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In these times, it’s rare to find positive news about housing, but I found something good in an earlier edition of Builder Magazine.
In an article on the health of the country’s top housing markets, the Raleigh-Cary market was ranked No. 1 with a score of 86.9; Durham-Chapel Hill was No. 3 at 81.5 and [...]
Grab your husband, wife, friend or neighbor and get out and enjoy all the new homes on the Triad Parade of Homes tour! This is a great time of year in the Triad for many reasons, but in the new homes industry, this is the biggest event of the year.
I became involved with the Parade [...]
There has been an interesting phenomenon in the new homes market over the last few months…the luxury market for new homes seems to be gaining some momentum! Now every market defines “luxury” differently. For Charlotte it would be homes in excess of $500,000. We have seen a steady rise in sales over the last few [...]
Last week, we waited to see who was going to blink first on the debt ceiling crisis and watched our elected officials play Russian roulette with our financial future. This was obviously the most visible example of our politicians not listening to their constituents; however it is not the only one. Anyone associated with housing [...]
I am one of the 40 million baby boomers roaming around out there asking the same question as many others: “When are builders going to pay attention to us and build homes that we want to move into?” What does this home look like you may ask? Well, it would be a one to one [...]
“It’s not Easy Being Green” was a hit song from the 70’s made popular by Frank Sinatra and Kermit the frog. Well today, “being green” is the latest buzz phrase in the home building industry but what does it really mean?
Simply put, being green when building a home is utilizing practices and products that are [...]
You’ve heard the saying, “liars figure and figures lie.” Well when it comes to the homebuilding industry, no one knows what to believe. It has been stated that we need 1.7 million new homes each year in the U.S. In the past two years we have built about 1.1 million homes which theoretically puts us [...]
This is the last segment of our “building a custom home” series. A lot of the anxiety that occurs during the homebuilding process can be eliminated by asking lots of question of your builder and doing some research before you ever start the process. That said, we will cover some of the areas to be [...]
In our first 3 segments of this series we discussed selecting your builder, lot and architect. In this one we will discuss coming up with the elusive “final price”! You thought all the hard work was behind you? Well think again because this process starts from the time the ink dries on the blue prints [...]
Selecting an architect has become infinitely easier and much more affordable. With the advent of plan books and computer aided design known as CAD, you can now buy a ready to build set of blueprints at a very affordable price. However as we have mentioned in this series, don’t let price be the driver of [...]
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