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We’re thrilled to announce that we’re building a new phase of homes in the highly sought-after Southern Hills community. These single-family homes range from 1,683 to 2,775 square feet and feature up to 3 bedrooms and a 3-car garage.
Nestled amongst rolling hills and live oak trees along a Championship Pete Dye golf course in Brooksville, the views are breathtaking and the amenities are enough to keep even the most active residents busy.
Here are a few reasons you’ll want to call the Southern Hills community home:
Location, Location, Location
Set in the quaint town of Brooksville, Southern Hills provides easy access to both Tampa and Orlando. This unique positioning is perfect for enjoying modern conveniences like shopping, dining, and entertainment while escaping the bustling city and traffic.
Country-Club Lifestyle with Luxury Amenities
When living here, enjoy the following unbeatable amenities:
Everything’s Included® Homes
The new homes for sale in Southern Hills are part of Lennar’s Everything’s Included® program. Each home comes fully equipped with stainless steel GE® appliances and elegant finishes such as granite countertops, ceramic tile floors and more.
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Black Diamond, WA – February 2019 – Lennar Seattle celebrated a wildly successful Grand Opening event last month where they unveiled their Model Home Showplex at Ten trails. More than 400 people came out for the festivities and to view the never-before-seen model homes.
“We could not have been more thrilled with the incredible turnout and feedback we received on our models,” said Bill Salvesen, Division President of Lennar Seattle. “Our Model Home Showplex is now open seven days a week, so we encourage everyone in the market for a new home to stop by and check out this incredible community.”
The eight models showcase a variety of available home designs now selling from Lennar’s East Village Collection at Ten Trails. The collection offers 12 home plans in total, which range in size from approximately 2,350 to 3,862 square feet with four to five bedrooms, two and one-half to four bathrooms and Everything’s Included® features and upgrades that come at no additional cost.
At Ten Trails, home shoppers are able to purchase one of Lennar’s revolutionary Next Gen® – The Home Within A Home® designs in the Bainbridge plan. Designed for multigenerational living at its finest, it features an attached suite with its own separate entrance, living room, bedroom, full bathroom and kitchenette.
Every new Lennar home at Ten Trails is a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ home design, featuring built-in wireless access points throughout the home to provide strong consistent coverage in every room. In addition, every new home in Ten Trails will receive 1 GB of fiber optic high speed internet which can be accessed anywhere throughout the new neighborhoods.
Every new Lennar home also comes complete with the homebuilder’s signature Everything’s Included® program, which provides items like quartz or granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, integrated home automation and more at no additional cost.
The model homes are now open seven days a week at the Lennar Welcome Home Center at Ten Trails, located at 32301 SE 236th Avenue in Black Diamond. For more information visit www.lennar.com/seattle.
About Lennar
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation’s leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar’s Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title insurance and closing services for both buyers of Lennar’s homes and others. Lennar’s Rialto segment is a vertically integrated asset management platform focused on investing throughout the commercial real estate capital structure. Lennar’s Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. Previous press releases and further information about Lennar may be obtained at the “Investor Relations” section of Lennar’s website, www.lennar.com.
Affordability continues to concern many home buyers in the market. However, Meyers Research principal Mollie Carmichael advises that if you can afford a home, its time to buy. Learn more in this BUILDER article by Scott Sowers.
Despite industry worries over slowing home sales, builders have many reasons to feel optimistic about 2019, according to a new Meyers Research analysis. “It’s really a confusing time, so many people are asking what’s going on, particularly in that fourth quarter of last year,” says Meyers Research principal Mollie Carmichael, referring in part to declining builder confidence numbers and end-of-the-year stock market volatility.
“We’re seeing news headlines that are scaring consumers,” she said in a recent live webcast focused on the Meyers Research & Metrostudy 2019 Consumer Sentiment Survey of more than 20,000 new-home shoppers. “Existing home sales are a little down year over year from 2018 to 2017, but we also had a tremendous 2017.”
Her take on the U.S. economy shows a recovery with no indication of stopping. “The good news is we’re about five months away from the strongest recovery ever,” said Carmichael. “We’re looking at another year or two of strength. Consumer spending for the most part is very strong, which is usually a lagging indicator.”
Despite these positive indications, many forces could put a drag on the economy and home building this year, including interest rates, tariffs, the labor shortage, and trade wars. Here is a roundup of Carmichael’s economic and consumer trends to watch:
Affordability. In many big markets, tight housing inventory is forcing prices up and buyers out. “When we look at months of supply, it’s anemic. It’s very low, and that’s part of the problem, that lack of choices out there,” says Carmichael. “Low supply is pushing prices up. But we do have some markets that have not hit peak pricing so there’s still some opportunity out there,” she says.
Southern California currently is the least affordable place to live while the Southeast and Idaho rank high for affordability. “We need price points below $500,000,” she says. “Focusing on that is a huge part of 2019 to 2020.”
Carmichael also sees choke points in hot real estate markets that are dealing with an influx of residents and not enough housing. “Most of the growth is heading into the West and that’s great. When we look at where affordability is, that’s where it’s not so great,” she says. “That’s where affordability is most challenged.”
Size Matters. The survey revealed the continued growth of multigenerational households and a shift toward smaller floor plans. “The most important home features are interior styling and curb appeal–it’s not about size,” says Carmichael. “We have to get better at design to get to the price point that consumers want. We have to be better at figuring out how to get that 1,500 square feet to feel like 2,000 square feet, and 2,500 square feet to feel like 3,000 square feet.”
Purchasing Power. Carmichael noted that women are the dominant force in today’s home-buying world. Recent numbers show that they represent 51% of the nation’s wealth. One in five homes today is owned by a single woman, and 92% of all home sales are led by women, according to Carmichael, who says of a hypothetical female buyer: “She is focused on how the home lives for her and her family.”
Mortgage Rates. Carmichael believes concerns about rising mortgage rates may be overblown. “We’ve seen so much elasticity, over the past few years rates go up but then they just come down,” she says.
While noting that just a 1% interest rate increase equates to 12% in lost affordability, she points out that mortgage applications were up in January. “We think interest rates are going to stay low through the spring selling season, so that’s good news,” she says.
Unemployment. The country’s ultra-low unemployment rate continues to be a bright spot. “Employees aren’t afraid of losing their jobs,” she says, “so they’re feeling very confident about their employment.”
High Prices. To get an artificial intelligence-based take on consumer sentiment, study leaders fed data from the survey to IBM’s Watson computer system. When Watson was asked to refine what most people said about the main reason for not buying homes the answer was, “the market is just too high.” When the machine was asked to collate the most popular responses for buying a home, the answer was, “If you can afford it, do it.”
Irvine, Calif. – February 2019 – Lennar’s Windchime and Obsidian communities at Parasol Park are down to their final homes, which means it’s your last chance to own a brand-new, Everything’s Included® home in this family-friendly masterplan set within the desirable Great Park Neighborhoods in Irvine. With a great selection of unique single-family homes and townhomes left to choose from, including two model homes at Obsidian, families of every type can find a home they will love. But interested home shoppers are encouraged to act fast because homes won’t last long!
“Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to own a new Lennar home in a sought-after masterplan with all the features you want already included,” said Janet Price, Marketing Director for Lennar Cal Coastal. “In addition to beautiful homes, Parasol Park offers residents an incredible lifestyle with a wide range of amenities available right in your backyard, plus families will love that award-winning Irvine schools are within walking distance.”
Obsidian offers luxury, three-story single-family homes starting from the upper $1.1 millions, but only a handful remain. There’s one last Residence 1 home available offering approximately 2,897 square feet of living space including four bedrooms and three and one-half bathrooms. There’s also the Residence 2 model home that boasts 2,949 square feet of living space, four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a host of exclusive upgrades just for the model. The remaining homes showcase the Residence 3 design offering approximately 3,036 square feet of living space including three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The Residence 3 model home is available too—it’s completely turnkey and boasts design details and features that are exclusive to models.
These new homes showcase unique plans that live like a single-story home with an elevator included for easy access to all three levels. Experience multiple outdoor living spaces, from first-floor patios to second- and third-story decks, spacious secondary bedrooms for the kids, open living areas with upscale kitchens, expansive master suites and versatile bonus rooms and lofts.
Windchime offer stylish three-story townhomes starting from the low $800,000s, but only five remain. There’s one Residence 2 home offering approximately 1,947 square feet with three bedrooms and three and one-half bathrooms. The remaining four showcase the Residence 3 design offering approximately 1,981 square feet of living space including three bedrooms and three and one-half bathrooms. New homes showcase modern designs with open layouts for easy entertaining, gourmet kitchens, sophisticated master suites, spacious secondary bedrooms, first-floor bedrooms and outdoor living areas.
In addition, Lennar’s signature Everything’s Included® program includes today’s most popular features and upgrades as standard in each new home—all at no additional cost. Enjoy appointments such as stainless steel appliances with refrigerator, beautiful cabinetry, exquisite countertops and much more.
Parasol Park is a close-knit community where you can live and play with exciting amenities and open space available throughout the neighborhood to encourage residents to get out and connect. There’s a community greenhouse and garden, outdoor kitchen, playground, park and multipurpose court. Residents also have access to amenities from other communities within the Great Park Neighborhoods masterplan including those at Beacon Park, Pavilion Park and Cadence Park, plus the amenities of future parks.
Model and production home tours are available by appointment only. Prospective home shoppers are encouraged to stop by the Cadence Park Welcome Home Center located at 129 Spiral within the Cadence Park neighborhood or call 949-234-7880 to schedule a tour by phone. For more information about our other communities, visit www.lennar.com/OrangeCounty.
About Lennar
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation’s leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar’s Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title insurance and closing services for both buyers of Lennar’s homes and others. Lennar’s Rialto segment is a vertically integrated asset management platform focused on investing throughout the commercial real estate capital structure. Lennar’s Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. Previous press releases and further information about Lennar may be obtained at the “Investor Relations” section of Lennar’s website, www.lennar.com.
