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Summerlake

The Summerlake, is a home with a tremendous amount of curb appeal. The large front porch with its detailed columns gives a warm welcome. The shed dormer with its multiple windows add character to the façade. Read More

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Featured Article

Builders highlight often-hidden costs of buying a foreclosed home

Reporting from Orlando, Fla.— Home builders are switching tactics and confronting head-on one of their biggest nemeses: foreclosed houses that not only lure buyers away with deeply discounted prices but simultaneously depress the appraisal values of newly built homes.

At a packed session at the International Builders' Show expo Feb. 8-11 in Orlando, consultants and builders said that with gluts of foreclosures in major markets around the country — and more forecast to arrive in the next two years — the time has come to stop being passive and to begin aggressively educating buyers about the often hidden costs of buying foreclosures.

In Phoenix, one large builder, Fulton Homes, has put together an interactive "foreclosure cost calculator" at http://www.fultonhomes.com/foreclosure-calculator that helps shoppers estimate the expenses they're likely to encounter if they opt for a foreclosure. The calculator uses what the company's vice president, Dennis Webb, said are commercially available expense averages for acquiring, repairing and outfitting foreclosed houses of varying sizes, conditions and price levels in the area. Read More

*Used with permission from Builder Magazine

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Whether Urban Infill or Suburban Enclave, Traditional Neighborhood Design is an important element of today's housing industry. "Sense of Community" is the key amenity of such developments. The relationship between public and private spaces in communities as well as public and private spaces in individual homes is critical to achieve the desired environment in a Traditional Neighborhood Design. Frank Betz Associates has created this group of home plans to simplify the process of creating a Traditional Neighborhood Design community. This collection of house plans includes distinctly different home plan types that will easily satisfy design requirements for a new development. There are one-story and two-story home plan groups coordinated in a manner to produce the "Sense of Community" that so many of today's home buyers desire.

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