Oakhurst

Oakhurst sits in Cornelius off Sam Furr Road, close enough to I-77 that Huntersville's Birkdale Village and the shops around it are a short trip away. Davidson and Cornelius town centers are both within reach, and Lake Norman's parks are not far either. This is a neighborhood built out in one steady stretch rather than added onto over decades, which gives the streets a consistent look, house to house and block to block. Drive in from Sam Furr Road and you pass into a mix of detached houses and townhomes rather than one housing type on its own.

About 530 lots make up Oakhurst, with the large majority already built on. If you own here, that scale matters: it means your house isn't judged against one or two other sales a year, it's judged against a real, ongoing flow of comparable homes nearby. That works in your favor when you price carefully, and against you if you guess. The neighborhood has enough built history now that appraisers and buyers alike have plenty to compare your house to, decade, size and lot alike.

Oakhurst has about 530 lots in total, and nearly 500 of them carry a house or townhome. That's a real neighborhood-scale inventory, not a pocket of a dozen homes. For an owner, it means your comparable pool isn't thin. When you list, you're one of many homes here, which is good for buyer traffic but also means your pricing and presentation have to hold up against real competition, not just against memory of what a neighbor's house sold for years ago.

The homes here were built mostly in the 2000s, with the neighborhood's median build year landing in 2001 and construction stretching from 1999 up to 2016. A buyer walking through your house is comparing it against other homes from that same construction era, not against something from an older or newer decade. That matters for how a buyer reads finishes, systems and layout. A house updated since its original build year stands out against one that hasn't been touched since it went up in the early 2000s.

Lot sizes here run from empty ground up to 1.79 acres, with a median around 0.19 acres. That's a wide range for one neighborhood, and it explains why two houses on the same street can appraise very differently even with similar square footage. A house on a fifth of an acre and a house on well over an acre are not selling into the same conversation, even if the floor plans look alike on paper. Lot size is doing real work in your valuation, separate from the house itself.

Heated square footage here runs from 1,280 up to 15,994, with a typical home landing around 1,869 square feet. That spread is enormous, and it means a straight price-per-square-foot comparison across the neighborhood can mislead you fast. A smaller, efficient floor plan and a large outlier home are not competing for the same buyer or the same price bracket. Knowing where your square footage falls in that range matters more than knowing the neighborhood median alone.

The mix here splits close to evenly between 268 detached houses and 224 townhomes, with 36 empty lots and a small remainder of other property types rounding it out. That near-even split means when you list a detached house, you're not just competing with other detached houses, you're competing with townhomes drawing the same buyer budget. Knowing which side of that mix your home sits on tells you who else is competing for your buyer's attention and dollars.

24 homes changed hands in Oakhurst over the past year. For a neighborhood with nearly 500 houses and townhomes, that's a steady, ordinary pace rather than a rush or a stall. If your own home sits on the market longer than a neighbor's did last spring, that one sale doesn't mean something is wrong. It means you're watching one result in a small, regular stream, not a race.

The middle sale price over the past year was $342,500. That tells you where the center of the market sits here, but it doesn't tell you what your own house is worth. Your lot size, your square footage, and your build year all move you above or below that middle point, sometimes by a wide margin, especially given how much this neighborhood's homes vary in size.

Sale prices ranged from $255,000 up to $620,000 over the past year. That's a wide spread for one neighborhood, and it lines up with what the housing stock itself looks like here: homes ranging from smaller townhomes up to much larger detached houses on bigger lots. The spread isn't a sign of a confused market. It reflects genuinely different products selling under the same neighborhood name.

The most recent sale closed July 1, 2026, which keeps the comparables here fresh for anyone pricing a home now. Recent, nearby sales carry more weight in a valuation than sales from a year or two back, and Oakhurst's pace means there's a real, current data trail to draw from rather than a stale one.

Oakhurst sits about 1.2 miles as the crow flies from I-77 Exit 25 at Sam Furr Road and NC-73 in Huntersville. That's a short straight-line distance to the interstate, which matters if your daily routine runs north or south along the I-77 corridor. Birkdale Village in Huntersville is about 1.3 miles away the same way, putting shopping and dining close by without being inside a dense commercial strip.

Cornelius Town Hall is about 1.6 miles from Oakhurst as the crow flies, and Davidson Town Hall on Main Street is about 2.7 miles out. Lake Norman itself is reachable too: Ramsey Creek Park is about 2.0 miles away and Jetton Park about 2.2 miles, both straight-line distances to the lake's public access points rather than a long haul across town.

For anyone weighing a move against the wider Charlotte region, Uptown Charlotte sits about 15.8 miles from Oakhurst as the crow flies, and Charlotte Douglas International Airport is about 17.6 miles out the same way. Both are reachable without leaving the Lake Norman side of the region, which is part of what defines living in Cornelius rather than closer into the city itself.

If you're comparing a detached house against a townhome, Oakhurst gives you both inside one neighborhood, roughly split between the two. That matters if you're deciding between wanting your own yard and lot versus a lower-maintenance townhome footprint. The lot sizes here range widely, from small townhome-scale lots up to close to two acres, so there's room to choose based on how much outdoor space you actually want to maintain.

The homes here were built mostly in the early 2000s, which makes Oakhurst a fit if you're looking for a house of that era rather than new construction or something built in the 1990s. If you want a shorter drive to Lake Norman's public parks or you're relocating into the Cornelius area and want a straight-line distance to I-77 under a mile and a half, this location does that work for you.

Square footage here ranges from smaller, more efficient homes up to much larger houses, so this neighborhood can fit a downsizing move into a smaller footprint or a move up into a larger house, depending on which lot and floor plan you target. If you're relocating for a shorter commute toward Huntersville or want easy access to Birkdale Village without living inside it, Oakhurst's location does that work too.

• About 530 lots make up Oakhurst, with nearly 500 built on
• Homes were built mostly in the 2000s, from 1999 to 2016
• Lot sizes range from empty ground up to 1.79 acres
• Heated square footage ranges from 1,280 to 15,994 square feet
• 24 sales in the past year, median price $342,500
• Sale prices ranged from $255,000 to $620,000 in the past year