Brookwood in Burlington, NC

Three of the four condo listings showed dues of $300 a month, and the fourth listed $258. What the dues include varies by unit on the listing sheets.

• Every listing with details: building insurance, grounds maintenance and trash.
• Roslyn Drive units: water on both, sewer on one, and gas and pest control on a unit with radiant heat.
• One West Front Street unit: structural maintenance in place of utilities.

At $300 a month, the dues come to $3,600 a year. That is more than three times the roughly $1,058 city and county tax bill on a $100,000 assessed value at the FY2026-27 combined rate of $1.0576 per $100. I usually tell buyers to treat dues as the highest monthly cost after the mortgage, ahead of taxes and insurance on the unit.

As of October 1, 2026, the HUD condominium search listed a project named Brookwood Gardens at 1600 W. Front Street as approved, with the approval running to May 17, 2027. Ask your lender to confirm that the approval covers the exact unit address before you count on FHA financing.

Two of the current condo listings mention a tenant in place or rental potential. If you plan to live in the unit, ask for the leasing rules in the declaration and when any lease that conveys with the sale ends.

The listings show how much condition can vary within the same neighborhood.

• Cooling: several condos still use window units. One refreshed Roslyn Drive unit has two ductless mini-splits and a new breaker panel.
• Heat: some units list natural gas radiant heat, which is why gas shows up in their dues.
• Houses: a 1937 brick home on Hawthorne Lane listed at $120,000 is being sold as-is. A 1950 house on the same street is listed at $309,000 after a remodel that replaced the plumbing, electrical, HVAC and floor joists.

For a remodeled house like that, ask for the permits and the contractor's invoices. On an as-is house, I would budget for the inspection to find more than the photos show and line up contractor quotes during due diligence.

Current Brookwood listings are assigned to Hillcrest Elementary, Turrentine Middle and Walter M. Williams High in the Alamance-Burlington School System. Neither Hillcrest nor Turrentine was among the schools whose boundaries changed in the March 2026 redraw, but you can check any address on the district's assignment maps. For a walk, the Arboretum at Willowbrook Park is close by and open sunrise to sunset with free admission.

Our Burlington condos search had 19 listings on October 1, 2026, with a median list price of $187,762. Every Brookwood unit asked less than $136,000, making it one of the city's lower-priced places to own a condo. The trade-off is a 1950 building with smaller floor plans, and dues that sometimes cover utilities a newer complex would leave to you. Compare the total monthly cost, not just the list price.

Once you pick a unit, we can request the association budget, reserve balance, and leasing rules so the monthly number is clear early.