Best Ways to Attract Active Adult Buyers

Builder Online recently interviewed Epcon Communities, who started building homes for active adults in 1986. They shared an interesting viewpoint – it’s not what these home have that matters to this demographic, it’s actually what they don’t have. Boomers are attracted to low-maintenance neighborhoods and one-story...

Do Consumers Prefer New Homes to Existing?

Builder Online says yes, naming larger closets, open floor plans, and roomy kitchen islands seen as big draws. Ironically, according to a new survey from Trulia, twice as many American consumers prefer a newly built home but are reluctant to pay extra for new. Forty-one percent of...

From Formal to Functional

Location used to be the number one reason people chose their new home. Today home design ties in importance . Move-up and luxury homebuyers of today are done with formal; they now see elegance in functionality. Formal dining rooms make way to a flex space that could...