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849 ENERGY STAR® Certified Homes in 2015
Lennar Charlotte has earned an ENERGY STAR® Certified Homes Market Leader Award. Recognizing the best in energy-efficient construction and environmental protection, the award is a result of Lennar’s building of 849 ENERGY STAR® certified homes in 2015.
“It’s no secret that this award is important in the homebuilding industry,” shares President of Lennar’s Charlotte Division Jon Hardy. “We’re proud to be leaders in the Carolinas’ green building movement and will continue to deliver homes that save energy and money for homeowners.”
ENERGY STAR® certified homes are available in all of Lennar’s Charlotte-area communities and provide Lennar’s Everything’s Included® program with features that most homebuilders charge extra for. These include ENERGY STAR certified appliances such as energy efficient lights and tankless water heaters that use 40 percent less energy and provide an endless supply of hot water with low CO2 emissions.
About Lennar Charlotte
With 21 communities in the area’s most desirable locations, Lennar Charlotte has helped thousands of families, couples and individuals move into the next phase of their lives with a new home. Lennar Charlotte communities cater to a variety of lifestyles including urban, suburban and active adult. The division’s commitment to quality, value and integrity serves as an underlying foundation for all aspects of homebuilding. For more information about Lennar Charlotte, please visit www.lennar.com or call a New Home consultant at 888-208-4141.
Citrus Heights is a new community by high quality homebuilder Lennar featuring two stunning collections of homes, Orchard and Hillcrest. Planted along the old citrus belts of the Inland Empire, this stylish community pays tribute to the history of the land, with homes that feature breathtaking views and large backyards — an ideal spot for budding families.”
“These neighborhoods are the perfect backdrop for families,” said Tara Conklin, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Lennar Inland Empire. “With so many floorplans to choose from across two collections, including our wildly popular The Home Within A Home® floorplan that accommodates multigenerational families, there is something for everyone!”
The two charming collections of homes available at Citrus Heights offer a variety of distinctive floorplans for buyers to choose from and each home is packed with exceptional features.
Priced from the mid $500,000’s, the sophisticated Orchard collection has four distinctive floorplans for homebuyesr to choose from. Homes range in size approximately 2,413 to 4,125 square feet with three to seven bedrooms and two and one-half to four and one-half bathrooms.
The luxurious Hillcrest Collection, priced from the mid $600,000’s, offers approximately 2,832 to 4,644 square feet of living space, three to five bedrooms and two and one-half to three and one-half bathrooms.
Available in both collections is Lennar’s renowned The Home Within a Home®, which was designed for multigenerational living at its finest. An attached private suite includes a separate entrance, living room, kitchenette, laundry area, bedroom and full sized bathroom. Lennar designed this unique floorplan to be incorporated into the main home floorplan in a way that allows it to be a separate space that doesn’t compromise the square footage of the main home.The Home Within a Home® Superhome, available in the Orchard collection, gives up to seven bedrooms with optional second bedroom in the private suite.
Every home at Citrus Heights features Lennar’s upscale Everything’s Included® package which includes many high-end, luxury upgrades included at no extra cost. Among the most noteworthy of these features are large gourmet kitchen islands, slab granite countertops, upgraded cabinetry, stainless steel appliances, crown molding at select locations, solar and much more. There’s no need for buyers to compromise on elements that make up their dream home when purchasing a new home with Lennar.
Lennar believes buyers should not have to compromise on energy efficient features either. New homes at Citrus Heights include tankless water heaters, high performance windows, water conserving toilets, high-end insulation and many other features that reduce monthly utility costs while greatly improving the overall quality of the home.
Residents will enjoy a variety of biking and hiking trails nearby, easy access to the 15 and 91 freeways and excellent Riverside schools.
Citrus Heights trailer is located at 13160 Cordial Circle in Riverside. To learn more information, view floorplans or set up a tour visit http://www.lennar.com/new-homes/california/inland-empire/riverside/citrus-heights or call (888) 203-9186.
With hundreds of communities nationwide and homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers, Lennar has grown to become one of the nation’s leading and most respected homebuilders and proudly remains steadfast in their commitment toward quality, value and integrity. Lennar has a longstanding history of building exceptional homes in only the most well planned and desirable locations throughout the country.
Next month, Lennar Bay Area will open a sales trailer for the public to view information about their upcoming and newest Milpitas community, Waterstone. A Grand Opening event will take place later this summer, where professionally decorated models will be available to tour. Interested homebuyers are invited to visit the website and join the interest list to stay up-to-date on the latest information as it becomes available.
“We are so excited about this upcoming community, we think it will be really well received,” said Marketing Manager for Lennar Bay Area Morgan Sterling. “We’ve matched some of our most popular floorplans with an excellent location and stylish Everything’s Included® features.”
Homes at Waterstone will feature contemporary yet comfortable designs in a vibrant neighborhood. Tailored for young or active professionals, this community will be ideally located for commuters. Lying only seven minutes away from Cisco, the neighborhood will also be near the new Milpitas BART station, which is slated to open in 2018.
Offering access to the city, Waterstone is set in a location that allows residents to get out in the nearby countryside that includes hiking trails and a community park within walking distance. Additionally, children will attend the great schools within the award-winning Milpitas School District, making this community a perfect place for families to live and thrive.
Waterstone will offer spacious three-story designs available in three distinctive and thoughtful floorplans. These single-family detached homes set in the charming and quaint location of Milpitas, will undoubtedly embody a dream lifestyle that delivers the functionality required for everyday needs, all without sacrificing luxury.
More information will be available on this community on Saturday, June 4th by visiting the sales trailer located at 1550 Hidden Creek Lane. To stay informed, visit the website to sign up for the interest list.
With hundreds of communities nationwide and homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers, Lennar has grown to become one of the nation’s leading and most respected homebuilders and proudly remains steadfast in their commitment toward quality, value and integrity. Lennar has a longstanding history of building exceptional homes in only the most well planned and desirable locations throughout the country.
You may have heard about the many benefits of LED bulbs. Versatility, long life and cost effectiveness make them an attractive option for your home. Ready to swap your incandescents for LEDs? Sharon Profis for CNET shares what you need to know before heading to the home improvement store.
Because there are so many LED varieties, choosing an LED is entirely different from picking up an incandescent. Before you head to the store, find out what you need to know about choosing the right LED bulbs.
Forget what you know about incandescents — your watts are no good here.
When shopping for bulbs, you’re probably accustomed to looking for watts, an indication of how bright the bulb will be. The brightness of LEDs, however, is determined a little differently.
Contrary to common belief, wattage isn’t an indication of brightness, but a measurement of how much energy the bulb draws. For incandescents, there is an accepted correlation between the watts drawn and the brightness, but for LEDs, watts aren’t a great predictor of how bright the bulb will be. (The point, after all, is that they draw less energy.)
For example, an LED bulb with comparable brightness to a 60W incandescent is only 8 to 12 watts.
But don’t bother doing the math — there isn’t a uniform way to covert incandescent watts to LED watts. Instead, a different form of measurement should be used:lumens.
The lumen (lm) is the real measurement of brightness provided by a light bulb, and is the number you should look for when shopping for LEDs. For reference, here’s a chart that shows the watt-lumen conversion for incandescents and LEDs.
As you can see in the chart above, an incandescent can draw up to five times as many watts for the same number of lumens. Get a sense of the brightness (in lumens) you need before heading to the store, and throw away your affinity for watts.
You can always count on incandescents providing a warm, yellowish hue. But LEDs come in a wide range of colors.
As shown off by the Philips Hue, LED bulbs are capable of displaying an impressive color range, from purple to red, to a spectrum of whites and yellows. For the home, however, you’re likely looking for something similar to the light that incandescents produce.
The popular colors available for LEDs are “warm white” or “soft white,” and “bright white.”
Warm white and soft white will produce a yellow hue, close to incandescents, while bulbs labeled as bright white will produce a whiter light, closer to daylight and similar to what you see in retail stores.
If you want to get technical, light color (color temperature) is measured in kelvins. The lower the number, the warmer (yellower) the light. So, your typical incandescent is somewhere between 2,700 and 3,500K. If that’s the color you’re going for, look for this range while shopping for LED bulbs.
Read the full article: Five things to consider before buying LED bulbs – CNET
On the path to buying your first home and obtaining a mortgage, it’s common to come across a lot of unfamiliar terms. From ARM to APR and HOA to FAH, the lingo may seem complex and confusing. This video from USA Today explains the ABCs of homebuying, arming you with valuable information to become an educated and savvy home shopper.
Want to learn more? Check out Universal American Mortgage Company’s Dictionary – a convenient resource to help you avoid confusion as you move through the process of buying and owning your new home.
Read more: First-time home buyers face a complex and ever-changing market: Here’s a guide.
While the last day of spring is only a few weeks away, the home buying season may just be getting started. This National Mortgage News article by Jacob Passy sites competition for low inventory and an urgency to move before the new school year as some of the driving factors for strong summer home sales.
Step aside, spring. Summer is becoming the new hot season for home buying, according to a Florida Atlantic University economist.
Competition fueled by low inventory and interest rates and high prices will likely continue to push home sales figures higher this year, according to Ken Johnson, an associate dean at FAU’s College of Business in Boca Raton, Fla. And that’s not the only factor that will drive the buying frenzy that Johnson expects in the coming months.
“Sellers are also looking to sell over the summer, particularly if they have children and want to get a deal done before school starts again,” he said in a news release Tuesday.
While Johnson did express concerns about some cities that have been hot markets for a while now, such as Dallas and Denver, overall he expected home prices to continue their upward climb.
“In some cities, especially in the Midwest, prices have plenty of room to go up,” Johnson said.
Those high prices could make homes harder to sell in some markets though — but Johnson said that this shouldn’t be cause for concerns.
“In markets like South Florida, Seattle and Portland, you may find you’re going to start to see lower probabilities that you’ll be able to successfully market your property,” he said. “But while you may see extended marketing time and prices going flat, there’s no reason to believe there’s going to be a big dent in prices in these cities.”
Read the full article: Summer May Replace Spring as Hottest Home Buying Season: Economist
Get into a new home this summer to give yourself time to get settled before the kids go back to school. Lennar Central Valley has move-in ready homes at great prices in their master-planned community Gossamer Grove, located in Shafter.
“Gossamer Grove is the perfect place for new, budding or growing families,” said Susan Wilke, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “With such a wide variety of home sizes and styles available, Gossamer Grove truly is an ideal community for any family.”
Gossamer Grove is a master planned community that is being built atop more than 1,000 acres and is slated to include more than 3,000 homes, two schools, ten parks including Flight Park, meant to pay homage to Shafter’s deep-rooted history in aviation, and commercial and retail development, including city services.
Gossamer Grove will be built in phases, the first of which is now selling and has quick move-in homes available. The first phase consists of three series of home collections by Lennar, The Cambridge Collection, The Chateau Series and The California Series, offering 20 distinct floorplans.
The Cambridge Collection at Gossamer Grove is priced starting from the low $300,000’s and features eight distinctive plans for homebuyers to choose from, including two different The Home Within A Home® models. Homes range from one to two-stories, three to four bedrooms, two to three bathrooms and approximately 1,877 to 3,185 square feet.
The California Series at Gossamer Grove is priced starting from the upper $200,000’s and features four distinctive, single story plans to choose from. These homes range from approximately 1,580 to 1,989 square feet, three to four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
The Chateau Series is priced from the low $300,000’s and provides some spacious options with eight distinctive, European-cottage inspired floorplans including oneThe Home Within a Home option. With both single and two-story options available, home sizes range from approximately 1,766 to 2,969 square feet, three to four bedrooms and two to three bathrooms.
For more information on these homes or to set up an appointment to tour these models, please visit www.lennar.com/gossamergrove or call 661-836-8601.
With hundreds of communities nationwide and homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers, Lennar has grown to become one of the nation’s leading and most respected homebuilders and proudly remains steadfast in their commitment toward quality, value and integrity. Lennar has a longstanding history of building exceptional homes in only the most well planned and desirable locations throughout the country.
Last weekend, Lennar Reno celebrated the grand opening of two premier neighborhoods, Rosso and Bianco at Cabernet Highlands. More than a hundred people came out for the event and homes were sold during the initial opening weekend.
“We were so thrilled to see so many people come by to tour our homes here at Cabernet Highlands,” said Dustin Barker, Division President for Lennar Reno. “We received some really great feedback on our homes and met some amazing families who will be some of the first residents to move-in to Cabernet Highlands once its completed.”
Rosso and Bianco at Cabernet Highlands will offer two stunning collections of floorplans to choose from, including Lennar’s buzzed about The Home Within a Home®, a unique home designed to accommodate dual living and multigenerational families in a revolutionary way.
Rosso at Cabernet Highlands will feature three distinctive single-story floorplans for buyers to choose from: The Comstock, The Ponderosa and The Shire, The Home Within a Home.
The Comstock provides approximately 2,200 square feet of living space that includes three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a den and three-bay garage. The Ponderosa model features approximately 2,400 square feet with four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a three-bay garage.
The Home Within a Home, the Shire, boasts approximately 2,547 square feet of living space and includes an attached private suite complete with separate entrance, living room, bedroom, kitchenette and laundry area. The Shire offers four bedrooms and three bathrooms in total, along with a spacious three-bay garage.
Bianco at Cabernet Highlands features three more distinctive single-story plans to choose from. The Piñon model provides approximately 1,721 square feet and includes three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a two-bay garage. The Juniper gives approximately 1,950 square feet of space with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a private dining room and a two-bay garage. The spacious Sandstone plan provides four bedrooms, two and one-half bathrooms and a two-bay garage across approximately 2,175 square feet.
With Lennar’s Everything’s Included® program, homebuyers no longer have to compromise on upscale amenities like granite kitchen countertops, stainless steel appliances, programmable thermostats, tankless water heaters and more because they come included at no extra cost.
Rosso and Bianco at Cabernet Highlands is now open for tours. The Welcome Home Center is located at 7240 Rutherford Drive, and more information or contact information is available by visiting www.lennar.com/reno.
With hundreds of communities nationwide and homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers, Lennar has grown to become one of the nation’s leading and most respected homebuilders. Lennar has a longstanding history of building homes of enduring quality in only the most well planned and desirable locations throughout the country.
Lennar’s newest Valencia community receives a warm welcome
Located just thirty miles north of Los Angeles, Arte is a brand new gated community of single-family detached homes set within the Lennar’s West Hills masterplanned community. Lennar celebrated a great grand opening event and sold the majority of homes released that weekend.
“We were so thrilled to see so many people come out for the event and to meet so many new Lennar homeowners,” said Tara Conklin, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Lennar Inland. “So many people gave such positive feedback on our models, and we’ve already sold most of the homes released in that initial weekend.”
Arte at West Hills is an ideal, family-friendly community located nearby award-winning schools, with children being able to attend the renowned West Creek Academy. Additionally, Arte is close to great shopping, restaurants, entertainment, outdoor recreation and provides easy access to major freeways.
Offering three distinctive floorplans to choose from, each home design features a modern, two-story layout. Homes range in size from approximately 2,291 to 2,467 square feet, up to five bedrooms and three to three-and-a-half bathrooms.
These modern new homes also offer residents a sustainable lifestyle by utilizing solar power. Powered by state-of-the-art, microinverter-based SunPower Solar™ homeowners will save money on utility costs every month, all while conserving resources. And, thanks to Everything’s Included®, homes at Arte come with stylish upgrades at no added cost, including granite slab countertops, upgraded cabinetry, GE® stainless steel appliances, crown molding, theater pre-wiring in great room, tankless water heaters, home automation and so much more.
Residents will enjoy the security and pristine lifestyle that Arte at West Hills has to offer through great amenities. This gated community provides an extravagant clubhouse, swimming pool, community center, park, playground, trail, greenbelt and plenty of spaces to enjoy family time.
The West Hills Welcome Home Center is located at 28964 West Hills Drive. For more information and directions visit http://www.lennar.com/new-homes/california/valencia/valencia/west-hills/arte or call (888) 203-9186.
With hundreds of communities nationwide and homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers, Lennar has grown to become one of the nation’s leading and most respected homebuilders and proudly remains steadfast in their commitment toward quality, value and integrity. Lennar has a longstanding history of building exceptional homes in only the most well planned and desirable locations throughout the country.
