The professionals at Chateau Elan Realty boast over fifty collective years of experience. Yet we're not just selling houses. We're promoting a way of life. Where else can you go to water aerobics in the morning, then play eighteen holes of championship golf, recover with a Swedish Massage, follow that with lunch at one of eight restaurants, spend the afternoon playing tennis, volleyball, basketball, or horseshoes at our 12,000 square foot Sports Club, and finally, raise a pint at Paddy's Irish Pub before heading out for a romantic evening at the intimate Legends Restuarant. And that was just Tuesday!

This 3,500-acre gated Atlanta Golf Community is designed for approximately 2,000 homes. The community surrounds the 63 holes of Championship Golf at Château Élan. Custom Georgia luxury homes range from $400,000 to several million.

Contact Chateau Elan Sales Office at (770) 307-4031 or
E-mail to elanrealty@chateauelan.net

A member's only club, the Legends offers exclusivity, attentive services, and an unmatched array of recreational and social facilities. Resident members enjoy challenging and fulfilling golf experiences combined with stunning vistas and superior course conditioning at Legends, the masterpiece crafted by three great champions, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead and Kathy Whitworth.The Legends is the epicenter for social events, casual, and serious dining. The Clubhouse chefs develop creative menus, and the cuisine is beautifully prepared and served. Members are privy to all the luxurious resort amenities at Chateau Élan including its eight distinctive restaurants, plus many “members only” specials throughout the year. Our new Members Sports Club with over 12,000 feet of basketball, aerobics, fitness gym, sauna, steamrooms, and junior Olympic sized swimming pool puts us in a league of our own.

Contact Mike Bishop VP of Legends at Chateau Elan and Private Memberships at 770-932-8653 or mbishop@chateauelan.net for membership Information.

Great Golf Events Grow Here!

Choose The Legends to be your destination for your next Corporate or Charity golf event. With over 60 years combined experience we can make your event second to none. A world class golf event needs a world class course and team. Contact us to see the difference excellence and experience can make for your event at The Legends.

• Our staff has more than 30 years of specialty golf outing experience.
• We know how to give your client or sponsor the outing experience that will help you retain their business or secure those much needed sponsorship dollars.
• A true private club atmosphere experience and world championship golf course with the exclusivity to attract more participants.
• Your clients will play a course that hosted the Sarazen World Open Championship from 1994 – 1998, with names such as Nicklaus, Els, Cabrera, Jimenez, Janzen, Westwood, Harrington, Nobilo, Goosen, Crenshaw, Stewart, Calcavecchia, Couples, Price, Love III, Daly & Duval competing over those years.
  
• Utilize our extensive knowledge and experience to make your outing a success for years to come.
  

Contact Sean Cain our PGA Head Golf Professional @ 770-932-8653 or scain@chateauelan.net



Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tom F. Collins, Jr. and I’ve recently joined the leadership staff at Chateau Elan as the Broker for Real Estate Sales.  Many of you may know me already as I’ve sold homes in nearby luxury golf communities for the past 17 years.  For those who do not, I would like to personally invite you to stop by the sales office sometime and chat for a few. I would like to get to know each of you personally and be a contact for your future real estate needs within Chateau Elan. I intend to provide a few words from the real estate corner once a month to try to keep all who receive this newsletter up to date on the happenings in the real estate world around us.

I’m also pleased to announce the addition of Lori Cable to our on-site sales team.  Many of you have likely met Lori as well as she has focused her real estate career in luxury neighborhood sales in Gwinnett County for the last 20 years. She is the best in the business and I encourage you all to come and meet her at your convenience.  Lori and I will be focusing exclusively on re-sale listings and sales going into the next few years. We are currently working with a good number of buyers and if your home is on the market, we will likely be coming through at some point to show it!

Current Market conditions are still tough but rapidly improving. There were 46 home sold or contracted within Chateau Elan during the first six months of 2010. Certainly these were led by foreclosure sales and short Sales, and my heart goes out to anyone whose lives were affected by the current economic environment. While there were  homes sold at significant discounts,  we started to see a few sales that would indicate prices trending upward. I’ve predicted this for years as deep discounts will only be seen in a finite number of sales (certainly a larger number than anyone predicted going into this mess), but those with the ability to hold on WILL see the deep discounts absorbed and market conditions stabilize. Don’t misunderstand, there has been a correction in values, and we must all recognize this. Going forward will be challenging as appraisers will have to work harder and dig deeper to justify rising prices.

There is much chatter in the national news about a “double-dip” and a “second wave” of foreclosures. While I won’t completely disregard these predictions, I cannot believe that the effects of a “second wave” will be nearly as devastating as the first. My reasoning stands on the fact that while more individuals may be forced to make difficult decisions, there will never be the sheer volume of homes pumped into the market as the first wave brought. This is due to the fact that the building community has given back all that it will to the banks (certainly within Chateau Elan). One or two at a time will be absorbed quickly as people are out in force now scouring the market for the “deal of the century”. Investor groups have been formed and, in many cases, deeply discounted foreclosures are purchased at the courthouse steps and are never “listed” to the general public.

The bottom line is this; the world is turning again, and it’s getting better every day! Homeowners and banks are starting to hold closer to their asking prices as they see the competition around them lessening and buyers returning to the market.  I’ll be happy to sit with any of you and show you the “tea-leaves” that bring me to this conclusion if you’d like to stop by for deeper discussions. Please know that my door is always open to you as we focus almost exclusively on re-sale values recovering within Chateau Elan!!


Tom F. Collins, Jr.
 

In January of this year, major changes came to Chateau Elan Realty!!! Tom Collins has joined the leadership staff at Chateau Elan as the Broker of Real Estate Sales and brings with him a world of experience and a whole new attitude towards values at Chateau Elan. Tom pioneered and led the sales effort at Hamilton Mill from 1994 – 2004 and joins us directly from The Georgia Club. Luxury homes in Luxury communities are his specialty! He is a well known commodity in the Gwinnett County agent community and to date has been celebrated as a welcome new face in the world of Chateau Elan Real Estate. Please join us by welcoming Tom to our midst by stopping by the sales office and introducing yourself. He loves stories from the past and vows to bring a bright future to re-sale and new home sales within our community.

In May, Lori Cable joined Tom at Chateau Elan Realty as a partner in real estate sales. Lori has been involved in on-site real estate efforts since 1993, and is one of the most highly decorated on-site sales professionals in Atlanta!! She and Tom worked together in the past at Hamilton Mill and are now re-united to form a truly impressive professional staff to service your real estate needs within Chateau Elan. Lori has pioneered neighborhoods such as Lansdowne, Lansfaire, Morning View, and Trilogy Park. Her history and reputation within the Gwinnett County real estate community is second to none! Please make the time to get to know both of these professionals who have joined our midst with one goal in mind: to lead the recovery of values within Chateau Elan!!!

While we sincerely hope that each and every one of you sees Chateau Elan as your hometown for life, we also understand that the winds of life sometimes create the need to buy or sell real estate. We want to be the first name that you think of when that time comes along for you! Chateau Elan Realty focuses its efforts on only one thing; Home sales within Chateau Elan! We see over 20 new buyers every month and take them nowhere else!! We sell only your properties!! Can any other real estate office make the same claim? But don’t take our word for it, Chateau Elan Realty has always lead sales within Chateau Elan when it comes to brining buyers to the table. The strong presence of an on-site real estate operation is vital to long term values in any master planned community, Tom Collins and Lori Cable are ready and able to be here when you need us! 

 

 Chateau Elan Swim Team Champs Again!

 

 

As he read over the final team standings from the Gwinnett County Swim League championship meet, Rick Creed got confirmation of what he saw play out over two days of competition at Georgia Tech. 

The Chateau Elan coach knew his North Division was loaded and those powerful teams put on quite a display at the two-day meet, claiming seven of the top eight positions. And when the swimming finished up Sunday evening, Creed’s Wahoos finished on top by a margin of less than 100 points over the runner-up Thunderbolts. 

Those two teams were both part of a regular-season division that featured several other top finishers at the county meet, including third-place Daniel Park, fourth-place Hamilton Mill and fifth-place Lansmoore. Morning View (seventh) and Apalachee (eighth) also are from the North Division — a stranglehold at the top that was broken up only by sixth-place Flowers Crossing, a South Central Division team. 

“I think it really helps that our division is so competitive, it’s so tough,” said Creed, whose team won its second straight county title. “It not only helps them qualify for the county meet because our meets are so competitive every week during the regular season, but it also prepares them for the competition they’re going to see at county.” 

What they got at county was a good battle that resulted in one of the tighter team finishes in recent years. 

Creed, co-head coach of Chateau Elan with his wife Heidi, expected a narrow margin after losing so many swimmers off last year’s county championship team. Some were too old for the 18-and-under league, while others took this summer off from GCSL to focus on year-round club swimming. 

But the Wahoos still had plenty of depth that led to a strong showing in relays and produced enough points to hold off the hard-charging Thunderbolts, who surged back from an early deficit. 

Chateau Elan’s 15- to 18-year-old foursome of Jared Coury, Parker Schwab, Kevin Doran and Christopher Powell won relay county titles in the 200 freestyle and medley, while two Wahoo girls relays also won championships. 

Meredith Roper (also co-county champ in the 25 free), Hannah Yike, Megan Smith and Emily Donnelly placed first in the 9- and 10-year-old girls 100 free relay and the foursome of Kara Powell, Corinne Dalley, Stephanie Murillo and Kelsey Bouwman was first in the 11- and 12-year-old 200 medley relay. 

“We lost some big scores (from last year’s champions) but the kids at the county meet all stepped up and swam very well,” said Creed, whose is assisted by Maggie Shay, Jared Coury, Savannah Miller and Seth Engleman. “The key to our win was the consistency of our relays. All the relays swam well. 

“So many kids contributed, even some kids we didn’t expect to contribute stepped up and scored. It’s hard to single out kids because we had so many score.” 

The relatively new Chateau Elan program scored just enough to beat one of the county’s oldest summer league teams, the Thunderbolts. They trimmed Chateau Elan’s lead down to 25 points, but they never found enough points to surge ahead. 

The performance was still strong for the Thunderbolts, who have five championships and seven runner-up finishes since 1996. They have finished outside the top three only once (a fourth place finish) during that span. 

“We swam out of our heads, we swam great,” Thunderbolts head coach Jim Reason said. “It’s tough when you throw everything but the kitchen sink at (Chateau Elan) and you still finish second. That hurts, but I’m so proud of my kids and so proud of my coaches. They did a phenomenal job all year.” 

Reason’s team had three swimmers sweep first in their events, including Luke Upchurch in the 15- to 18-year-old division in the 50 backstroke, 100 individual medley and 100 free. Evan McInerny (7- and 8-year-old 50 free, 25 breaststroke, 25 butterfly) and Haley McInerny (11- and 12-year-old 50 back, 200 IM, 50 fly) also had three county titles apiece. 

The Thunderbolts’ Ryan MacKinnon won the 7- and 8-year-old 25 back, in addition to joining Evan McInerny, Austin Turner and Israel Pendleton on a first-place 8-and-under 100 medley relay. The runner-up team also got a county title in the 13- and 14-year-old 200 free and medley relays from the group of Joseph Portillo, Chase Adams, Kent Yang and Arturo Camacho.