These are the highest-priced home sales reported in the Asheville, North Carolina metro area for the week ending October 4, 2026, and together they came to a combined $17.233 million. Three of the five were in Arden, with one each in Asheville and Zirconia. Four were in Buncombe County and one in Henderson County, and prices ran from $2,650,000 at No. 5 to $5,350,000 at the top.
No. 1 — $5,350,000 · 222 Secluded Hills Ln, Arden, North Carolina
The top sale of the week was a brand-new home on a ridge in The Cliffs At Walnut Cove, the gated club community in Arden, and it sold for $5,350,000. Completed in 2025, the modern transitional home is finished in stucco and stone, sits on 1.40 acres and has long-range mountain views in every season. The listing says the view runs from the downtown Asheville skyline out to the Blue Ridge.
Gable windows rise over the open great room, where a stone fireplace stands and white-oak beams cross overhead. Wide planks of European oak run to a wall of glass doors, which open to a large covered veranda with its own fireplace and a built-in grill. The kitchen has cabinetry that reaches the ceiling, a big island with seating and a walk-in pantry.
The primary suite is on the main level and opens to a private terrace. It has two walk-in closets, its own laundry and a bath with a freestanding soaking tub. Upstairs, a guest suite and an office or bonus room are in separate wings, joined by a loft that looks down on the great room. A floating staircase and an elevator lead to the finished lower level, which has a bonus room with a wet bar and two more guest suites, each with its own bath. In all, the home has four bedrooms and seven bathrooms, four full and three half, in 6,093 square feet, plus a three-car garage with a workshop area.
Walls of native stone step down the hillside, and the approach has a paver motor court and copper accents at the entry. Club membership in The Cliffs brings Jack Nicklaus golf, a wellness center, a tavern and round-the-clock gated security. The property last sold for $475,000 in 2021, before the current home was built.
Josh Smith of Walnut Cove Realty/Allen Tate/Beverly-Hanks was the listing agent, and Jeff Baker of Walnut Cove Realty/Allen Tate/Beverly-Hanks represented the buyer. Smith also listed the No. 3 sale on this list, in the same community.
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No. 2 — $3,700,000 · 12 Sunset Smt, Asheville, North Carolina
The oldest home in this Top 5 is on Sunset Mountain in Asheville, and it sold for $3,700,000. It dates to 1968 and was completely rebuilt in 2021 as a contemporary modern home in stucco, with broad expanses of glass meant to take in year-round views of the mountains, the city and a golf course.
The open floor plan runs from the kitchen, with its island and walk-in pantry, to the living and dining areas, which are centered on a gas fireplace. Floors are marble, tile and laminate. The home also has a primary suite and a private office, and a rooftop terrace looks out on the sunsets.
The lower level has a family room, a recreation room, a wet bar and two guest suites, and there is covered outdoor space ringed by landscaped gardens and stone terraces. The home has three bedrooms and four bathrooms, three full and one half, in 4,930 square feet, along with a two-car garage. Its 0.43-acre lot is the smallest of the five. The property last sold for $350,000 in 2015.
Laura Livaudais and Ellen McGuire, both of Ivester Jackson Blackstream, were the listing agents, and Becky Call of RE/MAX Results represented the buyer.
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No. 3 — $2,800,000 · 645 Walnut Valley Pkwy, Arden, North Carolina
The newest home of the five was completed this year in The Cliffs At Walnut Cove in Arden and sold for $2,800,000. It is a single-story home of 4,093 square feet on 0.93 acres, finished outside in stone and hardboard siding, and all three of its bedrooms are on the main level. It has four bathrooms, three full and one half, and a side-facing two-car garage.
The front of the home faces east and takes the morning sun. Inside, the great room has a high ceiling and a gas fireplace, and it opens to a home office, the kitchen, a dining room and a screened porch. The primary suite has its own door to that screened porch and a tiled bath with a large walk-in shower, and the guest quarters have a private bath. Floors are wood and tile, and there is an outdoor kitchen for grilling.
The home is near a private community park. A few minutes away is the community’s 18,000-square-foot wellness center, with an indoor lap pool, an outdoor pool, a hot tub and tennis courts. The Cliffs At Walnut Cove also has more than six miles of private trails and a Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course.
The same agent was on both sides of the sale: Josh Smith of Walnut Cove Realty/Allen Tate/Beverly-Hanks listed the home and represented the buyer. It was the second home Smith listed in this Top 5, after the No. 1 sale.
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No. 4 — $2,733,000 · 383 Eagle Ridge Rd, Zirconia, North Carolina
In Pinnacle Falls, a gated community in Zirconia, a timber-frame home known as Eagle Ridge Lodge sold for $2,733,000. It sits on 7.39 acres of private, wooded, sloping land with long-range mountain views, the largest lot in this Top 5, and the home is convenient to Flat Rock and Hendersonville. The property last sold for $308,000 in 2008, before the current home was built. Morgan-Keefe custom built the post-and-beam home in 2009, in stone and wood.
At 8,399 square feet, it is also the largest home of the five, with five bedrooms and eight bathrooms, six full and two half. The chef’s kitchen has Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances and a full scullery. There is a temperature-controlled wine cellar, an elevator, an indoor hot tub and three laundry areas, and fireplaces warm the great room, the den and the recreation room. Two geothermal systems serve six climate zones, and a generator backs up the whole home.
Outdoors, the home has an outdoor kitchen, a fire pit and a gazebo, and the garage has room for two cars plus a separate space for a golf cart. Pinnacle Falls has a clubhouse and a pool.
The home sold $238,000 above its asking price of $2.495 million. Alec Cantley of Premier Sothebyβs International Realty was the listing agent, and Gina Nicholson of Howard Hanna Beverly-Hanks represented the buyer.
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No. 5 — $2,650,000 · 1455 Flint Rock Trl, Arden, North Carolina
A stone facade with dark accents and an arched entry fronts this transitional home in The Cliffs At Walnut Cove in Arden, which sold for $2,650,000. Built in 2013 on 0.95 acres, the property borders the Pisgah National Forest.
A vaulted foyer with an open staircase leads into the living room, where a dry-stack stone fireplace runs from floor to ceiling and a wall of windows looks out into the forest canopy. The kitchen pairs deep blue cabinetry with textured tile that climbs to the ceiling, and it has a central island. Nearby is a screened porch with a vaulted, wood-beamed ceiling and its own stone fireplace. The primary suite is on the main level, with two walk-in closets and a bath with a freestanding soaking tub. An elevator goes down to the lower level, which has a family room that opens outside and three more bedrooms, two of them with their own baths.
The home has four bedrooms and five bathrooms, four full and one half, in 3,881 square feet. The grounds have several decks, terraced gardens, a fenced backyard and a stone fire pit. The property last sold for $1.55 million in 2021.
Marcella Dean of Walnut Cove Realty/Allen Tate/Beverly-Hanks was the listing agent, and Jason Jacques of BluAxis Realty represented the buyer. It was the third sale in this Top 5 listed by Walnut Cove Realty/Allen Tate/Beverly-Hanks, which also had the listings at No. 1 and No. 3.
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RealtyWire selected these transactions from publicly reported residential sales identified for the calendar week ending Sunday, October 4, 2026. The report may exclude private, off-market, delayed or nondisclosed transactions. Prices, property details and professional representation are reported as available at publication and may be updated following confirmation from transaction participants.
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