Colonial Heritage is built around a golf course in James City County, and that course is the organizing fact of the place: streets and lots are laid out around it, and plenty of homes front onto it. What that means for a buyer is that the housing here was planned as one piece rather than assembled over decades, so you are looking at a consistent body of relatively recent construction rather than a patchwork. More than half of the homes for sale at any given time are houses. David Tortolini Realty Group works this area closely and can tell you how a given street sits relative to the course.
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Colonial Heritage at a Glance
- County
- James City County County
- ZIP codes in these listings
- 23188
- Typical asking price
- $472,500 (median of 28 active listings)
- Typical sold price
- $547,250 (median of 78 sales, past 12 months)
- Typical home
- 2,152 sq ft (n=28) · 3 bed / 2.1 bath (medians, n=28)
- Months of supply
- 4.3 (leaning to sellers)
- Sold-to-list
- 100% of asking (median per home sale, n=78)
- Data current as of
- October 2026
The Colonial Heritage market right now
Three things should shape how you run your search here. The supply figure falls into the range classified as leaning toward sellers, which is simply a ratio of what is listed against how quickly homes have been selling, so read it as a description of the market and nothing more. Closings that have already happened came in at or above what the sellers were asking, which is worth knowing when you look at past sales and try to make sense of them. And more than half of what is for sale here is a house, so if a house is what you want, that is where the listings are concentrated. Go in with your financing settled and your must-haves written down.
What your money buys in Colonial Heritage
The most common layout sold here is a three-bedroom, and that runs around $553,000. The typical home dates to 2013, which puts this stock at the age where the first round of big-ticket replacements starts coming due. That is not a mark against the houses, it is just the arithmetic of a build year: components installed when the home went up are reaching the end of their first service life, a few at a time. The practical move is to have the seller tell you which of those replacements have already been done and which are still original equipment. Get that straight before you write, and you will know what the next several years of owning this house actually look like.
What to pin down before you make an offer
- Age-restricted community occupancy requirements.
- HOA dues and what amenities they cover.
- Golf club membership requirements or fees separate from HOA.
- Special tax or CDD assessment district.
- Rental and leasing restrictions within the association.
Working with David Tortolini Realty Group
Two things on this page are easy to misjudge from a listing site: how close sales run to the asking price, and the way the association, the golf club and the community's occupancy requirements fit together on any given home. David Tortolini Realty Group tracks what is actually closing in Colonial Heritage and can tell you which documents govern a specific address before you write anything. If you want, we can set up alerts for the layouts and price band you are targeting here and walk you through each one as it comes up, so you are reading real numbers rather than list prices.
