11626 Brief Road · Mint Hill, NC ← The property
For Builders & Developers

One gate. 8.84 acres.
Room for a few great houses.

8.84 contiguous acres behind a single controlled entrance, with underground power already run to the back of the property.

$1,200,000
Offered
8.84
Acres, deeded
4
Recorded parcels
1
Point of entry
The Concept

One drive, held to the boundary

A straight spine from the entrance to a turnaround at the rear, with the homesites on one frontage — so nothing is spent on land that only serves the road. Solid where the drive is built today; dashed for the extension a buyer clears and finishes.

Illustrative site plan showing eight homesites served by a single straight drive from one entrance on Brief Road, with a turnaround at the rear
Illustrative only — not an approved plan · no dimensions shown

Site count, boundaries and areas are conceptual and subject to survey, soil evaluation and jurisdictional approval in Mecklenburg and Union counties. Buyer to verify all details independently.

The Arithmetic

What the land costs per homesite

The offered price is a record for a house on acreage here. Divided across homesites, it is something else entirely.

HomesitesLand basis, eachApproximate site size
6$200,000Comfortably over an acre
7$171,400About an acre
8$150,000Close to an acre

Basis is the offered price divided by site count; it excludes road, utility, entitlement and carrying costs. For context, comparable Mint Hill homesites of roughly an acre have been offered from $275,000, in communities where homes begin around $1.5M. Site yield is unverified until soil evaluation.

Why It Plans

The hard parts are already answered

Power is at the back

Duke ran underground service the length of the property to a transformer near the rear — installed for this land, not for a neighbour. Proving that deep acreage is serviceable is normally the long pole; here it is standing.

The line is already set

The drive is built from Brief Road to about a third of the way into the second Mecklenburg parcel; the easement and the underground electric run the same alignment. Extending to the rear means clearing and finishing along a corridor that already exists — not negotiating a second path across the land.

A single controlled entry

Every acre reaches pavement through one point on Brief Road. For an enclave that is not a limitation — it is the design most communities have to manufacture.

Water and wastewater on site

The residence runs on a private well and a septic tank with pump — a working water and wastewater setup already serving the property. New homesites carry their own soil evaluation, but the land is not starting from nothing.

Assembled once, offered once

Four parcels across two counties, held by one family — the Union tracts bought separately in 1999, the Mecklenburg parcels transferred within the family in 2017. Contiguous acreage this close to I-485 does not reassemble.

Two Ways To Take It

A builder, or a few households

The builder

An enclave of estate homes

Six to eight homesites behind one gate, in a town where new construction reaches into the millions. The existing residence works as a site office and model through buildout at no carrying cost.

The group

Three or four households, together

Roughly two acres each behind a shared entrance — for less than a single finished homesite costs nearby. One buyer can live in the existing home during construction, or it can be rented against the carry.

Due Diligence

Verify everything

Both required North Carolina disclosures download straight from this page, and are attached to the MLS listing. Everything else is public record or your own investigation — which is how a parcel like this should be bought.

Recorded parcel & tax data — both counties
Public record
Mecklenburg deeds — Register of Deeds search
Book 32077 · Pg 566
Union County deeds — Register of Deeds
Bk 1216/184 · Bk 1336/384
Plats & survey
Buyer to obtain
Soil evaluation & septic capacity
Buyer to investigate
Zoning, subdivision & road standards — Mint Hill and Union
Buyer to confirm
Access, easements & utility corridors
Buyer to confirm
Residential Property & Owners’ Association Disclosure — RPOADS
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Mineral, Oil & Gas Rights Disclosure — MOG
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Mecklenburg records are free and public. Union County's online index requires a registered account; records are otherwise available from the Register of Deeds, 500 N Main St, Monroe NC 28112. All acreage subject to survey.

Inquire

Walk it with a tape and a plan

Bring your land planner. The corners are marked and the drive runs the whole way back.

917 · 330 · 0850
Eridania M. Bonilla, REALTOR® · Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Paracle
ebonilla@paraclerealty.com

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