Purchase price is half the story. Condo fees, maintenance, utilities, and resale patterns across five years.
A well-located townhome typically enters the market 20–30% below a comparable-area infill. The question is what happens to that gap over five years of fees, maintenance, utilities, and resale.
Fees first. A managed townhome carries $250–450 a month in condo or HOA fees; a bareland arrangement like our Crestline project runs far lighter because owners maintain their own envelopes. An infill has no fee at all, but its owner carries the roof, the furnace, and the landscaping alone.
“Purchase price is half the story; the other half arrives monthly.”
Utilities favour the townhome: shared walls are an insulation strategy. Resale favours the infill: land appreciates, improvements depreciate, and the infill owner holds more land. Across the five-year window, the two paths land closer than most buyers expect.
Our honest advice: buy the townhome for predictability, the infill for land. Both work. What fails is buying one while pricing it like the other. Bring us your numbers and we'll pressure-test them with real operating data from our own communities.