More Modification Efforts On The Way

Frank Shump is a veteran from the financial services industry, and currently authors a blog called Thefinancecastle ... . As the situation has continued to worsen, however, The Home Builders dropped its opposition to the plan ... troubled borrowers save their home through bankruptcy. As you might have guessed, such an effort [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:44:57

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A Prefabricated Future?

The housing crisis is far from over, but there are some sectors in the industry that could emerge stronger when it ends. Buyers are downsizing and homebuilders like KB Homes (KBH) are focusing on smaller floor plans ... . Even luxury ‘McMansion’ builder Toll Brothers (TOL) is offering smaller home models to meet market [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 10:08:28

Shrinking Floorplans Meet Energy Costs and Buyers Budgets

Home-sold Builders are seeing less opportunity in building large homes and are retooling their floorplans to take this into account ... to afford the oversized home makes less sense. Add into the equation potential inflation and the high ... $300,000. Now, the builder is shrinking floor plans again. It recently launched a new line of homes [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 12:00:23

House Dreaming Part 2

I have been talking a lot about homes and planning ones dream houses for quite some time now, it is actually my mind set for this year ... celebrity homes and properties, I also find time to read the latest buzz from the famous Schumacher Homes Reviews, the most favored and well known builders of custom homes all over the US. You see [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 08:48:29

Mike Hollaway Custom Homes Recently Recognized as a Top Custom Home Builder

Mike Hollaway Custom Homes, which has built some of San Antonio’s premier neighborhoods since 1992, ... , baths and utility room • Select floor plans offer options such as: wet bars, built-ins, beamed ... or rope lighting, wood base molding, colonial style trim and door trim • Decorative crown molding [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 18:40:18

Church View Acres - Available Lots - Acreage in the Heart of Alamance County/Graham NC

Looking for Custom Homes Near Raleigh NC? Available Building Lots in Graham NC Neighborhood - Bring Your Own Builder Church View Acres offers ... us at 919-278-8070. Just browse our Library of Favorite Floor Plans, or send us a plan ... of ranch and two story homes. All homes must be at least 1500 sq ft. Well and septic sites [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 12:30:26

Live Blogging from the 2009 Edmonton Housing Forecast Seminar

Sheldon, Nathan, Derek, Lisa and I (and over 800 other people) ... roofs, open floor plans, geometric shapes) and Mediterranean (stucco, tile roofs, grand entries ... , Chair of the Home Builders Association talked about trends in home design: The three hottest styles [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 22:55:00

Live from the universal Builders’ Show: World’s First Pellet Fireplace

Live from the universal Builders’ Show: World’s First Pellet Fireplace January 20th, 2009 | Category: ... efficiency and for maximum heat. Original post by Cameron Snyder building plans book cable home security home theater aquarium stand kitchen projects www diy table stores home tube amp planner screen pc midi [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 21:53:00

An Affordable Shortcut To Designing Your Dream Home

You have likely been making mental notes for years ... plans from which a builder can work: 1.Hire an architect 2.Make alterations to an existing house plan ... does not come cheap. An economical compromise is to modify existing new house plans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 20:19:17

The Truro Residence by ZeroEnergy Design

ZeroEnergy Design, together with Silvia and Silvia Custom Home Builders, have created this contemporary house in Truro, Massachusetts ... was that they had some unusual space requirements, a narrow lot on an environmentally sensitive site ... . They normally reside in downtown Boston, but plan to spend their summers and weekends on the Cape. While [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 10:19:25

Frugal Millionaires on Investing and Mortgages

Here's an excerpt from the book The Frugal Millionaires: 70 millionaires anonymously share their ideas about money to help each other and you ... to get out of the market. When everyone was a part time speculative home builder in the early 2000’s it should ... screaming, “Oh God, I have too much of my money in cash!” Hope for the best but plan for the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 19:58:59

Friday morning links

TOP STORIES Single-Family Home Starts in U.S. Fall to 26-Year Low - Bloomberg Buffett says he's buying U.S ... ? - Reuters Home Builder Confidence Sets Record Low in October - HousingWire FED/TREASURY/BANKING Rate ... Tight to Bailout Money - NY Times INTERNATIONAL Pension plans show worst quarterly drop in decade [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 12:51:00

Things to Know about Systems Built Modular Homes

Things to Know about Systems Built Modular Homes Modular building has gotten a steady flow press in recent years, thanks, in no small part, ... to finished product and then set in place at your jobsite. “Floor treatments, framing, insulation ... natural service to help advise you thought the process of selecting a plan, builder and plant try [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 17:12:25

Homestead: Cali Greens at Keys Gate-S.K. Constructio

Occasionally, a new home project comes along that offers a traditional neighborhood feel in the midst of a rapidly growing community and on the edge ... Construction, Keys Gate’s premier builder, Cali Greens’ two-story townhomes include six different floor plans that can be personalized with hundreds of options. Builder incentives available. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 22:20:03

Live Your Dreams!

Isn't it time to start living your dreams? What do you hope for? ... ! 1. Your own profitable home-based business 2. The time and money to put family first 3. Working ... and the best way to build your business. Our Dual Team-Builder Plan creates a natural support system [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 23:48:30

Help Wanted: Bloggers, Weekend Warriors, Builders, Engineers, Internet Fanatics - Apply Within

In June of 2007 I created a blog on Wordpress called the Constant Craftsman. The idea was to (1) ... for Craftsman house plans and other notable home improvement blog entries worth mentioning, created ... chronicle the ups and downs of renovating my 1926 Dutch Colonial home and (2) focus on the niche [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 06:54:50

Life in Palm Valley - Goodyear AZ

Camelot Homes , the #1 ranked Arizona small volume builder (by Ranking Arizona) ... Scottsdale, consists of four, three- to five-bedroom floor plans boasting California, Ranch Hacienda ... Villas at Desert Camp Courtyards at DC Ranch Peoria AZ Canyon’s Edge - Sonoran Mountain Ranch [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 18:45:46

Home Remodeling: Super Low Bid a Reason to Question Contractor Further

Kathy Maynard Sacramento Bee Q: We want to remodel our kitchen and have collected estimates from remodeling contractors and a custom home builder ... A: There can be many reasons for differences in estimates, but if all the contractors bid on the same plans [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 18:07:24

San Antonio Realty News You Can Use

From the Builder Housing Forecast:  new home starts in SA down to 8700 for ’08 ... Virginia and South Dakota exceeded Texas. Lackland AFB is gaining 363 new single-family and duplex units.  Developer plans to invest $142 million in the new housing starting this spring Randall [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:14:24

Rhetorical Questions on a Thursday Night

avatarthumbnail.jpg Today I spent six-plus hours showing homes in Arrowhead Ranch and, frankly, ... and New York? 9) Why did so many builders not include coat closets in their floor plans? 10) Any [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 02:39:10

Builders: $5.5 Billion in Losses

from sddt.com The national publicly traded homebuilders continue to bleed red ink and their San Diego-area projects are doing little to help ... in five-bedroom floor plans. Nationally, Lennar reported a 36 percent decline in home deliveries ... tough things were even before the fourth quarter started was Lennar’s Eaglepointe @ Sky Ranch [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 02:51:56

Local Market Observations!

What do you see in your housing market this weekend? Builder incentives? “D.R ... All Square neighborhoods are gated and feature floor plans from 1,071 to 1,400 square feet with two ... home, a duplex in south Harrisonburg. For the Hartins, who have been married for two years [more...]

Date: 2008-06-28 17:02:59

King's Crossing land has lay fallow for nearly a year

New builder to tackle project on Wikle RoadThe TennesseanBRENTWOOD — Norfolk Homes out of Ann Arbor, Mich ... from 3,000 to about 4,500 square feet, with prices from the $600,000s to $1 million."Our plans will be informal for the most part with European, Tuscan and somewhat Southwestern styles," Belew said [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 21:54:00

New Homes in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the capital city of Georgia and had a 2006 population of 486,411 residents. In 2000, the city had 168,147 households with a 43 ... baths. Every floor plan offers a 2-car garage. This new home community is close to shopping, dining ... as 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. Homeland Communities is a ranch, single-family and townhome builder [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 06:13:28

Favorite SD Builder

From sddt.com Del Mar-based Davidson Communities closed 81 homes in five neighborhoods in 2008, according to Cynthia Monaco, ... . Atrium at EastLake Vistas floor plans are from 3,750 to 4,281 square feet with four to five bedrooms, 4.5 ... by Dahlin Group Architecture, four floor plans are available from 2,823 to 4,601 square feet. Scripps [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:50:11

NASA Administrator Building his dream home

Just imagine a post-NASA Mike Griffin building his retirement dream home.First, take all the plans you've paid competing architects to devise to meet your stated needs ... decreeing the size and shape of the shell of the house and choosing a builder, mandate on said builder [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 06:45:00

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