Oconee Landing, Lake Oconee | Neighborhood Guide

Oconee Landing sits on the White Plains side of Lake Oconee in Greene County, reached by turning off Flat Rock Church Road onto Howard Lewis Road and watching for the gates on the right. The map below shows where the community falls on the lake and the area it covers.

The Lake Oconee Publix is a little over twenty minutes out, which is the trade you make for this setting. Oconee Towne Center is coming at the Interstate 20 exit in Greensboro, and when it opens it will put shopping and services considerably closer to this side of the lake.

Oconee Landing is built around shared amenities in a way most non-gated neighborhoods on this side of the lake are not. The lakeside common area carries the boat ramp, the community dock and the day docks, and inside the gates there are ponds, walking trails, a pavilion and a fire pit. Together they give the neighborhood a communal center that a road of private docks does not have.

Oconee Landing was a life lesson for me. I remember back in 2009, as the real estate world tumbled, when word on the street hit that a huge parcel of land on the White Plains side had gone into foreclosure and been taken back by the bank. It sat for a few years before an acquisition company picked it up. Around 2012, that former farmland was platted out and auctioned off in a couple of high-profile rounds. Lakefront lots went for around $200,000. Today those same lots have more than doubled in value, and multi-million-dollar lakefront homes sit on most of them. Note to self: buy the auction land. You will sadly never get a second chance — I didn’t.

The auction lots are now some of the most expensive real estate on this side of Lake Oconee. Waterfront homes here have sold from the mid $1 millions up to around $2.7 million since 2022, which puts the top of this neighborhood among the highest recorded anywhere on the Richland and White Plains shore. The handful of properties without their own frontage sit well below that.

The trajectory is plain in the repeat sales. Houses that have traded twice inside the last few years have gone up substantially between the two, and that is on top of the auction-to-today arc rather than instead of it.

The lots are part of the appeal and part of the price. They run from just under an acre to nine acres, which is estate-scale for a lake community.

Not every lot is on the water. Most have private frontage and their own dock, but some of the larger interior parcels have no frontage at all and reach the lake through the community ramp and docks instead. Those are two different products at two different prices, so establish which one you are looking at.