Buying, selling, financing, and furnishing your new home is a fun and exciting challenge. Look at the articles, columns, blog posts, radio shows and videos for advice on new construction home building. With these helpful home construction tips, building a new home is a whole lot easier.
A Few Simple Things You Can Do To Improve Your Construction Or Remodeling Project
Home renovation or new construction projects can be rock and full of unexpected turns. Being the general contractor of your home renovation project can be a full time job. Despite the inevitable frustrations, there are things you can do to make your renovation flow more easily.
Merchandising Your Dream New House
Developers often will hire a focus group to identify which kind of home buyers the subdivision will attract. They will then put up a model home or two in order to show prospective home buyers what a new subdivision will look and feel like when complete. Finally, they'll spend anywhere from $25,000 to $75,000 or more to merchandise those homes in order to attract a certain home buyer.
What Buyers Should Think About Before Building A New Home
Thinking about buying a brand new home? With the fire-hot pace of home sales burning through developer's inventories, you may find it tough to buy the exact home you want at a price you can afford. Theinventory of model homes and speculative homes is dwindling, and that means prices could rise. One of the problems with raising prices is that fewer people will be able to afford to buy new construction, particularly first-time buyers.
Green Real Estate Developments
Green real estate is about looking at environmental issues as opportunities to make better places for people. Green real estate is residential, commercial and industrial developments where preservation of nature and the environment has been a high priority.
Bill Proposes Automatic Cancellation Of PMI
Private mortgage insurance (PMI) is one of those necessary expenses if you plan to buy a home with less than 20 percent down in cash. But recent action by Congress may end the practice of letting PMI go on indefinitely, even after the equity on the loan has grown to more than 20 percent, unless the borrower takes steps to cancel the policy.
Trends From The Home Builders Convention: Part 2
Building a home? The National Home Builders Convention is the place to be if you are interested in home building and the real estate industry. It's where you'll find more home builders and more building supplies vendors - literally - than anywhere else in the world. The big findings at the show were stainless steel appliances, copper roofing, stone accessories, swimming fitness equipment and water filtration systems.