Articles in the Building Your Home Category
Building Your Home, Selling Tips, Staying On Top
With great homebuilders, immediate deliveries, and an amazing community Owners Club, it’s always a good idea to bring your clients to Highland Woods when they are looking for a new home. We have a few offers currently available that sweeten the visit even more:
First Welcome Gift*
We love when you bring clients to visit new homes at Highland Woods. And we want to help make your visit even sweeter. In April, show your clients a new Highland Woods home, and we will give both you and your clients a sweet little …
Building Your Home, Featured Builder
A new designer home is being built at Highland Woods in Elgin, IL by John Hall Homes. The Highland II, a 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home, is currently under construction and will be completed in April. We’ve been documenting the construction, and we put together this video to show the beautiful home coming together. Check it out:
This 3,132 square foot home includes 4 bedrooms, 3 1⁄2 baths, 3-car side-load garage, custom gourmet kitchen with walk-in pantry and spacious two-story family room with custom stone fireplace. The home is available for …
Building Your Home, Staying On Top
Two new designer homes are under construction at Highland Woods in Elgin. The homes are beautiful, spacious, and perfect for your clients who are looking to purchase homes in the mid $400s. Floorplans for both homes are below.
Building Your Home
We are excited to announce that we’ve broken ground on The Belvedere, a new designer home by DeMarco Custom Homes. The home is a 5 bedroom, 4 bathroom home with a library and a 3 car side-load garage. The full 9′ basement includes a roughed-in bathroom. The home will be over 3,000 square feet when completed.
This lot is spectacular—over-sized, and located adjacent to a bike path. Delivery is planned for Spring 2013. This beautiful custom home is priced at $449,900.
Check out a picture of the broken ground!
Make an appointment to …
Building Your Home, Selling Tips
Trulia just posted an interesting blog about why it is smart for homebuyers to close escrow by the end of the year. We’ve summarized a few of their points below, but you can also click for the full article. These are worth sharing with some of your current homebuying clients!
1. Reduced Competition. Summer months are over, which means less people are out shopping for homes. A lot of families shop over the summer, with the change of school seasons, the good weather, and the time off from work. Also, the …
Building Your Home, Selling Tips
HomeGain recently released the results of their 2012 National Home Ownership Satisfaction Survey. Over 1,400 homeowners were asked about their satisfaction with owning a home and price appreciation or depreciation.
Results were interesting:
72% were satisfied with owning a home
24% of satisfied homeowners said price appreciation was the primary reason for satisfaction, with the remainder listing other reasons for satisfaction
Other reasons for satisfaction included pride of ownership and freedom to control home improvements and upgrades.
Homeowners who purchased within the last three years were most satisfied
Of the 28% of unsatisfied homeowners, …
Building Your Home
We are excited to offer you a virtual video tour of our impressively built designer homes available at Highland Woods in Elgin.
DeMarco Custom Homes, NOW SOLD
Pricing: $459,900
Square Footage: 3,420 sq. ft.
Beds/Bath: 4 bed/4 full baths plus roughed-in bath in basement
Garage: 3 car side-load
Exterior: Charming brick/stone exterior
Overstreet Custom Homebuilders, Lot 470
Pricing: NOW $419,900 (WAS $444,900)
Square Footage: 3342 sq. ft
Beds/Bath: 4 bed, 3.5 bath plus roughed bath in basement
Garage: 3 car
Exterior: Traditional full brick front
John Hall Custom Homes, Lot 469
Pricing: $479,000
Square Footage: 3591 sq. ft.
Beds/Bath: 4 bed/3.5 bath plus roughed bath in …
Building Your Home, Featured Builder
A lot happened at Highland Woods during 2011, but what stands out as a highlight is the construction of three incredible designer homes. The homes are available for the $400s, in the beautiful Graystone neighborhood.
And not only are they completed with impressive finishes and floorplans that are easy to imagine your family living in, but lucky homebuyers will have access to all the amenities of Highland Woods, including parks, walking paths, and the Owners Club. The Owners Club gives homeowners exclusive access to a fitness center, water park, courts for …
Building Your Home, Staying On Top
We are pleased to bring three new custom homes to Highland Woods in Elgin that are all priced in the $400s. The homes are scheduled for delivery in the fall, and construction progress to date shows the homes are moving right along. The brochures for the homes are now available for your homebuyers who are looking for luxurious new homes priced in the $400s in the Chicagoland area.
Read more about each home:
The Richmond by Overstreet Custom Homebuilders
$434,900
4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths
3 car garage
3,342 square feet
Download the brochure.
The Geneva by DeMarco Custom …
Building Your Home, Featured Builder, Selling Tips
DeMarco Custom Homes has broken ground with “The Geneva”, a newly designed plan in his portfolio of beautiful homes. It will be available for delivery in the fall. Priced at $459,900, this home has more to it than most newly built homes—everything about this spec home is about quality. DeMarco takes great care to build using quality materials and designs so you not only have a beautiful, spacious family home, but one that will be low maintenance and will last.
The foundation on this spec home has been poured, and it …
