Godwin Area Homes - Henrico, Richmond Virginia Real Estate

Welcome to GodwinAreaHomes.com

The Godwin High School District is one of the most sought after places in the Richmond area to live. You will find award winning communities, nationally recognized schools, spectacular recreation, world class shopping, incredible dining, and a prosperous business climate. The Godwin Area is truly a place to live, work and play. We hope you find our website a helpful and resourceful guide for your home search!

History
You will find an incredible variety of neighborhoods and communities in the Godwin Area. The initial, significant growth of the area started in the 1970’s with the development of the Canterbury and Raintree neighborhoods and the Gayton Road corridor. This growth led to the construction of Godwin High School in 1980. The Godwin area continued its significant growth in the 1980’s and 1990’s with neighborhoods such as The Colonies, Lake Lorraine and Pine Run. Over the past decade, scores of new developments have been built in the Godwin Area. The community has a wonderful balance of homes including single family homes, town homes and condominiums. The Godwin Area is a tasteful blend of neighborhoods and architecture styles complimented by lakes, streams and untouched wooded landscapes offers an extraordinary lifestyle in Richmond’s West End.

Current Home Market
The real estate market remains strong in the Godwin Area and consistently out performs national averages and even other areas in Richmond. While inventories vary during the course of the year, there is a nice mix of new construction and re-sales on the market today. Even as our Real Estate market continues to shift, buying a home in the Godwin Area continues to be a very smart investment. Just click on a price range of choice to the left and request information about current listings plus view the sales price of recently sold homes. You may also request more detailed information about any home. If you are not sure which neighborhood is right for you or are unfamiliar with the area, just call or email us, we would be glad to help you with your home search!

Schools
Mills E. Godwin High School is located in The West End of Henrico County in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. The school is operated by Henrico County Public Schools and was named in honor of the late, Honorable Mills E. Godwin Jr., a two term Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. In 1980 Godwin High opened its doors to students and is the counties second newest high school. There are approximately 1900 students enrolled at Godwin, their mascot is the Eagle and their sports team compete in the Virginia High School League’s Colonial District in the Central Region at the AAA level, the highest in Virginia. There are 7 elementary and 3 middle feeder schools into Godwin High School. Our schools attract the finest educators, boast some of the highest test scores in the region and provide a wonderful environment for our youth. Former Godwin High neighborhoods of Wellesley, FoxHall, Gayton Station, Barrington, Barrington West, and Church Run now feed into Deep Run High School and information on real estate in those areas can be found at www.DeepRunAreaHomes.com.

Happy Anniversary Tuckahoe Little League!
In 2008 the Tuckahoe Little League, our community youth baseball club, celebrates its 50th anniversary. Founded in 1958, Tuckahoe Little League provides over 1,700 area boys and girls with a quality baseball and softball program. A program dedicated to promoting the ideals of good sportsmanship, team work, commitment, honesty and courage. With 12 fields, it is one of the largest youth baseball and softball facilities in Virginia. Tuckahoe Little League was a Little League World Series finalist in 1968, 1976 & 1993, a Junior League World Series finalist in 1981 and a Senior League World Series finalist in 1971 & 1976.

Recreation
In addition to baseball, recreational amenities, activities and programs are abundant here. There are swim and tennis clubs in a number of neighborhoods, community and county parks, neighborhood playgrounds, basketball and volleyball courts and countless walking trails. The Tuckahoe YMCA on Patterson Ave. offers the community a variety of fitness and health activities. The Richmond Strikers Youth Soccer Association and Striker Park, one of the nation’s finest youth soccer facilities is just a few minutes off Broad Street and provides our kids with both recreational and travel programs. If golf is your game there are a number of area courses and clubs to choose from. Hunting Hawk and Sycamore Creek are public courses close by and Richmond Country Club, Hermitage Country Club, The Dominion Club and The Federal Club are the areas private country clubs.

Shopping, Dining, Business
In the Fall of 2003 our area celebrated the opening of Short Pump Town Center, one of the finest shopping destinations in the region. Stores such as Nordstrom’s, Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel and Franco’s plus restaurants like The Cheesecake Factory, Copper Grill and Firebirds are now just minutes away. All around the Town Center scores of other shops, restaurants and businesses have opened in the last few years and the development continues along the Godwin Area’s Broad St. corridor with the development of West Broad Village. The Broad St, Pump Rd. and Lauderdale Rd. corridors of the Godwin area gives the community convenience with grocery stores, gas stations, pharmacies, medical offices, neighborhood restaurants, dry cleaners and other shops. The Godwin area is also convenient to many corporate developments including West Creek, home to Capital One and Car-Max and the 800 acre Innsbrook Corporate Park, home to 500+ companies and more than 20,000 professionals.