Fox Hill Residences in Bethesda is there for the day when you are just done with shoveling snow or cutting the grass. Suddenly, retirement means more than not going to an office! It means simplifying your life so you don’t have to wait for repairmen and waste your weekends on a Honey Do List! Fox Hill Residences is perfect when you want to downsize your to do list but not your lifestyle. This is a great choice for you if you want a 55+ community and you don’t want to leave Bethesda. It’s even inside the Beltway.
Why Choose the Fox Hill Residences in Bethesda?
Located just off River Road at 8300 Burdette Road, the Fox Hill Residences in Bethesda offer easy access to downtown Bethesda and Chevy Chase, Rockville and Potomac and the rest of the metro area by way of I-270 and the Beltway. The alpine style buildings that make up Fox Hill Residences are set in 16 acres of greenery, providing a campus like feeling that is perfect for taking walks with a friend or your favorite dog.
Why should you consider the Fox Hill Residences in Bethesda? If you have lived in the DC metro area for many years and you are now ready to downsize, you may be unsure where to go when you live in Bethesda or Northwest Washington. While Leisure World is a great community, it seems so far away from your life. How would you get to the Kennnedy Center or your club if you moved to Leisure World? Downsizing shouldn’t mean a complete disruption of your life! Fox Hill is clearly the answer for people who are used to a Bethesda lifestyle – lunch at Paul, shopping in Friendship Heights, Shakespeare at the Folger!
Amenities
Fox Hill residences come with an amazing list of amenities like a full service spa, a pool, a virtual
golf range, and wine storage facilities. Dining options at Fox Hill range from casual to chef prepared elegant dinners! This sounds like the life we all want to live in retirement!
With no need to spend your weekends on yard work, you can choose how you exercise! Enjoy improving your golf game at the outdoor putting green or the driving range simulator, or work out in the instructor-led Zumba class with your friends. Hit the treadmill for a run or find out how to get rid of those pesky pounds that you might gain from all the good food here by working out with the charming gym instructors These are the services and amenities that define luxury condo living in Bethesda.
What’s Near Fox Hill
The Foxhall Residences are very close to the Westfield Montgomery Mall and Cabin John Park with all that is offered there. Whether you want to shop, go to the movies, eat out, or watch a baseball game at the Shirley Povitch field, ride a miniature train with your grandchildren, or test out your iceskates at the rink, you can find something to do within five minutes of your new home!
SHOPPING ANYONE?
Shopping is easy with Montgomery Mall right outside your door. Whether it is Bobby’s Burger Palace or Jamaican Mi Crazy, there are lots of dining options at Montgomery Mall. Shopping options range from White House, Black Market to Coach and Nordstrom’s, the Apple Store and more! Don’t forget that Balducci’s is just a mile or two away at the Wildwood shopping center on Old Georgetown with all of its great prepared foods and fantastic vegetables, meats and wine selection. The Wildwood shopping center also has restaurants like Le Pain Quotidien, Piccoli Piatti Pizzeria and great shops like South Moon Under.
Floor Plans
The Fox Hill Residences were built in 2008 to provide an option to buyers looking to downsize their home maintenance responsibilities but not necessarily the size of their homes or their lifestyle. The condos here are gracious and upscale. Fireplaces, balconies and high end kitchens are the norm.
Fox Hill Residences offer you 240 condominiums with a choice of one, two or three bedroom floor plans with optional dens and balconies. The three-bedroom floor plans are very large with more than 1,900 square feet. If you are planning on downsizing, you might want to look at the two different one bedroom floorplans which offer either 841 or 999 square feet of space.
What’s for Sale? What Has Sold at Fox Hill Residences in Bethesda
There are only 240 units at Fox Hill Residences in Bethesda so there may not be any homes for
sale there at any particular time. To see if there are any homes for sale now, just click here.
At the end of 2021, a 1215 square foot 2 bedroom 2 bath unit sold for $745,000. Another 2 bedroom 2 bath unit sold for $650,000 in July 2021.
Condo Fee
The condo fee at Fox Hill is high – over $5000 a month for a two bedroom with den and over $4000 for a two bedroom two bath. However, the fee includes a credit toward dining and amentities, housekeeping, flat laundry, utilities, concierge and security, activities,and transportation in addition to
exterior maintenance, snow removal, and the master insurance policy. In addition, there is an additional condo fee charge for a second person in the condo.
The condo fee covers air conditioning and heat, gas, electricity, water and sewer, trash, alarm system, common area and lawn maintenance, the health club, exercise room, jogging trails, pool, recreation facility, sauna, reserve funds, management, security gate, snow removal, the art studio, bar/lounge, beauty salon, concierge, dining rooms, virtual golf, wine storage, library, party room, five restaurants and more.
Health Care
It is easy to overlook the extras at Fox Hill that come from its management affiliation with Sun Rise, one of the nation’s largest providers of retirement living. Fox Hill also offers assisted living and memory care facilities whenever that becomes necessary. This community is very similar to Maplewood, but offers even more amenities for the people who live there.
