11626 Brief Road — 8.84 Deeded Acres on the Mecklenburg–Union Line

The Story

Land like this does not come back around

Contiguous acreage minutes from I-485 is functionally extinct. What remains trades quietly, and rarely twice.

8.84

Acres, deeded

One assemblage of open land and woods, held by one family and offered as one opportunity — every acre of it behind a single entrance on Brief Road.

Counties

The Mecklenburg–Union line crosses the property itself. Two jurisdictions, two tax bases — a position almost no property can offer.

Separately deeded parcels

Two recorded in each county — a structure a single deed cannot offer. What that flexibility can become is an access and zoning question, and the record is open for a buyer to work it.

The Land

Drawn from the record, marked on the ground

This map is not an illustration. It is the property's actual recorded geometry, drawn from Mecklenburg and Union County GIS.

Aerial of 11626 Brief Road showing the four recorded parcels, Brief Road, and the entrance

Mecklenburg County — solid boundary · Union County — dashed boundary

Boundaries drawn from official county GIS records over current aerial imagery. Acreage of record is 8.84 deeded acres — deed DB 32077 PG 566, two tracts of 3.84 and 5.00 acres surveyed by Richard Boyd Brooks, R.L.S., 13 July 1995. The deed's two tracts do not align to the four tax parcels, so the mapped figures above locate each parcel rather than total the deeded acreage. Dimensions subject to survey.

Parcel	County	Mapped acres	Character
197-155-26	Mecklenburg	3.160	Brief Road frontage — the entrance
197-155-27	Mecklenburg	2.169	The residence, set back from the road
082-460-23	Union	2.533	Open land, rear
082-460-23A	Union	0.85	Open land, rear
Total	—	8.84	Deeded — DB 32077 PG 566

One way in

The whole assemblage reaches Brief Road through a single entrance on the northern parcel. The residence sits roughly a thousand feet off the pavement; the land runs back from there to the Union County line. Privacy is not a feature here — it is the geometry.

Documented, not described

Recorded parcel data for both counties is public in both registers, and the corners are marked on the ground — walk it and find them. Everything here can be checked against the record, and a serious buyer should check all of it.

A thousand feet of it

From the gate, the drive runs back under a continuous canopy before the land opens at the residence. Nothing else on these 8.84 acres touches pavement — the distance is the privacy, and no photograph explains it the way the drive itself does.

For Builders & Developers

One gate. 8.84 acres.
Room for a few great houses.

The geometry that makes this private also makes it plannable — a single controlled entrance, one drive held to the boundary, and the land opening behind it.

Illustrative site plan showing eight homesites served by a single straight drive from one entrance on Brief Road, with a turnaround at the rear

Illustrative only — not an approved plan · no dimensions shown

The math a builder runs

At the offered price, eight sites put the land basis near $150,000 each — against comparable Mint Hill homesites of roughly an acre offered from $275,000, in communities where homes begin around $1.5M.

Power is already at the back

Duke ran underground service the length of the property to a transformer near the rear — put in for this land, not for a neighbour. The drive itself is built about a third of the way in; the rest is cleared and finished along the same corridor.

See the full development case

Site count, boundaries and areas shown are conceptual and subject to survey, soil evaluation and jurisdictional approval in both counties. Buyer to verify all details independently.

The Residence

Somewhere to live while you build

A home of 1,554 square feet — three bedrooms, two baths — built in 1983 and owner-occupied since 2010, roof replaced the same year. Private well, septic with pump, all-electric heat pump and furnace. Set roughly a thousand feet back among the trees. It answers the most expensive question in any custom build: where you live during it. Live in it, or rent it and let it work against the construction carry. For a builder, it is a site office and a model that costs nothing to keep.

Bedrooms

Baths

1,554

Square feet

The log residence with its covered porch, set among mature trees at the end of the drive

The Setting

Country quiet, city math

Brief Road runs through estate country on Charlotte's southeastern edge — large holdings, long driveways, and multi-million-dollar neighbors.

3.0 mi

To I-485 at Lawyers Road — the full Charlotte arc within reach

Estate-scale

Neighboring properties, including multi-million-dollar homes

Mint Hill

& Indian Trail — two of the region's steadiest growth corridors

Regional map showing 11626 Brief Road three miles east of the I-485 loop, with Uptown Charlotte, SouthPark, Ballantyne, Providence/Blakeney, Matthews and Mint Hill

Three miles east of I-485 · straight-line distance shown

The House & What Else Is On It

Wood, inside and out

The porch runs the length of the house and looks at nothing but trees. Inside, the log walls carry through every room — and beyond the clearing there is a stable, a barn and open fenced ground.

The covered porch running the length of the log house, looking out into trees — The porch, end to end

Rocking chairs and a bench under the covered porch — Where the day goes

Stone-faced french doors opening onto the deck — Stone and glass, out to the deck

The great room with log walls, hardwood floors and windows to the trees — The great room

The open loft above the great room with a timber rail — The loft above

Dining area with a chandelier and french doors to the deck — Dining, out to the deck

The kitchen with wood cabinetry and stainless appliances — The kitchen

A renovated bath with a tiled shower surround — A bath, renovated

An open stable with stalls at the edge of the fenced ground — The stable

A metal barn under mature trees — The barn

Aerial view of the clearing, the residence and the drive within surrounding woodland — The clearing, from above

The front elevation of the log residence with its covered porch — The house in its clearing

Due Diligence

Verify everything

Both required North Carolina disclosures download straight from this page — no form, no waiting for an offer — and they’re attached to the MLS listing as well. Everything else is public record or a buyer’s own investigation, which is exactly how a property like this should be bought.

Recorded parcel & tax data — both counties

Public record

Mecklenburg deeds — Register of Deeds search

Book 32077 · Pg 566

Union County deeds — Register of Deeds

Bk 1216/184 · Bk 1336/384

Plats & survey

Buyer to obtain

Soil evaluation & septic capacity

Buyer to investigate

Zoning, subdivision & access

Buyer to confirm

Residential Property & Owners’ Association Disclosure — RPOADS

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Mineral, Oil & Gas Rights Disclosure — MOG

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Mecklenburg records are free and public. Union County's online index requires a registered account; records are otherwise available from the Register of Deeds, 500 N Main St, Monroe NC 28112. All acreage subject to survey.

Talk it through

11626
Brief Road

Land like this does not come back around