The Neverending Subdivision of Llanerch

By Ethan Parmet, written January 2nd, 2026

Despite being a planned community, Llanerch has historically been known for many of its nice estates, large/nice homes with large yards. Such is the case for some characteristically pleasant homes, such as that of 29 East Park Road. However, in the past 30 years, such a trait has been diminishing with the everpresent subdivision of Llanerch estates for the purpose of building new housing. Such new housing in the Greater Philadelphia area is not unexpected, as the area is a very desirable place to live - good schools with close access to a large population and jobs center while being able to escape the abysmal fiscal policy and lack of competent governance in the City of Philadelphia.

Such homes include:
160 Bewley Road, subdivided from 29 Tenby Road.
300 Davis Road, subdivided from 302 Davis Road.
306 Davis Road, subdivided from 304 Davis Road.
27 East Park Road, subdivided from 29 East Park Road.
32 East Park Road, subdivided from 28 East Park Road.
212 East Park Road, subdivided from 210 East Park Road.
318 and 322 Lansdowne Road, both subdivided from 5 Llandillo Road.
6 Llandillo Road, subdivided from 4 Llandillo Road.

There is certainly nothing illegal about the change, and large plots of unused and unwanted land by owners of the property are entirely to the discretion of said owners on whether or not the land should be sold and build upon. However, it gets to a point. As someone who has special interests in the history of the neighborhood and ownership of its homes, I occassionally peruse the Zillow listings in the area, seeing what homes have recently been sold or have been listed for sale. I came across two listings that struck me as odd.

If you have good attention to detail, a few things might come to your eye immediately. If you live in the area and take walks in it regularly, you probably realize that these homes don't exist, despite it saying "new construction" and not that it is a planned build. Those who are online often might recognize that these images are either AI-generated/manipulated or a very unusual and deceptive mockup. For houses that would have to be tightly squeezed between others, there is a notable lack of other peoples' houses in frame. As of the date this is being written, January 2nd, 2026, these houses do not exist, nor do any sign of their construction if one is to walk to the alleged sites of location.

As one can clearly see, the spaces between the properties required for these homes to be built (108 & 112 Township Line, 219 & 223 East Park), aren't exactly the most spacious. For the one on Township Line, unless 108 decides it doesn't need a driveway, the lot is maybe 40 feet wide. And for East Park, would require cramming both the home and the built-in garage into maybe a 50-feet wide lot, unless the garage belonging to 223 is demolished.

I decided to reach out to Coldwell Banker Realty, the company that listed these "homes", to figure out the situation. I wasn't sure if these were just ambitious plans, or if someone was fraudulently pretending to be the company online for some nefarious purpose. I also had suspicions there was AI assistance in generating the listing descriptions. I called their office and spoke to a realtor at their company (although not the one specifically mentioned in the listings). He kindly helped me investigate and determined that such listings were legitimate and by the company, even if they had not been built yet. He stated that they were likely for interested buyers who seeked to have a semi-custom home build, as the listings also have floor plans that can be modified for the buyers' liking.

This raised an interesting question for me regarding these sorts of listings. The listings have been up since October 8th, 2025 (86 days ago as of the time I am writing this). Despite heavy demand for homes in Havertown, this is not a short amount of time. It seems as if this company is specifically seeking to subdivide Llanerch homes without such heavy demand and later expects to find buyers after these plans have been generated. It is one thing to find such a large piece of land, build upon it, and then sell the house, but with the custom aspect of these homes, it seems like there is an attempt to start a bidding war for the perfect buyer who wants to build his or her own house. The location is picked first, and the actual home matters less, as opposed to a typical reason someone might buy a home: they like it.