Search "55+ communities in Greenville SC" and Del Webb Greenville, Swansgate, and Cascades Verdae all show up in the same results, styled the same way, priced in the same dollar figures. Only some of them involve buying a house. Cascades Verdae, Summit Hills, and Rolling Green Village are continuing care retirement communities — you pay a large entrance fee plus a monthly fee for a contract, not a deed, and the exit math works nothing like a home sale.
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Talk to a Specialist →Neither structure is better in the abstract — a CCRC's entrance fee is effectively prepaying for a future care guarantee most buyers would otherwise have to shop for separately in their 80s, at a much worse bargaining position. But the two are not comparable on price alone, and a buyer who tours Cascades Verdae's cottage homes and Del Webb Greenville's new-construction homes back to back, comparing sticker prices, is comparing a service contract to a real estate purchase.
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Ask directly what type of contract is offered — a "Type A" (extensive/life care) contract typically bundles future care into the monthly fee at little added cost, while a "Type C" (fee-for-service) contract charges market rate for care as needed and carries a lower entrance fee. Ask separately what percentage of the entrance fee is refundable, to whom, and on what timeline. These terms vary by community and by contract vintage — get the specific numbers in writing rather than assuming any two CCRCs work the same way.
For a buyer who wants a straightforward home purchase with full equity and a normal resale process, Del Webb Greenville, Swansgate, Blaize Ridge, and the smaller Spartanburg-area communities are the ones to focus on. For a buyer who specifically wants a future care guarantee bundled into where they live now, the CCRC option is worth serious consideration — just not at the same time you're comparing purchase prices, because the numbers aren't measuring the same thing.
The honest way to shop this market: sort the list into "buy" and "CCRC contract" before you compare a single price tag, and treat Del Webb Greenville's newness as its own separate factor to weigh — not a discount on the research the older, established communities have already earned.
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