Shawood is not a name most people in Clark County recognize yet. That's going to change. The Glades at Green Mountain in Camas is one of the first five communities in the United States to feature Shawood homes — a brand of Sekisui House, one of the largest homebuilders in the world, headquartered in Japan and now building in select U.S. markets. These are not typical production homes. The construction method, the materials, and the engineering behind them are fundamentally different from anything else being built in this market.
If you've driven past the signs on Leadbetter Road, walked through the model home, or started Googling what Shawood actually is — this page is the guide you should read before your next visit.
Community Overview
Builder: Shawood (a brand of Sekisui House) Location: Green Mountain area, Camas, WA — 5437 N 94th Ave Status: Now open. Model home available for touring. Homesites actively selling. Price range: Starting from $1,200,000. With design selections and lot premiums, finished prices can reach $2M+ — the model home, fully appointed, would price in the $2.3–$2.4M range. Total homesites: 25 Current availability: 7 homesites available (4 of which back to greenspace). 4 sold. Lot sizes: Approximately 7,000 sq ft Home sizes: 3,197–3,586 sq ft School district: Camas School District — Lacamas Lake Elementary, Liberty Middle School, Camas High School
(Pricing reflects information available as of March 2026. Contact The Tartan Team for current availability and pricing.)
What Makes Shawood at The Glades Worth Considering
The honest answer is the construction itself. There is nothing else like this being built in Clark County, and very little like it anywhere in the Pacific Northwest.
Shawood homes use a hybrid structural system that originated in Japan — a combination of rigid-frame ("Rahmen") post-and-beam construction and monocoque panel construction. In practical terms, this means the homes are engineered to withstand seismic events that would damage or destroy conventionally framed houses. Sekisui House has built over two million homes in Japan, a country where earthquakes are a fact of life, and not a single Shawood home has been partially or fully destroyed in any earthquake. That's not marketing language. That's a track record.
The structural materials are equally unusual. Shawood uses 120mm glue-laminated wood for posts and beams — engineered lumber made from sustainably sourced timber that's matured 80 to 120 years in cold climates to produce tight growth rings and exceptional strength. Each beam is custom-cut and pre-fitted with proprietary metal joints (Shawood's MJ System) at the factory before being shipped to the construction site. The result is a level of precision and consistency that site-built framing simply cannot match.
The exterior walls are clad in Bellburn ceramic tiles — Shawood's proprietary fired-ceramic panels that resist fire, earthquakes, fading, and scratches. They're made from earth and glaze, like pottery, and each tile has a subtle, one-of-a-kind character. Functionally, they mean the exterior of a Shawood home will look essentially the same in twenty years as it does the day you move in. No repainting. No siding replacement. No fading.
Inside, the standard features read like an upgrade package at most other builders: Zero Energy Essential package with backup power capability, MERV-13 air filtration, low and no-VOC materials throughout, and certifications including Energy Star, Indoor airPLUS, WaterSense, and LEED. The indoor air quality alone sets these homes apart — this is a fundamentally different living environment from what you'll find in a conventionally built home at any price point.
The location adds to the case. The Glades sits in the Green Mountain area of Camas, roughly five and a half miles from downtown. You're in the Camas School District — Lacamas Lake Elementary, Liberty Middle, and Camas High — which is consistently among the highest-rated districts in the state. Lacamas Lake Park, with its six miles of trails, waterfalls, and lake access, is nearby. Daily conveniences — Costco, New Seasons Market, Providence medical facilities — are all within a short drive. Highway 14 provides access to Portland and PDX in under 30 minutes.
The community itself includes a clubhouse, a seasonal pool, and walking trails. It's shared with Holt Homes, which is building a separate section of The Glades at a different price point — but the Shawood section is its own distinct neighborhood within the larger development.
Having walked through the Shawood model home, I'd put it up against the very best custom-built homes I've ever toured — including Parade of Homes properties that were built to impress. The quality of the materials, the precision of the joinery, the way natural light moves through the spaces — it's a different category of home.
Floor Plans and Pricing Overview
Shawood currently offers three floor plans at The Glades, ranging from approximately 3,200 to 3,600 square feet. All are designed around Shawood's post-and-beam structural system, which allows for larger open spans and more flexible interior layouts than conventional framing.
Haku — 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3,197 sq ft, 3-car garage. Starting from $1,200,000. The entry point into Shawood at The Glades. The Haku features a double-height foyer with natural light, a spa-inspired primary retreat, and an expansive great room with seamless indoor-outdoor living. This is the plan that best showcases the structural openness the Shawood building system makes possible.
Kita — 5 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, 3,379 sq ft, 3-car garage. Starting from $1,300,000. The largest bedroom count in the lineup, with a serene Kokage lounge designed for relaxation, soaring 20-foot ceilings in the great room, and a professional-grade kitchen with an expansive pantry. For families who need the space without giving up the design intention Shawood is known for.
Lago — 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 3,586 sq ft, 2-car garage. Starting from $1,200,000. The Lago's standout feature is a main-floor guest suite with a walk-in closet — a layout that's increasingly in demand for multi-generational households or frequent hosting. It also includes a spacious office/den retreat and an oversized 2-car garage with integrated storage.
Multiple architectural elevations are available across the plans — including Prairie, Modern, and Farmhouse styles — giving each home a distinct exterior character even within a 25-lot community.
The critical pricing context: The base prices above are starting points — and they can be misleading. Design selections — finishes, fixtures, appliances, and upgrades — can add substantially to the final number. The model home at The Glades, with its full complement of design upgrades, would price in the $2.3–$2.4 million range. On a home with a base price of $1.2M, that means design selections alone can nearly double the cost. This is the single most important number to understand before you walk into the design selection process, because the selections are beautiful, the options are extensive, and the environment is designed to make you want all of it.
The floor plans themselves are not extensively customizable. You're choosing from Shawood's established designs — the structural precision of the building system doesn't lend itself to the kind of ad-hoc modifications a local custom builder might accommodate. Where the customization lives is in the design selections: finishes, fixtures, materials, and features. And that's where the spending can accelerate quickly.
For current floor plan availability and pricing, contact The Tartan Team to discuss your options before your first model home visit.
What to Watch Out For
Everything above, the builder's website can tell you. What follows is what they won't.
The gap between base price and finished price is the single most important number to understand. A base price of $1.2 million sounds like a known quantity. But when the model home — the one you walk through, the one that shapes your expectations — would sell for $2.3–$2.4 million, you're looking at a design selection process that can nearly double the cost of the home. The design options are extensive, the quality of the upgrades is real, and the experience of selecting them is designed to make you want all of it. Know your budget ceiling before you sit down in that process, not during it.
The lots are smaller than you might expect at this price point. At approximately 7,000 square feet, the homesites at Shawood's section of The Glades are not what most buyers picture when they think about a $1.2–$2M+ home. For context, that's roughly a sixth of an acre — smaller than many subdivision lots at half the price point. You're putting a 3,200–3,600 square foot home on a 7,000 square foot lot, which doesn't leave much room around the house. The tradeoff is deliberate: you're getting one of the most technically advanced homes on the market, built to a standard that virtually nothing in Clark County can match, but you're not getting estate-sized land to go with it. Privacy between homes will be limited. If acreage or elbow room is part of your vision for a home at this price, that's worth reconciling before you fall in love with the construction.
You're spending $1.2 million or more on a construction method most buyers in Clark County have never seen before. The technology is impressive. The construction quality is genuinely exceptional. And the contract still protects the builder. Sekisui House is a global corporation with deep legal resources. Their purchase agreement is not a two-page handshake deal — it's a corporate contract drafted to protect the builder's interests across every scenario the builder's attorneys could anticipate. The fact that the home is beautifully engineered doesn't change the fact that the paperwork is engineered just as carefully, and not in your favor.
The sales team is polished and knowledgeable — and they work for Shawood. The sales representatives at The Glades are specifically trained on the Shawood product. They know the construction system, the materials, the certifications, and the story behind Sekisui House. They'll answer your questions thoroughly, and they'll do it with the confidence that comes from representing a genuinely superior product. None of that changes who signs their paycheck. Their job is to sell homes for Shawood at the best possible terms for Shawood. The better they are at their job, the more important it is that you have someone at the table whose job is to protect your interests.
Twenty-five lots is a small community. With only 25 total homesites and limited availability at any given time, Shawood has less incentive to negotiate than a builder sitting on 200 unsold lots. Scarcity favors the seller. That doesn't mean there's no leverage in the deal — it means the leverage points are different, and you need to know where they are before you start the conversation.
Three mistakes new construction buyers make that cost them $15,000–$30,000
1. They trust the person sitting across the table.
The builder's sales rep is friendly. They're knowledgeable. They walk you through the model home, answer your questions, and make the whole process feel easy. And they work for the builder. Their job — the one they're paid to do — is to protect the builder's margin. Not yours. Every recommendation they make, every upgrade they steer you toward, every timeline they suggest is designed to serve the builder's interests first. That doesn't make them bad people. It makes them the other side of the table. You just didn't realize there were sides.
2. They negotiate the wrong things — or nothing at all.
Most buyers walk in thinking the sticker price is the sticker price. Some try to negotiate the sale price, which is usually the least flexible number in the deal. Meanwhile, the real money is sitting in places most buyers never think to look: lot premiums that vary by tens of thousands of dollars based on placement, upgrades with markups that would make you uncomfortable if you saw the actual cost sheets, closing cost credits the builder will offer but never volunteer, and rate buydowns that can save you more over the life of the loan than any price reduction ever would. The buyers who leave $15,000–$30,000 on the table aren't careless. They just didn't know where to look.
3. They skip representation because "it's just new construction."
It's a new home. What could go wrong? Quite a lot, actually. Builder purchase agreements are written by the builder's attorneys to protect the builder. Warranty limitations are buried in addenda most buyers never read carefully. Inspection timelines are structured so tightly that missing a window means waiving your right to object. And the HOA — if there is one — was created by the developer, with rules and financial structures that serve the developer's interests during the build-out phase, not yours after you move in. A new home doesn't mean a simple transaction. It means a transaction where the complexity is hidden behind fresh paint and a model home that smells like vanilla.
You don't need a traditional agent to buy new construction. But you do need someone who knows where the money is hiding and whose job it is to find it for you — not for the builder.
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Shawood's sales team at The Glades is among the most knowledgeable and well-trained you'll encounter in Clark County new construction. They understand the product deeply — the engineering, the materials, the certifications, the story. That level of expertise can make the experience feel more consultative than transactional. It can feel like they're advising you.
They're not. They're selling to you. The distinction matters.
On a Shawood purchase, the stakes are higher than most new construction transactions in this market. You're spending $1.2 million or more. The construction system is unfamiliar to most local buyers, which means the information asymmetry between you and the builder is larger than usual. The contract is drafted by a global corporation's legal team. And the design selection process can add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the final price in a single appointment.
The sales rep's job is to make you feel taken care of. Your agent's job is to make sure you actually are.
Independent representation on a Shawood purchase isn't about doing paperwork. It's about understanding the contract language of a builder most local agents have never worked with, knowing where the negotiation leverage exists in a 25-lot community, and having someone in the room during design selections whose financial incentive is aligned with yours — not with maximizing the builder's revenue per home.
Your Options with The Tartan Team
The Tartan Team offers flat-fee buyer representation for new construction. The traditional commission model charges a percentage of the purchase price — which on a $1.5M home means $37,000–$45,000 in buyer agent commission for a transaction where the builder does most of the heavy lifting. That model doesn't make sense for new construction, and it makes even less sense at this price point. Our flat-fee representation is $15,000 — which means on a typical Shawood purchase, the difference between our fee and what a traditional agent would charge you is $22,000 or more back in your pocket. You get experienced representation — contract review, negotiation strategy, design selection guidance, and closing oversight — at a cost that reflects the actual work involved. And the savings aren't theoretical. That's real money that stays with you instead of being absorbed by a commission structure that wasn't designed for this type of transaction.
Also considering other new construction communities in Clark County? See our guides to Schnell Farms (Pacific Lifestyle Homes), The Nines at Camas Meadows (Pacific Lifestyle Homes), Holt Homes at The Glades, Harmony Heights, Lacamas Hills (Toll Brothers), and The Enclave at Camas Meadows.
Last updated: March 2026