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stone veneer for the facade. Many
of the houses will have a front
porch. All of the single-family
house plans include, as an option,
a finished lower level, with a
bedroom and full bathroom
among the possible uses.
All of the townhouses and sin-
gle-family houses will be Energy
Star-certified. Adler said they will
have “higher energy efficiency
than is required by the county.”
Improvements include the ZIP
System wall sheathing, a new
approach to weatherization that
increases energy efficiency as
well as water resistance.
Scotland Heights is about 25miles southeast of D.C. and
roughly the same distance from
the Capital Beltway (Interstate
495). Residents have easy access
to Routes 301 and 210. Adler said
they need cars to get around.
Waldorf has experienced dra-
matic growth in recent decades,
from fewer than 5,000 residents
in 1980 to more than 75,000,
according to the 2022 World Pop-
ulation Review.
Oliver said his family is at-
tached to Scotland Heights be-
cause of “its great location and
the anticipation of the things that
Dream Finders will build for the
community.”Buying New Scotland Heights in Charles County
BY LISA M. BOLTON
Derrick Oliver and his wife,
Malaika, snapped up their home
in Scotland Heights, a neighbor-
hood in Waldorf, Md., in 2018,
after he left his job at the Penta-
gon. They were drawn, he said, to
the Charles County school dis-
trict, for their youngest daughter,
and appreciated the neighbor-
hood’s easy access to major high-
ways in fast-growing Southern
Maryland.
Their four-bedroom, three-
bathroom single-family house
cost $450,000 and is part of a
community, just off Berry Road,
where residential development
began a few years ago with 78
single-family houses and 108
townhouses. But then construc-
tion stopped with most of the
home sites undeveloped.
Now development of Scotland
Heights has resumed. Dream
Finders Homes, a nationwide de-
velopment company, bought the
remaining home sites and plans
to build 169 townhouses and 94
single-family houses there, said
Jon Adler, president of the com-
pany’s capital region division.
Recently, builders began ad-
vanced sales on townhouses rang-
ing from about 2,000 to 2,500
square feet and single-family
houses ranging from about 2,550
to more than 5,000 square feet.
Base prices range from
$400,000 to $470,000 for town-
houses and $570,000 to $700,000
for single-family houses, said
Melanie Green Karol, director of
sales and marketing for Dream
Finders.
“It has what I like to call a
built-in move-up market,” Adler
said. “With two sizes of town-
homes and three sizes of sin-
gle-family homes, there are op-
tions. When a person or family
outgrows the townhome, you can
move up to a single family.”
A pool and a clubhouse are
planned. New homes are expect-
ed to be move-in ready in the fall.
All residences come with some
high-end features at no extra cost.
These include hardwood floors,
flex space, gourmet kitchens with
stainless-steel appliances, and
luxurious owner’s suites with spa
baths.
Townhouses are offered in two
floor plans, and both come stan-
dard with three bedrooms, two
bathrooms and a powder room
(or half-bath). Buyers have a
choice between three- and four-
level townhouses. A fourth bed-
room is an optional upgrade.
The 20-foot-wide townhouses
have a two-car garage in the rear.
The 24-foot-wide townhouses
have a two-car garage in front.There are seven floor plans for
single-family houses, and they all
include two-car garages. The
number of bedrooms ranges from
three to five and the number of
bathrooms from two and a pow-der room (half-bath) to four, de-
pending on the product pur-
chased. All of the plans have
optional kitchen and family room
extensions.
Buyers have a choice of brick orIt’s a home-building revival in Waldorf, Md.
PHOTOS BY BENJAMIN C TANKERSLEY F OR THE WASHINGTON POST
ABOVE: T he entrance to Scotland Heights in Waldorf, Md., where 78 single-family houses and 108 townhouses were built a few years ago,
before work stopped. BELOW: New sites are prepared near existing homes; 94 single-family houses and 169 townhouses are underway.SCOTLAND HEIGHTS
10050 Selkie Lane, Waldorf, Md.
Schools : William A. Diggs Elementary, Theodore G. Davis Middle and
North Point High.
Transit : Scotland Heights is about a half-hour drive from Metro’s Branch
Avenue station, on the Green Line, in Suitland, just north of the Capital
Beltway (I-495). It is about a 30- to 40-minute ride from there into D.C.
Nearby : Waldorf’s minor league baseball team, the Blue Crabs; the 13½-
mile paved Indian Head Rail Trail; the Ghost Fleet of the Potomac, a
national marine sanctuary with about 200 sunken ships; St. Charles
Towne Center, a shopping mall with more than 100 businesses; Joint Base
Andrews, the home of Air Force One.
The plan calls for 169 townhouses and 94 single-family homes. Base
prices range from $400,000 to $470,000 for townhouses and $570,000
to $700,000 for single-family houses. Residences are expected to be
move-in ready in the fall.
Builder: Dream Finders Homes
Features: Chef-style kitchens with stainless-steel appliances, hardwood
floors
Bedrooms/bathrooms: townhouses, 3/2½; single-family houses, 3 to 5/
2½ to 4.
Square-footage: townhouses, 2,000 to 2,500; single-family houses,
2,550/more than 5,000.
Homeowners association fee: $60 monthly
View model: Not yet available.
Sales: Melanie Green-Karol, director of sales and marketing, at 703-596-
9829 or [email protected]