What Does It Cost to Buy in Villages at Canterbury, Perrysburg? 16 Closings, With the Math

Most of what you can find about Villages at Canterbury is a builder brochure or a listing page. Neither one tells you what people actually paid. Sixteen homes closed there this year at a median of $819,348, with a range from $589,850 to $2,034,773. For comparison, Perrysburg as a whole ran $414,735.

So the community trades at roughly double its own town, which makes it one of the most expensive addresses in greater Toledo. That part is not surprising. What surprised me when I pulled the numbers is how long the RESALES take, and how fast the new builds go.

How Long Does a Home in Villages at Canterbury Take to Sell?

It depends on whether it is new or a resale, and that distinction changes the answer completely.

Pooled together, the 16 closings there ran a 90-day median against about 39 for Perrysburg as a whole. I published that blended number first and it was the wrong way to read this community, because the two halves move in opposite directions:

	Villages at Canterbury	Perrysburg overall
Resale (built before 2024)	114 days	38 days
New build (2024 and newer)	34 days	94 days

Resales there take about three times as long as resales in the town around them. That is the real signal, and it is sharper than the blended figure suggested. Five resales closed at a $683,000 median, and the slowest ran 164 days.

New builds there are fast, not slow. A 34-day median, against 94 for new construction across Perrysburg. That is a builder listing homes at or near completion rather than at contract signing, so the clock barely runs.

Which means the practical advice splits too:

1. Selling a resale there, price for a 114-day market. Not the town's 38, and not the 90-day blend. Your competition is new construction from the same builder, and it shows buyers a finished product with a warranty.
2. Buying a resale there, time really is leverage. A resale past four months in a community this small is a real conversation.
3. Buying new there, time is not leverage at all. A 34-day median means the builder is not sitting on inventory, and treating days-on-market as negotiating room will not work.

Everything there closed at 100 percent of final list price regardless of which half it was in, so the pricing holds. What changes is how long it takes and who you are competing with.

What Does the Money Actually Buy?

The 2026 closings there, by the numbers from our MLS:

	Villages at Canterbury	Perrysburg overall
2026 closings	16	343
Median close	$819,348	$414,735
Price range	$589,850 to $2,034,773	wide
Median days to contract	90	39
Median sale to final list	100%	100%
Cash buyers	19%	20%

Median above-grade living area was 3,296 square feet, which works out to about $248 per square foot. Most of what closed also carried a basement: of the sixteen, six had finished lower levels at a median of about 1,504 square feet, and nine had unfinished basement space of a similar size.

That basement split matters more than it looks. A finished lower level is real living space that does not appear in the above-grade square footage, so two homes at the same list price can differ by fifteen hundred usable feet. When I compare homes there for a buyer, that is the first thing I separate out, because price per square foot quietly lies about it.

Recorded closings were built between 2018 and 2025, with a median build year of 2025. This is not an established neighborhood with a resale history. Most of what trades is new or nearly new.

Who Builds There, and What Is Still Being Built?

Saba Signature Homes is the builder behind the community, which is laid out with wide streets, walking paths, ponds, cul-de-sacs and maintained green space.

The part worth knowing if you are shopping there right now: the builder describes a community pool and clubhouse as a nearly one million dollar project opening in summer 2026. That amenity is not open yet.

That creates a genuine timing question. Buying before an amenity opens usually means buying before it is priced in, and in a community this small, a pool and clubhouse is a meaningful share of what the address is selling. It can also mean living through the construction. I would want to see the association's build schedule in writing before deciding which side of that opening to be on, and that is a document a buyer can ask for.

What About the Taxes?

Here is where I have to be careful with you, because Perrysburg is in Wood County, not Lucas, and Wood County's 2026 picture is not settled.

Wood County residential values rose an average of 19 percent in the current update. The county's own guidance is explicit that taxes do not rise by the same percentage as value, because Ohio's reduction factors compensate. It is equally explicit that a tax estimate cannot be produced yet, because those reduction factors and the levies on the November ballot are not settled.

So I am not going to hand you an effective tax rate for this community. Anyone who does right now is guessing. What I will tell you is that on an $819,348 home, the difference between a good estimate and a bad one is several hundred dollars a month, which is not a rounding error on a thirty-year hold. The number you should budget from is the actual parcel's current bill plus room for the update, and that is a document, not an average.

What Are the HOA Dues?

I do not know, and I am not going to make one up.

The association does not publish a dues figure anywhere I can verify. That is common with newer communities, and it is exactly the kind of number that gets guessed at in a listing conversation and then surprises someone at closing. On a community with a nearly million dollar amenity coming online, the assessment is not a footnote.

If you are seriously considering a purchase there, I will get the current assessment in writing from the association, along with what it covers and whether the pool and clubhouse changes it. That takes one phone call and it belongs in your budget before you write, not after.

How Does It Compare to the Other Top Communities Around Toledo?

Canterbury does not exist in isolation. Here are the named communities with enough 2026 closings to measure, from the same MLS pull:

Community	Town	2026 closings	Median close	Median days to contract
Villages at Canterbury	Perrysburg	16	$819,348	90
Hawthorne	Perrysburg	14	$579,925	72
Summerfield	Perrysburg	17	$499,900	174
Stoney Creek	Monclova	15	$479,900	see note
Village at Riverbend	Perrysburg	16	$436,740	40
Ottawa Hills	Ottawa Hills	34	$414,950	55

Three things jump out of that table.

Canterbury is the top of this market by a clear margin. It closes about $239,000 above the next community on the list, and roughly double Perrysburg overall.

Those day counts are not all measuring the same thing. Summerfield's 174-day median looks alarming and is not: 15 of its 17 closings were built in 2025 or 2026, and 16 of 17 closed with no price reduction whatsoever. Those are to-be-built contracts, listed when the contract was signed and closed when the house was finished. The clock is measuring construction, not a house nobody wanted. Village at Riverbend, 16 of 16 with no reduction, shows the same pattern at 40 days simply because that builder lists later in the process. In a builder community, days on market is a reporting convention. Read the price reductions instead, and there mostly are none.

A note on Stoney Creek, because I will not publish a number I cannot explain. Its closings compute to a zero-day median, which is not a market signal. It is what happens when builder contracts get signed at or before the listing date, so the listing-to-contract clock never runs. That is normal in a new-construction community and it is also why builder communities need to be read differently than resale ones.

Is Villages at Canterbury the Right Buy?

It depends which trade you are making, and there are really only two.

You are buying new, not established. Median build year 2025 means little resale history and few comparable sales to argue from. That cuts both ways: less data to defend a price, and less deferred maintenance to inherit. My grandfather was a carpenter and I read houses the way he taught me, and I will say plainly that a 2025 build is a different inspection than a 1989 one. Newer does not mean flawless, it means the failure modes are different, and on new construction the ones I look hardest at are grading and drainage, the mechanical rough-in, and whatever the builder's punch list did not close.

You are buying a small pool, in both directions. Sixteen sales a year means when you sell, your buyer pool is narrow and 90 days is the realistic clock. It also means when you buy, you are not fighting eleven offers.

At $819,348 median against a town at $414,735, this is a deliberate choice to be at the top of a market rather than the middle of one. That is a defensible choice. It just should not be an accidental one.

What Would Your Number Be Here?

Everything above is sixteen closings and a median. Your situation is one lot, one floor plan, one basement finish, and one parcel's tax history in a county mid-update.

Send me the address or the lot you are looking at, or comment or DM the word CANTERBURY, and I will pull it: what actually closed on comparable lots, the real assessment from the association in writing, the parcel's current tax bill, and where I think the number should land. It takes me a day and it is the difference between buying at the top of a market on purpose and doing it by accident.

Adam Geuy, Realtor - Blacktree Realty. ABR, PSA, SRS. Perrysburg and greater Toledo, Ohio. 419.540.8659.