- America’s Best Housing Markets
- Forbes.com just released its latest report on the Best Housing Markets in the country. Three Texas markets top list primarily because of jobs stability, which drives housing stability.
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- How to Build a Custom Home
- Building a Custom Home is a detailed process with many decisions along the road to completion. The following steps are typical when building a custom home and are for informational purposes only.
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- Little Satilla Island Named Best Island Retirement Community
- On February 26, 2010 Best Retirement Destinations release their list of best island retirement communities. #18 on the list this year is Little Satilla Island, a Bluegreen Community, located near St. Simons Island, GA.
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- Home Builder Confidence Rises in February
- It looks like the United States housing market is improving, which is a good thing. The NAHB is citing “favorable home buying conditions and signs of healing in the job market” upon release of the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) that was just released recently. This favorable news about the housing [...]
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- The Low-Down on Home Construction Insurance
- If you are going to build a home in one of our master planned communities, you will need to purchase home construction insurance. There are generally three different types of home construction insurance. All lenders require that you carry the first two types of home construction insurance, “Course of Construction” insurance, and General Liability insurance. [...]
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- Four Questions to Ask Your Home Construction Loan Officer
- Most likely, if you purchase land in one of our master planned communities and plan on building a home, you are going to need to get a home construction loan. There are many lenders out there that will give you a home construction loan. But how do you know if the lender who you’re going [...]
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- Why Home Construction Loan Rates Aren’t Published
- If you are thinking of building your dream home on the perfect piece of land, like property in one of our communities, there is a good chance that you will need a home construction loan. There are a lot of lenders out there who do home construction loans. So why aren’t construction loan rates published [...]
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- Top 10 Real Estate Blog Posts of 2009
- Here we are, right at the end of 2009, and in retrospect, a lot has happened in the real estate industry this year. But there has also been a lot that has not happened this year. Weren’t we expecting the economy and the real estate industry to start turning around this year? I took a [...]
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- Understanding the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives Program
- Because the US has been having trouble in the housing and real estate markets, the United States Government has taken steps to make homes more affordable. For instance, we recently talked about how the US Government has given home buyers tax credits and their extension of that successful program. They’ve also taken steps to help [...]
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- Building on Your Own Land? There’s a Tax Credit for That!
- Are you thinking of building on the land that you already own? You may be able to qualify for the first home buyer’s tax credit of $8,000 or possibly the $6,500 tax credit for home buyers. When the home buyer tax credit was signed into law and then extended until April 30, 2010, the United States [...]
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