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South Village exists for buyers who wanted the Watermere setting — the 67-acre landscaped campus south of Southlake Boulevard, minutes from Town Square — without underwriting a hospitality operation. The 33 cottages were custom builds by four local builders, generally 2,500 to 3,600 sq ft, and the association keeps its scope deliberately narrow: the gate, front-yard maintenance, and the shared tennis court, private fishing lake, and covered pavilion. That is the whole amenity sheet, and it is why the dues sit near $2,500 a year instead of the main community\u2019s published $2,950 a month.
Two precision points for shoppers. First, resale inventory here is genuinely scarce — 33 households, fully sold out since construction, with listings surfacing on River Brook Way addresses; patience is part of the price. Second, do not confuse this section with the adjacent 31-home Darling Homes streets (Veranda Way), which carry no age restriction and belong to neither association — a distinction a listing description will not always volunteer.
Who Wins This Trade
The South Village buyer keeps roughly $33,000 a year relative to the club community next door and spends it however they like — their own country club, travel, or nothing at all. What they forgo is everything that fee buys: on-site dining, the spa, the concierge, the staffed social engine. At 33 homes there is no activity calendar to speak of; your social infrastructure is your own. For self-directed retirees with established Southlake lives, that is the entire appeal. For relocators arriving without a local network, the main Watermere community — or a programmed community like Frisco Lakes — does the connecting that 33 cottages cannot. Carroll ISD territory and a clean entity list keep the tax picture conventional; values here run with custom-Southlake pricing, so the over-65 school shield covers a smaller share than it would at mainstream price points. Details: the Tarrant County tax guide.
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