Type "new homes Hoover Alabama" into a search bar right now and you will likely land on an ad for Everlee promising homes from the $200s. Tour the community a few weeks later and ask about a single-family plan with room for a family of four, and the number a builder representative writes on the whiteboard will probably start with a 7. Both prices are real. They just belong to two different products wearing the same name.
Everlee is Hoover's 833-acre master-planned community off Alabama 150, tucked between Ross Bridge, Deer Valley, and Lake Cyrus in South Hoover. Signature Homes launched it in 2022 as a ten-year build-out, and the marketing treats it as one lifestyle brand: pools, pickleball, golf simulators, a life "designed to inspire." What the marketing does not make obvious is that Everlee is actually four separate builder programs, each with its own price floor, its own buyer profile, and its own amenity building on its own construction schedule. If you are comparing Everlee to a resale listing elsewhere in Hoover, or trying to figure out what your budget actually buys inside Everlee itself, the sub-neighborhood you're looking at matters more than the community name on the sign.
Four Neighborhoods, Four Very Different Price Floors
Everlee's original plan called for four sections: Village Center, Primrose, Iris Grove, and Sage Park. Iris Grove remains in earlier phases with little published pricing so far. The other three are actively selling, and their price tags do not overlap much at all.
| Sub-neighborhood | Buyer profile | Builder-advertised starting price | Amenity building |
|---|---|---|---|
| Village Center | Attached cottages near shops | Low-to-high $300s | The Square |
| Lofts at Primrose | Compact attached homes, age 55+ | From roughly $240,000 | The Square, with The Retreat opening for Primrose residents |
| Primrose (single-family and cottage options) | Active adult, age 55+ | From roughly $434,000 | The Retreat |
| Sage Park | Multigenerational, single-family | Builder floor near $438,000, but current listings for the larger Signature series run $720,000 to $915,879 | The Social |
That last row is the one worth sitting with. Signature Homes advertises Sage Park starting near $438,000, and that number is accurate for the smallest available plan. But the homes most family buyers actually walk through, the Signature series with soaring ceilings and two-story foyers, are listed well north of $700,000, with basement plans running $785,000 to $875,481. A buyer who searched "Everlee from the $200s" and ends up standing in a Sage Park model home is looking at a price roughly three times higher than the headline that got them there. That's not a bait and switch. It's the natural result of one marketing umbrella covering an attached loft in a 55+ community and a 4,394-square-foot family home on the same website.
The Amenities You're Promised Are Still Being Built
The other piece of Everlee's story that doesn't show up in a listing photo is timing. The community's first amenity center, called The Square, is genuinely impressive: a $15 million, 30,000-square-foot building with a 9,000-square-foot zero-entry pool, pickleball courts, an indoor golf simulator, and a demo kitchen. Signature Homes worked with Nequette Architecture and Design to build it at roughly the scale of Hoover's own recreation center, and the pool opened to residents in July 2025 with the rest of the building following that November.
But The Square is not the only amenity building in the plan, and it is not finished serving every section. Primrose, the 55+ portion of Everlee, gets its own dedicated facility called The Retreat, which Signature Homes projected earlier this year would be complete by this summer, meaning a Primrose buyer touring the community right now should confirm in person whether that building has actually opened. Sage Park gets The Social, a separate pool-and-gathering space with a wiffle ball field and dog park, and that one isn't projected to open until the summer of 2027.
Signature Homes CEO Jonathan Belcher described the intent behind The Square this way when it opened: the goal was a space "that could easily accommodate the entire community," one large enough to bring together "all walks of life" under one roof. That's a fair description of what exists today. It's a less complete description of what a Sage Park buyer closing on a home right now is actually purchasing, because the amenity building built specifically for their section is still roughly a year out. Everlee's on-site property manager, Whitney Zickafoose, noted that the pool's opening summer already drew "a wide range of people, from those that wanted to come and do laps in the morning to young parents with kids in the afternoon." That's a real amenity, available now, at The Square. Whether a Sage Park household gets equivalent access before The Social opens is a question worth asking the builder directly rather than assuming from the brochure.
Why This Matters If You're Comparing Everlee to Somewhere Else in Hoover
Established Hoover communities like Ross Bridge sell you a finished product. The trails, the golf course, the village center storefronts, all of it exists today and has for years. Everlee sells you a phased rollout, and the phase you buy into changes what you get on move-in day versus what you get in 2027 once the full 2,344-home plan and its remaining amenity buildings are complete.
That distinction matters for the math too. As of late August 2026, 30-year fixed mortgage rates in Alabama were running between about 6.75 percent and 6.83 percent, depending on the lender. On a $438,000 Sage Park starter plan, that rate difference is manageable. On a $915,000 Signature series home, every eighth of a point moves the monthly payment by real money, and that's before factoring in whatever the HOA dues eventually look like once three amenity buildings, instead of one, are operating and being maintained.
None of this means Everlee is a bad choice. For a buyer who wants new construction, a resort-style pool available today, and the option to grow into a larger home later, Everlee's format has genuine advantages over hunting for a comparable new build scattered across Hoover's smaller subdivisions. But the comparison only works if you're pricing the actual home you'll live in, not the headline number attached to a different section entirely.
Questions Worth Asking Before You Write an Offer
- Which amenity building actually serves your specific section, and is it open yet or still under construction?
- Are you comparing your quoted price to other active listings within that same sub-neighborhood, not the builder's advertised floor for the whole community?
- If schools matter to your decision, confirm current zoning directly with Hoover City Schools. Sage Park homes are currently zoned to South Shades Crest Elementary, Brock's Gap Intermediate, Bumpus Middle, and Hoover High School, but a development still years from build-out can see zoning revisited as enrollment grows.
- What do current HOA dues fund today, and what do the association's own documents say about how those dues change as The Retreat and The Social come online?
A Few Questions Buyers Ask First
Is all of Everlee age-restricted? No. Primrose is the 55+ active adult section. Village Center, Sage Park, and Iris Grove are open to buyers of any age.
Will my HOA dues change once the other amenity buildings open? Likely, though the specific dollar figures depend on your section and the association's current budget. Ask for the HOA's governing documents and most recent budget for your specific sub-neighborhood rather than relying on general marketing language about the community.
When will Everlee be fully built out? The master plan launched in 2022 as a ten-year project. The Retreat was projected to open this summer and The Social is projected for summer 2027, so buyers should expect ongoing construction activity across the property for several more years even as individual sections fill in.
If you're weighing a new-construction community like Everlee against an established Hoover neighborhood, or you're trying to figure out what a specific Everlee section will actually cost once you account for the plan size and lot you want, Jerry and Karen Sager at Riverstone Realty Group can walk you through current listings section by section and help you compare them against resale options in Ross Bridge, Bluff Park, and the rest of Hoover. Request a free home valuation to start the conversation with real numbers instead of a starting price that may not describe the home you actually want.
