subject to architectural review and county setbacks — get the guidelines before you plan.

County water and sewer

Connected to Brunswick County utilities, so no well and no septic field eating into the yard you just paid for.

Brunswick County schools

Zoned for Union Elementary, Shallotte Middle and West Brunswick High. Assignments change — verify with the district for the specific address.

Public recreation minutes away

Shallotte Riverwalk, Shallotte Township Park and Ocean Isle Town Center Park cover most of what a community amenity center would, without the assessment.

Water access nearby

Public boat ramps, kayak launches and Ferry Landing Park on the Intracoastal are a short drive — and the lots here are deep enough to actually store the boat.

Boardwalk over the water at sunset on the Shallotte Riverwalk
The Shallotte Riverwalk at sunset. Ten minutes from the entrance, and the reason a private walking trail was never really the selling point here.
Boardwalk curving along open water and marsh grass in late afternoon light
The same boardwalk in late-day light, where it opens onto the marsh. Public, free, and maintained by somebody other than your HOA.

Shallotte does the heavy lifting

The other half of the trade is where the community sits. You are minutes from the Highway 17 retail corridor — groceries, hardware, the hospital, restaurants — rather than twenty minutes out from all of it the way you are in several of the amenity-heavy communities further inland.

That convenience is easy to underestimate on a map. Living here means a grocery run can stay a grocery run, a dinner out does not require a half-hour drive home, and a beach morning does not force you to give up the rest of the day. You can live close to the coast without making every errand feel like you live on an island.

For full-time residents that convenience tends to outrank a pool by the second year. For second-home buyers it is the difference between a Friday-night arrival that is easy and one that is not.

The question everyone asks second

What the dues cover

Village Green's dues are at the low end for this corridor, for a straightforward reason: there is very little to maintain. Understand what that buys you and what it leaves on your plate.

Generally included

  • Entrance, signage and common-area upkeep
  • Stormwater ponds and drainage infrastructure
  • Common-area electric and street lighting
  • Association insurance on common property
  • Professional management and reserves

Yours, not the association's

  • Lawn care and irrigation on your own lot
  • All exterior maintenance, roof and siding
  • Termite bond and pest treatment
  • Any pool, shed, fence or addition you put in
  • Homeowner's insurance on the structure

How it's governed

  • Covenants run across both the original section and Waterside
  • Declarant control typically remains with the builder until build-out
  • Architectural review governs fences, outbuildings, pools and exterior changes
  • Rental and lease restrictions, if any, sit in the recorded documents

Why there's no dollar figure on this page: because the ones on the national portals are frequently years out of date, and quoting a stale number is worse than quoting none. Dues change with the budget year, and they can change again when declarant control transfers to the homeowners.

Beach-close without living by the bridge clock

Off Pigott Road, closer to the sand than the address suggests

The mailing address says Shallotte, which leads a lot of out-of-state buyers to assume they are inland. Look at the map instead: Ocean Isle Beach is the closest strand, and it is under ten minutes.

For a lot of relocating buyers, this is the sweet spot: close enough that the beach can be spontaneous, but far enough off the island that your daily routine is not controlled by bridge traffic, vacation rentals and summer parking. That balance is a big part of why this side of Shallotte works so well for both full-time and second-home owners.

Access is off Pigott Road SW, a short hop from US 17. That gives you the retail corridor in one direction and the beach road in the other without ever having to fight through downtown Shallotte at five o'clock.

It also puts you outside the Shallotte municipal limits, which is worth confirming on any specific parcel — town versus county jurisdiction affects the property tax bill and, sometimes, what you are allowed to build in the back yard.

Ocean Isle Beach — the sand
~8 min
Sunset Beach
~14 min
Holden Beach
~24 min
Downtown Shallotte & US 17 retail
~5 min
Shallotte Riverwalk
~10 min
Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center
~10 min
Rivers Edge Golf Club
~10 min
Calabash & the seafood row
~20 min
North Myrtle Beach
~30 min
Myrtle Beach International Airport
~45 min
Wilmington
~50 min

Drive times are approximate and assume off-season traffic. Add time on a summer Saturday, particularly toward the island bridges.

Streets you'll see in the listings

If you're cross-referencing addresses from a portal, these are inside the community:

Not a complete list — ask me if you're unsure whether an address falls inside the association.

Who this community fits

Village Green tends to make the most sense for buyers who rank homesite, privacy and location above a long amenity list. If you want a newer home, room around it, quick access to Ocean Isle Beach and Shallotte, and the freedom to create more of your own outdoor lifestyle, this community deserves a serious look.

If a staffed clubhouse and a built-in social calendar are non-negotiable, I would point you somewhere else — and that is exactly the kind of distinction worth knowing before you spend a weekend touring.

Questions I get about Village Green

Is Village Green a 55+ community?

No. Village Green in Shallotte is an all-ages neighborhood zoned to Brunswick County schools. Some of the confusion comes from a different Village Green — an age-restricted community in Southern Pines, on the other side of the state — which several national directories return first when you search the name. If age-restricted living is what you actually want, I can point you to the communities in this corridor that genuinely are.

What's the difference between Village Green and Waterside at Village Green?

Waterside is the newer extension on the marsh-facing side of the property. It has its own, larger plan library, an upgraded interior finish package, and homesites carrying water-view or wooded-buffer premiums. The original section is smaller plans at a lower price point and is in builder closeout. They share an entrance and a set of covenants, but they are not the same purchase — which is why the price ranges look so far apart on a portal.

Is this the same as Village Point in Shallotte?

No, and this trips people up constantly. Village Point is a separate, older Shallotte neighborhood off a different road with its own HOA and its own dues. There are also Village Green communities in Southern Pines, Chapel Hill and Wilmington, all unrelated. If you are comparing listings you found on a national site, send me the addresses and I'll tell you which neighborhood each one is actually in.

Does Village Green have a pool or clubhouse?

No — no pool, no clubhouse, no fitness room and no gate. That is a deliberate trade. It keeps the dues low and there is no amenity reserve quietly building toward a resurfacing assessment. The offset is the lot size and the location. Whether that's the right trade depends entirely on how you plan to spend your time here, and it's worth talking through honestly before you tour.

Are the lots really half an acre?

Many of them are, and some are larger — recorded homesites in the community range from roughly a third of an acre up past two-thirds. But it varies lot to lot, and the ones with a genuinely protected wooded or marsh buffer behind them are a subset, not the whole community. Never take the marketing range as a promise about a specific address. I pull the recorded plat and the survey on every one of these.

Can I still buy new, or is it all resale now?

Both, at the moment. The original section is in closeout, so the new inventory there is thin and moving. Waterside is actively selling with homes in various stages of construction. And owner resales are starting to appear in both sections. Which of the three is the better buy depends on your timeline and what you're willing to do yourself after closing.

Should I use my own agent if I'm buying new construction here?

The representative you meet in a builder's model home works for the builder. That's not a criticism — it's their job, and a good one will treat you well. But they are not negotiating on your behalf on the homesite premium, the incentive structure, the lender credit, the inspection items or the walk-through punch list. I spent a long stretch of my career on the builder's side of that table, which is precisely why I'm useful on yours. There is no cost to you for bringing me — but you generally must register me on your first visit, so call before you go.

How's the resale market in Village Green?

I publish a branded market snapshot for the community covering absorption rate, days on market and closed price trends. Ask me for the current edition — it's free and there's no obligation attached to it.

Thinking about Village Green?

Whether you're already watching one particular house or still trying to work out which Shallotte-area community fits you, I'm glad to help you sort through it.

Send me the address you're considering — even if you found it on Zillow, on Realtor.com or on another agent's website. I'll tell you which section it sits in, what I know about who built it, what I'd want investigated before an offer, and how it stacks up against the other options around Shallotte and Ocean Isle Beach.

Sometimes the best first step isn't scheduling a showing. It's understanding what you're looking at.

Send me an address to look at

Stan Powell, Broker / REALTOR® · Your New Home Advisor · (910) 274-5067

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