The plateau's most buyer-friendly club, the highest elevation of the five, with an 80 percent equity refund and a Forbes spa in town.
The plateau's most buyer-friendly club, the highest elevation of the five, with an 80 percent equity refund and a Forbes spa in town.
Old Edwards Club sits at roughly forty-seven hundred feet, the highest of these five, which buys the coolest summers and the most dramatic ridgeline views. The four-hundred-acre gated community runs from condominiums to cottages to single-family homes, closer to walkable Highlands than the Cashiers clubs, and its membership ties to the Old Edwards Inn and Spa, a Forbes five-star property in the village. A Tom Jackson course earns Golf Digest recognition, and a generous family policy covers parents, children, and grandchildren under one membership.
The standout is structure: the club refunds eighty percent of the membership fee on exit, unusual on the plateau and genuinely buyer-protective. Specific real estate and fee figures are less transparent than peers and should be confirmed. For a buyer who wants Highlands village at the doorstep, a spa connection, and downside protection on the buy-in, this is the smart-money pick.
Highlands' Main Street weekend, with golf above the village and a par-three course lit for night play.
Breakfast at Mountain Fresh Grocery, in-house roast and a proper butcher, then the Tom Jackson course at Highlands Cove, eighteen holes above the village.
The Saddle at GlenCove, Old Edwards' twelve-hole Beau Welling par three between the towns, lit for play after dark. Bring the ringer and the skeptic both.
The Bascom's exhibitions run all season, and the Highlands Playhouse stages professional summer theater two blocks off Main.
Madison's at Old Edwards Inn, seed-to-plate from the hotel's own garden. The Ugly Dog Pub afterward if there is bluegrass on.
The US 64 waterfall corridor west: walk behind Dry Falls, idle past Bridal Veil, brunch back on Main Street before the plateau lets you go.
Inventory inside these gates moves quietly, and the best of it often trades before it is broadly marketed. Ask us what is available in Old Edwards Club this week, including what has not hit the portals.
Before you tour a single home, an Advisory Conversation tells you whether Old Edwards Club actually fits the life you are trying to build, and what the move is worth under the new Carolina tax math.