Ladera Highland Village — Highland Village, TX

You Are Buying a Condo That Looks Like a House

Epcon used a condominium declaration — recorded under Denton County clerk’s file no. 2017-117884 and subsequently amended — for this development, the same legal structure they applied to Ladera at Tavolo Park in Fort Worth. From the street, this is indistinguishable from any other single-story neighborhood: detached homes, attached garages, private courtyards. In the county record, you own a condominium unit with a percentage interest in the common area. The practical consequences of that distinction, which the Tavolo pairing method explains in full, are three: lenders run a project-approval review before approving your loan (warrantability), your insurance policy covers interior and personal property under an HO-6 structure rather than a full homeowners policy because the association carries a master policy on the structure, and the resale certificate under Texas Property Code §82 is the governing document you are entitled to before closing — not just before contract.

Managed by Principal Management Group of North Texas (an Associa subsidiary) — the resale certificate runs $375 with a one-day expedited option at $125. The HOA fee is not published across any portal we have found; it must be confirmed in writing from the current association schedule, which is the right behavior anyway since Epcon’s condo assessments vary by site and year. That confirm-in-writing request is the first step of the condo homework here, before a lender is called.

Highland Village Is the Community Outside the Gate

This is what makes the address different from Justin or even Flower Mound: Highland Village is a finished, award-winning suburb with the Shops at Highland Village — the outdoor lifestyle center with national retailers and restaurants — two minutes up Chinn Chapel Road, a 10-rated elementary school (Heritage Elementary) at the neighborhood’s edge, and Lake Lewisville State Park about ten minutes west. The city itself has invested heavily in parks and trails; Epcon’s 11.85 acres of community ponds, pocket parks, and gazebos connects to that larger network. The honest caveat the Walk Score makes plainly: everything good about Highland Village requires a car to reach, because the suburb is car-built to its core. A Walk Score of 2 is not a design flaw in a place this nice — it is a description.

The on-site amenity package is standard Epcon: activity center with exercise room and gathering spaces, putting green, pickleball court, resort pool with lounge and outdoor kitchen. At 100 homes the community runs at boutique scale — deeper than 33 cottages at South Village next door in the market, but not the programmed calendar of a 1,000-home club community. If you need the infrastructure, the Shops are the easy answer; if you need the programmed activity calendar, Frisco Lakes is twenty minutes south.

A Condo Bill on the Metro\u2019s Lightest County Stack

The combination is unusual enough to name directly: this is a condo (lender homework required, insurance split in your favor) in Denton County (no hospital district, school-dominated bill the over-65 toolkit attacks fully) in Lewisville ISD (solid rate discipline, historically around 2.1–2.2% combined). That pairing is different from Tavolo Park, which is a condo in Tarrant County with the JPS overlay, and different from the fee-simple Denton Laderas (Timberbrook, Little Elm) whose condo homework does not apply. At resale values of $400K–$500K and the $200K senior shield, the over-65 exemption stack covers a wide share of the school-taxable base, then freezes it. The one line left floating is the non-school Denton stack — lighter than anywhere in the metro because Denton has no hospital district. Denton County tax guide · the over-65 toolkit.

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