Is new home near Charlotte at $100 a square foot the real deal?

    I am trying to contact a real estate agent in Fort Mill, SC, about a golf course home whose listing describes a mini-palace but whose price is less than $300,000.  The model home is to be built for a listed $299,900 which, given the buyers' market of today, could probably be negotiated down by a few dollars.  The listing on the web site also indicates a free 42-inch plasma TV comes with the purchase of the home.  You can view the listing here.
    The home will be built adjacent to the Regent Park Golf Club, which features a semi-private course designed by Ron Garl in 1994.  Fort Mill is just a 12-mile commute to Charlotte, NC, which, despite the loss of Wachovia Bank (merged into Wells Fargo) and the troubles that beset Bank of America, remains a thriving center of commerce in the southeast, second only to Atlanta.
    The two-story brick model is large (nearly 4,000 square feet), with four bedrooms and three baths, a double attached garage and optional third floor.  It is slated to be built this year.
    According to the scorecard on the Regent Park web site, the men's tees play to 6,337, a rating of 70.7 and a slope of 137.  However, other golf related web sites peg the tees at a rating of 70.3 and a more reasonable slope of 130 -- in any case, a nice challenge.  Regent Park has earned a number of plaudits from Golf Digest and other magazines as a "course you can play."  My email to the listing agent has not yet been answered, but I hope to find out in a conversation with him tomorrow if that is a course you could buy, and at such an impressively low price.  I'll report in this space what I learn.

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