Southshore Bay

The smallest homes in Southshore Bay are the ones that make it unusual. Three plans, none with a garage, all on one level, and all priced in a range you don't see within two miles of the ocean anymore.

• Hannah
• Perry
• Lewis

The Hannah is the one to understand first: about 813 square feet, two bedrooms, two baths. That is a genuinely small house. For the right buyer — a single professional, a couple who wants a beach base without a beach-house mortgage, a retiree who is done heating rooms nobody sleeps in — it's exactly right. For a family of four, it isn't, and nobody should talk you into pretending otherwise.

The Lewis is the sleeper of the group: three bedrooms and roughly 1,256 square feet with no garage, which means more living space for less money than the garage plans of the same size. If you have a shed's worth of beach gear, plan for it now.

Hannah

~813 sq ft · 2 bd / 2 ba · no garage

Perry

~1,045 sq ft · 2 bd / 2 ba · no garage

Lewis

~1,256 sq ft · 3 bd / 2 ba · no garage

Stories

One level

Builder pricing

From the mid $260s (Oct 2026)

Built for

Beach base, first home, downsizing

Worth knowing

Storage is the trade-off

Add a one-car garage and you're in the plans most buyers end up choosing here. Three bedrooms, two baths, a covered porch, and room to park one car and the bikes.

• Greenbriar
• Devon

The Greenbriar is about 1,151 square feet with an open great room, kitchen and dining across the middle, the primary suite on one side and the two secondary bedrooms sharing a hall bath. The Devon adds roughly 130 square feet to the same idea. Some elevations wear board-and-batten with dark shutters; others go lap siding in a coastal color.

When the community launched, the lineup also included a four-bedroom plan, the Cameron, at about 1,498 square feet. It isn't on the builder's current plan list. If you need a fourth bedroom, ask me before you assume it's still available.

Greenbriar

~1,151 sq ft · 3 bd / 2 ba · 1-car

Devon

~1,281 sq ft · 3 bd / 2 ba · 1-car

Stories

One level

Porch

Covered front porch, rear patio

Included

Smart-home package, granite, stainless

Launch plan no longer listed

Cameron, 4 bd, ~1,498 sq ft

The Downing is the only current plan with a two-car garage, and it shows. Walk down Tasso Drive and the wide white garage doors with carriage hardware are the first thing you notice on the street — in aqua, in lemon, in white.

Inside it's about 1,257 square feet: three bedrooms, two baths, an open living area and a laundry room. That's the same livable space as the no-garage Lewis — you're paying for the garage, not the house. For a lot of buyers that's exactly the right trade. A two-car garage at the beach is a golf cart, a kayak, a beach wagon and a car, and it's the difference between a tidy house and a crowded one.

Downing

~1,257 sq ft · 3 bd / 2 ba

Garage

2-car attached

Stories

One level

Builder pricing

Low-to-mid $290s on listed homes

The pitch

Room for the beach gear

Worth knowing

Same living space as the Lewis

With forty-nine homesites, the new-construction window here is short. Once D.R. Horton sells the last one, Southshore Bay becomes a resale-only neighborhood — and because every house is one level and every house came from the same builder in the same two years, the resales will be about as easy to compare as any neighborhood on this coast.

That's good for you on both ends. When you buy, there's no guessing what a Downing is worth; there will be a sale two doors down. When you sell, you won't be fighting a builder with a sales office down the street offering incentives on the house next to yours — because the builder will be gone.

What separates one resale from another here will be the small things: which homesites back to the open space, which face the morning sun, who added a screened porch or a fenced yard, and who kept up the exterior paint in the salt air. I check before you tour, not after.