Sell your land in Waxhaw, NCto a builder who wants to build there.

What sells land in Waxhaw

Buyers want to live in western Union County, so the limit on new homes is rarely demand. It is usually the land itself: whether the parcel can be served by sewer, how much of it is usable after setbacks, streams and floodplain, and what the zoning allows. Two five-acre tracts on the same road can be worth very different amounts if one has a sewer line at the road and the other needs septic on marginal soils.

Waxhaw also has a mix of jurisdictions. Some parcels with a Waxhaw mailing address are inside town limits, some are in the town's extraterritorial jurisdiction, and some are in unincorporated Union County, and a few sit near Marvin, Wesley Chapel or Weddington boundaries. Each has its own zoning and subdivision rules, so the first thing we do is confirm which rules apply to your parcel using UC Atlas.

Sewer, septic and Union County Water

Most public water and sewer around Waxhaw is provided by Union County Water. Two questions decide value: is a sewer line close enough to connect, and is there treatment capacity for new connections. Union County Water publishes monthly figures for how much of each treatment plant's permitted capacity is used or committed on its Union County Water wastewater capacity page, and it answers site specific availability questions by email, as described on its Union County Water developers and builders page.

If sewer is not practical, homes need a septic system. In Union County that starts with an application to Union County Environmental Health septic program. The county schedules a soil and site evaluation, and the owner or applicant must provide a backhoe and operator. If the site is approved, the county issues an Improvement Permit and later a Construction Authorization, which is required before a building permit. We handle that process when it is needed and factor the result into the offer.

What we buy in Waxhaw

• Single building lots, vacant or wooded
• One to fifty acres that could hold a few homes or a small subdivision
• Older houses on big lots, where the land is worth more than the house
• Infill lots near downtown Waxhaw
• Inherited family land, including parcels with several heirs
• Back acreage behind your home, as a recorded split

How we price land in Waxhaw

We use the builder residual method: what new homes on the property would sell for, minus construction, site work, utilities or septic, permits, financing and selling costs, and a builder margin. You see the assumptions in writing. More on how we price land.