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Covington, Wash. – May 2018 – Maple Hills is down to its final few homes with a handful that are move-in ready for homeshoppers looking to make their move. These homes are built by CalAtlantic, a Lennar company and offer a gorgeous variety of new home designs perfect for growing families.
“These are the final homes in this premier community that will be CalAtlantic, our new phase will be Lennar and offer our signature Everything’s Included® program for added value, style and ease for homebuyers,” said Bill Salvesen, Division President for Lennar Seattle. “We have three model homes that showcase the available floorplans left and encourage homeshoppers to stop by and discover these gorgeous home designs.”
The remaining CalAtlantic homes are available in three beautiful floorplan designs that range from 2,703 to 3,081 square feet of living space. These new residences offer up to four bedrooms and three bathrooms, ideal for growing families or busy households, and also feature large bonus rooms, open-concept living spaces, gourmet kitchens and expansive master suites.
Lennar’s upcoming phase release at Maple Hills is now accepting VIP homesite reservations, providing homeshoppers with the opportunity to claim their preferred homesite and home design before the rush of the Grand Opening. This phase will offer nine distinctive floorplans that range in size from 2,703 to 3,081 square feet and feature Lennar’s signature Everything’s Included® program. Everything’s Included® incorporates a high level of standard features in every new Lennar home at no additional cost, including stainless steel appliances, granite or quartz kitchen countertops and the latest in home automation technology, powered by Amazon Alexa.
Eager homeshoppesr should act quickly to find their new home that’s move-in ready. The next phase will Grand Open new model homes on Saturday, August 11.
Maple Hills is located 25632 206th Avenue SE in Covington. Visit www.lennar.com/seattle or call 855-325-1502 to schedule your tour today.
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.
El Dorado Hills, Calif. – May 2018 – Laurelton at Blackstone is down to its final few homes for sale, with a gorgeous model home that’s now selling and showcases highly-upgraded features and a great location. Sitauted in the upscale Blackstone masterplan in El Dorado Hills, Laurelton is a new home community by leading homebuilder CalAtlantic Homes, a Lennar company.
“This gorgeous model home showcases impeccable design and gives access to luxurious amenities that residents can take advantage of, just steps outside their new front door,” said Michelle Velky, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Lennar Sacramento. “This residence features designer-selected custom elements throughout that offer a stylish, elevated and lavish lifestyle opportunity. Interested homeshoppers should act fast before this model home is gone!”
The Residence Three plan is accented in a striking Spanish Colonial elevation, this home boasts an ideal layout for those who love to entertain. Providing 4,226 square feet of living space that encompasses four bedrooms, four bathrooms and a three-bay garage, this two-story home also features other elevated design and architectural details.
The Residence Three entryway leads to a grand spiral staircase and spacious great room with designer cabinetry, beamed ceilings, a home management area and a beautiful chandelier that opens into the high-end chef’s kitchen. Slider doors open to the California room for an enhanced open space that lends itself to indoor-outdoor living and entertaining. The master suite is complete with a private retreat area and spa-inred bathroom.
Set within the exclusive Blackstone masterplan, residents of Laurelton enjoy incredible resort-inspired amenities. At the center of the community is The Club, a private activity center unlike any other. This 10,500-square foot facility offers three sparkling pools — one to relax in, one for swimming laps and a children’s wading pool, a steamy spa, large workout and exercise facility, children’s play room with large outdoor yard, a spacious multipurpose gathering area with attached kitchen and a cozy living room, outdoor living spaces and so much more! Laurelton’s close location near the El Dorado Hills Town Center also offers residents the convenience of being close to boutique shopping, premiere dining breathtaking scenic walking trails and top-notch boating, hiking and skiing.
National homebuilders Lennar and CalAtlantic have merged to combine forces, positioning the company as the leading homebuilder in the nation. CalAtlantic Homes has joined Lennar’s Family of Companies with a united vision of providing quality and value to families across the country as they move into the next stage of their lives with a new home.
Laurelton is located at 568 Idlewood Court. Call 916-905-1623, visit www.lennar.com/sacramento or email LennarSacramento@Lennar.com for more information.
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.
Lennar and Amazon have teamed up and recently announced the opening of interactive Amazon Experience Centers within select Lennar model homes across the United States, including the Tovero Community. Now customers in the area can experience first-hand the convenience of Alexa smart home experience and more in a real home environment. Learn more about Lennar’s connected homes and the future of smart home technology in this recent The Mercury News article by Rex Crum.
VALLEJO — From the outside, homebuilder Lennar’s model home in Vallejo could be any other house in a new suburban development. But that’s where the similarities end and the future begins, courtesy of a new smart-home partnership with Amazon.
This week, Amazon and Lennar began showing off what they are calling the Amazon Experience Center, a pre-wired, voice-activated smart home at a North Bay Lennar housing development, along with similar model homes in seven other locations across the country.
Lennar — one of the nation’s largest homebuilders — plans to build Amazon’s Alexa voice-assistant technology into the design when constructing all of its houses nationwide from now on. Because of the partnership with Amazon, this technology package will come standard and will not add anything to the base cost of the home. Alexa will be able to handle many of the mundane, everyday tasks that those who buy the developer’s homes currently do on their own.
Talk to Alexa and, thanks to the Amazon Echo devices that are standard with the house, you can close your shades, find a movie to watch via Amazon Prime — and the Amazon Fire TV that comes with the home — schedule automatic orders of household goods, or order those things directly by using the Amazon Dash buttons that also come standard with the home. Finally, you can lock your doors and set your thermostat as you turn in for the night.
Technology that handles such chores isn’t new; Amazon, Google and Apple have offered voice-command assistant technology for years. But a home built from the ground up with a full suite of one company’s home-control technology takes the concept to another level. And while Alexa — or any other kind of voice-command platform — offers convenience, the Lennar-Amazon connected-home model presents a slate of questions about just how much control one company can and should have over an individual’s daily routines, habits and privacy.
“This definitely takes the ‘everything store’ to another level, delivering not just products, but nearly every service one could need in a given day,” said Gene Munster, partner with tech research firm Loup Ventures. “A wholesale upgrade to a fully smart home gives Amazon a lot of power over whoever lives there. Each incremental smart device you control with Alexa is another touch point for the Amazon brand and makes Prime a little more difficult to leave.”
During a tour of the Amazon Experience Center home in Vallejo, Tom Burrill, Lennar’s Bay Area division president, said that for some, facing such new technologies in the home “can be intimidating,” but that seeing the devices in a home setting can alleviate worries about how everything works together.
Continue reading the full article HERE.
If you’ve been in your Lennar home a while now, the clutter may have begun to accumulate and feel overwhelming. But believe it or not, it’s still possible to get your home back in shape, just the way that you bought it.
With these 3 easy tips, your home will look brand new in no time!
One way to de-clutter your home while also doing a good deed is to go through your items and see what can be donated. Items like clothing, gadgets and decorations can easily accumulate over the years and sometimes may be used only a few times before just taking up valuable space. Instead of throwing those items away, find a local non-profit organization that collect donations for a good cause.
You can also recycle certain items made of paper or plastic.
With either option, you can decrease the clutter of your home, reduce the stress it brings and know you’ve helped give back to the greater good.
Maybe you have more than just a few items that need to be sorted. Maybe there are several rooms in your home that need some work. No worries, just take a deep breath and create a schedule.
It might not be realistic for you to declutter your entire home in one day. However, how about decluttering one space at a time?
Figure out what works for your lifestyle and your schedule and coordinate accordingly. Start with the areas where you spend the most time and which are frequented the most by guests, i.e. the living room, kitchen, foyer, staircase, etc. After you’ve organized the main areas, prioritize, one by one, the bedrooms, bathrooms and other areas needing a refresher.
Whether we realize it or not, we are exposed to enormous amounts of marketing and solicitation on any given day. Be it a radio ad, television commercial, magazine cover or the logo on someone’s shirt, we are constantly marketed to. Sometimes the things that we are exposed to subconsciously influence us to buy on impulse.
How many items do you have lying around your house that you’ve only used once or twice? Getting out of this habit can simultaneously save money while also saving space in your home.
When shopping, make a list of the items that you know you are looking for and are prepared to buy. When you are distracted by something that is not on that list, think about its purpose and consider if it is a true necessity or a want. Instead of buying it at that moment, get the things on your list first and go home to think about the extra items you wanted to buy. More than likely, by the time you go back to that store, the item will have left your mind or lost at least some of its appeal.
Your Lennar home should be a safe haven and a retreat. Leave the stresses of the day outside and use s
ome of these simple steps to remove clutter from your house and ultimately, your mind.
Fresno, Calif. – May 2018 – Lennar is excited to announce the Grand Opening event for the desirable Chateau Series of new home designs at the Carriage House community will be on Saturday, June 2. Prospective homeshoppers are invited to attend to tour three new beautifully-decorated model homes.
“We are so thrilled about this upcoming Grand Opening where homeshoppers can experience our new home designs, incredible Everything’s Included® features and explore this great community,” said Susan Wilke, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Lennar Central Valley. “We’ve brought some of our most popular floorplans here that showcase family-focused layouts and our new home automation products and technology.”
The Chateau Series offers homeshoppers five distinctive floorplans to choose from in both single and two-story designs. These homes range in size from approximately 1,766 to 3,167 square feet and provide three to five bedrooms and two to four bathrooms. Included in the series is the Camelot Next Gen® The Home Within A Home® design for multigenerational living. This unique home features a private suite with its own separate entrance, living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchenette.
Lennar is the first builder to offer Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ Home Designs. These new homes incorporate mapped out and built in wireless access points throughout the home that later provide uninterrupted internet coverage throughout every room in the home. Lennar’s signature Everything’s Included® program now offers the latest in home automation products and technology from today’s most trusted brands, providing homebuyers with a connected and modern living experience.
The Grand Opening will take place at the Welcome Home Center located at 6837 E. Redlands Avenue in Fresno, just off Armstrong and Dakota. For more information visit www.lennar.com/fresno or call (559) 554-1147.
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.
Saving for a down payment can be a challenge, imagine having to do so without a steady paycheck. This is a struggle many small business owners & freelancers face when embarking in their home buying journey. Learn more about the best practices to save for a home without a steady paycheck in this RealEstate.com article by Stefanie O’Connell.
Buying a home is a major money milestone and saving up a down payment can feel daunting. If you’re a freelancer, business owner or gig economy worker without a steady paycheck, saving up can be even more challenging.
Uneven cash flow and income fluctuations can make it hard to commit to regular savings transfers. And lean months may require you to withdraw money from savings to cover your bills, making it difficult to make meaningful progress toward your major savings goals.
Despite these challenges, saving up for a home is still possible for non-salaried workers. And it’s increasingly a reality for many individuals as the gig and freelance economy continues to grow.
So here are some best practices to keep in mind so you can commit to achieving your money milestone goals, like buying a home, regardless of the way you get paid.
Calculate how much home you can afford based on your freelance earnings. You might not know how much you’re going to make from month to month, but you do need to know how much money you can afford to pay toward a mortgage from month to month.
So sit down and take a look at your finances to figure out what consistent expenses you can commit to, even with your inconsistent income.
Once you figure out the monthly mortgage you can afford, you can get a sense of your housing price range and work from there to calculate how much you’ll need for a down payment.
Keep in mind that as an independent contractor, a bigger down payment may improve your chances of getting approved for a home loan. So consider homes where you can put down a greater portion of the purchase price.
Once you’ve set a savings goal for your home down payment, open up a dedicated savings account for these funds. Having money for your various savings needs in one place can make it tempting to withdraw the funds needed for your home down payment for other reasons — like a vacation or a smartphone upgrade.
Putting your down payment savings in a separate account can keep you on track as you build towards your savings goal and help put some distance between you and your money, so you’re not tempted to spend it impulsively elsewhere.
Labeling your dedicated home savings account can also help remind you what you’re saving for so that you stay motivated throughout the savings process.
Take your commitment a step further by setting up a recurring automatic transfer from your checking account to your home down payment savings account each week, so that you continue to make progress on your savings goal regardless of your cash flow for the month.
Set yourself up with a weekly salary by depositing a regular amount from your business account to your personal account every week or two, regardless of how much your business or freelance work actually brings in.
This can bring some consistency to your personal finances, and help when it comes time to apply for a mortgage by showing lenders a more regular income.
It might take some time to adjust your budget to the changes and figure out exactly what your salary should be, but giving yourself a regular “paycheck” can go a long way in helping you better plan your finances and get in the habit of saving for your major money goals – like your down payment.
Continue reading the full article HERE.
Lennar and Amazon have teamed up and recently announced the opening of interactive Amazon Experience Centers within select Lennar model homes across the United States, including Mountain Crest Community. Now customers in the area can experience first-hand the convenience of Alexa smart home experience and more in a real home environment. Learn more about Lennar’s connected homes and the future of smart home technology in this recent Curbed Atlanta article by Karon Warren.
In a new partnership designed to create a “smart home lifestyle,” Amazon and homebuilder Lennar have come together to launch Amazon Experience Centers, home communities outfitted with smart-home technology so residents can “live life with hands-free convenience,” according to Amazon.
Georgia’s first Amazon Experience Center is taking shape in Cumming in the Mountain Crestcommunity, which, when completed, will feature 674 homes divided up into different neighborhoods based on housing structure.
For instance, Stablegate is a collection of townhomes ranging from 2,300 square feet to 2,500 square feet, with prices in the high $200,000s.
In Bridlewood, ranch homes are available starting with 1,683 square feet and reaching 2,117 square feet, with pricing in the low $300,000s.
The Lennar real estate site doesn’t say much about the home’s building features, but instead focuses on the Amazon capabilities found within.
Every home will be outfitted with an entire suite of Amazon products, including an Echo Show (video screen), Echo Dot, Sonos One (wireless speaker), Baldwin Evolved Smart Lock, Honeywell Lyric Round Wi-Fi Thermostat 2.0, Lutron Smart Bridge Pro (smart shades, lights, etc.), Ring Video Doorbell, and Samsung Smartthings Hub.
Neighborhood amenities will include a large, chalet-chic clubhouse with Olympic-sized swimming pool, second splash pool with double-loop water slide, tennis and pickleball courts, enclosed children’s play park, and personal residence yard maintenance.
With 120 homes sold thus far, Amazon and Lennar say these offerings are geared toward the way people are living today.
“Homebuyers appreciate that the technology is built right in to the home so they can just move in and experience a new way of living,” says Casey Hill, Lennar’s division president for Atlanta. “Lennar is great at building homes, and Amazon is great at bringing them to life. We share an obsession for great customer experiences, so this is a natural fit.”
In fact, Hill says this approach will be the future of homebuilding for his company. “This is how Lennar will build homes going forward: designed for the way people live,” he says. “Our goal is to upgrade our buyers’ lives.”
While Lennar, and possibly Amazon, will continue to build homes outfitted with smart home technology, the real question is if and when other homebuilders will follow suit.
Could a potential partnership between Google and another homebuilder be on the horizon? Time will tell.
Lennar and Amazon have teamed up and recently announced the opening of interactive Amazon Experience Centers within select Lennar model homes across the United States, including Santori in Miami Lakes. Now customers in the area can experience first-hand the convenience of Alexa smart home experience and more in a real home environment. Learn more about Lennar’s connected homes and the future of smart home technology in this recent Miami Herald article by Rene Rodriguez.
Miami-based Lennar Corp., the largest builder of houses in the U.S., is betting new home buyers will want to live with an invisible roommate named Alexa.
On Wednesday, Lennar announced a partnership with online shopping giant Amazon that turns some of Lennar’s model homes into “Amazon Experience Centers” — showcases for smart-home products powered by Alexa, Amazon’s voice-activated digital assistant. The homes will be equipped with Echo Show and Echo Dot devices, wireless speakers, video doorbells and smart locks, thermostats and lights.
Fifteen Lennar model homes in 14 cities are now Amazon-branded, including two units — a single-family home and a townhouse — at the Satori gated community development at 16201 NW 87th Ct. in Miami Lakes.
The Satori development is comprised of 226 townhomes between 1,593-1,906 square feet; 222 executive estates from 2,187-3,162 square feet; and 34 presidential estates ranging from 2,530-4,105 square feet. Prices range from $360,000 to $800,000. The homes are built around a 67-acre lake. Lennar paid $74 million in 2016 for the entire 142-acre Miami Lakes property.
Carlos Gonzalez, president of Lennar South Florida, said that more than 50 percent of the properties have been sold and that the final phase of the development, a luxurious lakeside clubhouse, will be completed by the end of 2018.
Nearly 35,000 homes Lennar plans to build in 23 states this year will be Alexa-ready and designed in conjunction with the Wi-Fi Alliance to have no dead spots anywhere inside the residence.
David Kaiserman, president of Lennar Ventures, said the prices of the homes would not be affected by the technological additions and will include initial activation costs. People who move into the homes have the option to activate as few or as many of the services Amazon offers as part of the program.
Lennar offers a 90-day activation service to allow people time to decide if living in a voice-activated environment is for them. After that window elapses, you would pay for the elected services through Amazon Home Services.
The Lennar model homes also serve as Alexa showrooms for people who already own a place but are curious about the smart-home technology.
“A lot of people are intrigued by all the home-automation tech out there, but they’re not sure if they want to put it in their own home,” Kaiserman said. “The Amazon Experience Centers let consumers come interact with the tech and buy anything you see there. A lot of people go see model homes just to get ideas on how to improve their existing homes. This is no different.”
The venture with Lennar could give Amazon an extra boost in the increasingly competitive home-automation industry. According to a report by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), the number of voice-activated speakers sold in the U.S. stands at 45 million units — a whopping 900 percent increase from November 2016. Amazon Echo units account for 69 percent of the installed base of devices, or 31 million. Google Home owns 31 percent of the market, or 14 million units.
“Amazon is working very hard to make the Alexa operating system the winner in home automation,” said Josh Lowitz, partner and co-founder of CIRP. “Streaming audio and Internet inquiries are the entry point to these devices for many consumers, but true integration of home automation is the goal. Embedding [Alexa] technology in new construction housing is a great way to sell it to new home buyers and further establish it as the norm in U.S. residences.”
Amazon recently announced the opening of interactive Amazon Experience Centers within select Lennar model homes across the country. Customers can visit Alexa-enabled smart homes and see the technology in a real home environment. Amazon Experience Centers are now open at select Lennar communities in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC with more coming soon. Take a peek into one of the Amazon Experience Centers in this Good Morning America feature.
