From the monthly archives:

May 2011

Lennar Is Staking Its Claim In Charlotte Area

May 31, 2011
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Tweet Lennar Corp. is suddenly on the offensive in Charlotte and making a bet that now is the time to buy residential lots. The Miami-based home builder has announced six new communities in the market in as many months, purchasing or putting under contract nearly 600 lots in neighborhoods in Charlotte, Cornelius, Gastonia, Mooresville and [...]

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Home Automation Is Part of Lennar’s “Everything’s Included” Homes at Sendera Ranch in Dallas

May 31, 2011
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Tweet Lennar is once again raising the bar in the homebuilding industry with “the next generation of living” and the new Everything’s Included Home. Recently, Lennar has teamed up with Schlage ®, a world leader in home security, to provide state-of-the-art systems integrated into the entire home. This all-new Lennar Home Automation System is included [...]

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San Marcos, California: Lennar To Grand Open Belmont In San Elijo Hills On June 4th

May 31, 2011
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Tweet Lennar is gearing up for the Grand Opening of their brand-new detached community, Belmont in San Elijo Hills on June 4th, where starting prices are expected to begin from the upper 300,000’s. The three and four bedroom homes offer 1,447 to 2,093 square feet, two and a half baths and present stunning views of [...]

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Contractors Gather Supplies For Midwest Tornado Victims

May 31, 2011
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Tweet Lennar’s California Coastal Division, Kana Pipeline and a host of other trade partners, suppliers and consultants gathered on Friday, May 27, at Lennar’s West Corporate Headquarters office in Aliso Viejo to bring a collection of food/supplies to deliver goods to the most impacted areas of the recent tornado victims of the Midwest. Lennar included [...]

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Cobb County, Georgia: Hopeful Housing Indications In Cobb

May 31, 2011
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Tweet The new home market is looking up in Cobb County. Rob Hosack, of the county’s community development office, stated that building permits issued in Cobb during March 2011 increased 50 percent compared to March 2010. Combine this with another recent story by Janel Davis in the AJC titled “Cobb projects signal upswing,” and you [...]

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Low Down Payment And No Mello Roos At Lennar’s The Ridge In Mission Viejo

May 31, 2011
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Tweet The newly opened homes at The Ridge in Mission Viejo not only offer luxury townhomes within a desirable location, but for a limited time, all buyers can receive incredible financing programs such as 10% down with no monthly insurance through Lennar’s preferred lender and no additional Mello-roos fees. “We listened to what our buyers [...]

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Lennar Atlanta: Beautiful Suwanee New Homes At Laurel Heights

May 31, 2011
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Tweet Lennar Atlanta’s newest community, Laurel Heights, has proven to be exactly what buyers are looking for in Atlanta real estate. This community is located in beautiful Suwanee, Ga., and gives homeowners the benefit of low Forsyth County taxes. Commuters have quick access to Georgia 400 and other major roads. Laurel Heights is also convenient [...]

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10 Markets With Fastest-Rising Real Estate Prices

May 26, 2011
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Tweet Southern metro areas dominated a list of the 10 markets with the biggest year-over-year increases in median list price in April, according to monthly data released this week by Realtor.com. The data considers 146 metro areas nationwide. Two Florida markets saw the highest jumps: median list price in Fort Myers-Cape Coral rose 25.7 percent [...]

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Investors Ready To Heat Up The Housing Market: Move Inc.

May 26, 2011
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Tweet More investors are bullish about home prices in the coming year and are beginning to aggressively hunt for residential real estate investments in their own backyards, according to a new survey conducted by Move Inc. The firm’s real estate investor survey found 22% of investors are bullish about home prices going up in the [...]

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NAHB: Housing Affordability Hits 20-Year High

May 26, 2011
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Tweet Nationwide housing affordability during the first quarter of 2011 rose to its highest level in the more than 20 years it has been measured, according to National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index (HOI) data. The HOI indicated that 74.6 percent of all new and existing homes sold in the first quarter of [...]

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