Atlanta Real Estate Forum

Archive Page - Links and Images have been removed.Jennifer Baxter and Ty White are this week’s guest on Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. Both talk about one of the biggest trends in today’s market, which is living in highly walkable or mixed use communities. This month’s shows are sponsored by Property Virgins, read more to...

Archive Page - Links and Images have been removed.JD Espana and Tom Rosser are this week’s guests on Atlanta Real Estate Forum radio. JD talks about how important location is in today’s market, while Tom talks about the effects of the housing market downturn on his newly formed company. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ JD Espana is the president...

Archive Page - Links and Images have been removed.Irene Hall and Julie Herron Carson are this week’s guest on Atlanta Real Estate Forum radio. Irene shares with us how Pulte Homes is ensuring that their homes give you the most bang for your buck, while Julie shares more information about the Spring Atlanta Home Show....

Stacy Patton and Alicia MacPhee are this week’s guest on Atlanta Real Estate Forum radio. Both talk about a variety of Atlanta properties available to buyers, and about different trends in today’s home buying market. Stacy Patton is the Managing Director of Development with Minerva USA. Stacy Patton shares with our listeners more about the varying types of properties Minerva builds and manages as well as the increasing popularity of master planned communities. Minerva USA is a private real estate development company whose properties range from master planned communities to in town projects such as town homes, office, retail, cottages and more. One of their newest communities is going to be a 60-acre townhome deal right on the Atlanta Belt Line with fabulous amenities and a great location. Minerva also manages Heron Bay, a master planned community with over 1,000 homes in Henry County. This community provides a total lifestyle for homebuyers, and one of the community’s builders, D.R. Horton, is offering incentives on their nine remaining homes. For more about Minerva USA and all of the great home options they offer, listen to the full podcast! And to learn more about Minerva USA, visit the website. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Today's Deal of the Day is from Acadia Homes, who is offering a sales incentive for brokers or realtors. Acadia will give any broker or realtor a day at the spa if they bring in a customer who writes a contract in any of their communalities by the end of March. The spa day can be taken at either Chateau Elan or Spa Sydell and is valued $500. For more information about how you can leap into this sales incentive, visit the Acadia website. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Our next guest is Alicia MacPhee, a broker with Alicia MacPhee realty group. Alicia has been in the real estate industry for 26 years, and she has served the Atlanta market for over 20 years. Alicia has had plenty of experience selling foreclosure homes, so she shares her advice on buying one of these types of properties. Her first piece of advice when dealing with a foreclosure is to make sure you are buying the right house for you in the right location and for the right price. She says that all potential homebuyers should use a realtor when dealing with this kind of property especially since Georgia is a “buyer beware” state. She also says that currently the most competitive prices are tending to be on these foreclosure type properties. To learn more about foreclosure properties, and to hear about some of the great properties currently on the market, listen to today’s podcast! And for more information, visit Alicia MacPhee’s website. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Special thanks to this week’s show sponsor Professional Warranty Service Corporation.Professional Warranty Service Corporation provides an insured warranty program to home builders that guarantees your new homes adheres to specifi c constructions standards for a full 10 years. To learn more about Professional Warranty Service Corporation, visit PWSC.com or call 800-850-2799. For more information on how you can feature your Atlanta new homes news, communities, products and services on Atlanta Real Estate Forum or Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio, call 770-383-3360. You can download all of the Atlanta Real Estate Forum radio podcasts from iTunes.

Kelly Dempsey and Nick Massengill are this week's guests on Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. Kelly talks about the growing active adult community phenomena, while Nick talks about a new rewards program for building professionals. Kelly Dempsey is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Jim Chapman Communities. Kelly shares with us more about Jim Chapman Communities, specifically how Jim Chapman’s active adult communities are unique to others in the area. Jim Chapman Communities builds lifestyle, gated active adult communities “within the beltline.” This means that their communities are all within about a mile from major highways. All of their homes are one-level living and are fully customizable to the buyer’s desires. An additional bonus is the communities’ amenities which include a clubhouse and pool. Kelly has also found that the clubhouse ends up being home to multiple social groups that are usually started by the residents within the communities. To learn more about Jim Chapman Communities and the great lifestyle they offer active adults, listen to the full podcast! And to learn more about Jim Chapman Communities, visit the website. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Today's Deal of the Day is from Brock Built, who is offering a $7,500 buyer bonus on all standing inventory in East Cobb, West Cobb and North Fulton. In addition, they are offering a $5,000 agent bonus. There two inventory homes from the $500,000s remaining at Idlewilde in the Lassiter school district. In the same school district, they also have two homes remaining from the $300,000s in Pete Shaw Manor. For those looking in Kennesaw, they have several homes in Cloverhurst price from the mid $300,000s. The final incentive is in Piedmont Crossing in Marietta where there are three homes available from the $300,000s. For more information about this incentive, visit the Brock Built website. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Our next guest is Nick Massengill, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Robert Bowden Inc. Robert has been in the building supply business for over 30 years, with 23 of those years being with Robert Bowden Inc. Robert Bowden is a 28-year-old, 100 percent employee owned building material company who serve professional trade remodelers, builders and contractors primarily. They are a wholesaler, distributor and manufacturer of building materials with three locations in Marietta (headquarters), Duluth and McDonough. Thanks to the help of Nick, Robert Bowden is now participating in a rewards program that is new to Atlanta, The Builders Club. This is a national frequent buyers program for builders, remodelers and contractors. Whenever you make a purchase, you earn non-expiring points that can be redeemed for prizes and rewards such as professional group trips or brand-name merchandise.  Membership is free, and there are currently well-vetted suppliers in 32 categories. To learn more about the Builders Club, listen to the podcast and visit their website, or for more on Robert Bowden Inc., visit their website. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Special thanks to this week’s show sponsor Professional Warranty Service Corporation. Professional Warranty Service Corporation provides an insured warranty program to home builders that guarantees your new homes adheres to specific constructions standards for a full 10 years. To learn more about Professional Warranty Service Corporation, visit PWSC.com or call 800-850-2799. For more information on how you can feature your Atlanta new homes news, communities, products and services on Atlanta Real Estate Forum or Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio, call 770-383-3360.

Laura Capps and Carla Ruff are this week's guests on Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. Both Laura and Carla talk about what buyers of Atlanta new homes want these days including energy efficiency, quality and utilitarian spaces. Laura Capps is the director of Residential Green Building Services with Southface. Laura shares with us some information about green building, specifically EarthCraft, and what it means for the Atlanta new home buyer. EarthCraft is a program started by Southface in association with the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association in 1999. This program is specific to the Southeast including Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Alabama and Tennessee, and includes several ways to measure the “greenness” of the home. EarthCraft is about affordability, practicality and actual field results. To learn more about Southface, Residential Green Building Services or Earthcraft listen to the full podcast! And to learn more about Southface, visit the website. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Today's Deal of the Day is from GAHomeForeclosures, and features two luxury home foreclosures in McDonough. Both homes are new construction and are priced in the mid-$300,000s. These prices reflect reductions of more than $40,000 since they listed! Just like the name implies, GAHomeForeclosures is the largest listing site of foreclosures in Georgia. There are various categories you can search, but perhaps the most appealing is the new construction category which includes unfinished homes that GAHomeForeclosures have gone in and completed so that buyers can move in right away at a discounted price. Many of these homes even come with a warranty. For more information about this incentive, visit the GAHomeForeclosures website. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Our next guest is Carla Ruff, sales manager with Peachtree Residential Properties. Carla has spent 16 years in the home building industry, with 14 of those years in new construction. She has seen a lot of home building trends, and shares some of her most recent discoveries with us. Currently, Utilitarian spaces such as laundry rooms, basements, closets and all the other rooms that make your home easier to work in are popular right now. Carla goes on to explain that today’s buyer is expecting more out of their homes. There are so many options out on the market; buyers want a builder who distinguishes themselves with quality. This goes above and beyond normal building standards as buyers are moving more and more toward energy efficiency. Peachtree Residential Properties works hard to build quality, energy efficient homes for the Atlanta home market. To learn more, listen to the podcast and then visit the Peachtree Residential Properties website. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Special thanks to this week’s show sponsor Professional Warranty Service Corporation. Professional Warranty Service Corporation provides an insured warranty program to home builders that guarantees your new homes adheres to specific constructions standards for a full 10 years. To learn more about Professional Warranty Service Corporation, visit PWSC.com or call 800-850-2799. For more information on how you can feature your Atlanta new homes news, communities, products and services on Atlanta Real Estate Forum or Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio, call 770-383-3360. You can download all of the Atlanta Real Estate Forum radio podcasts from iTunes.

Neal Davis and Andy Dimarzio are this week's guests on Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. Neal talks about building Atlanta new homes and his work with the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association and Andy shares what homebuyers want in a new home. ...

Archive Page - Links and Images have been removed.Dwayne Hill and Roger Langford are this week’s guests on Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. Dwayne talks about building Atlanta new homes with energy efficient features and Roger discusses the importance of buying a home with a warranty. Dwayne Hill is the vice president of sales and...

Michael Rosenberg and Colby Henson are on this week's episode of Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. Both guests discuss what homebuyers are looking for in Atlanta new homes. Michael Rosenberg is the senior vice president of Rocklyn Homes. This homebuilder constructs new homes with a hands-on approach and a high attention to detail. From the feel of the kitchen and the trim in the family room to the landscaping of the community, Rocklyn Homes takes into consideration how your family lives. Michael shares the home designs that are most popular with metro Atlanta homebuyers. He explains that submarkets must be taken into consideration when determining the popularity of home designs. For example, in Forsyth, the single-family homes at Champions Run are extremely popular. However, in Gwinnett County, Rocklyn’s townhomes are selling fast. Although it’s hard to pinpoint which type of home is most popular among homebuyers, one thing is for certain: everyone is searching for affordability. To learn more about what you can expect from the housing market in 2012, listen to the full podcast! And to learn more about Rocklyn Homes, visit the website or call 770-817-2185 ext. 110. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Today's Deal of the Day is from Traton Homes. The builder is reinstating its Community Champions program in 2012. Back by popular demand, this fabulous incentive rewards teachers, police, firefighters and active U.S.  Military with a 2 percent discount on homes that close by Dec. 31, 2012. Simply visit the Traton Homes website, print off the coupon and present it to the on-site sales agent when visiting a community. Traton has been building homes in Atlanta with ‘Altogether More’ for more than 40 years. For more information about the Community Champions program, visit the Traton Homes website. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Our next guest is Colby Henson, vice president of sales and marketing at Red Oak Realty. Red Oak Realty is a local building group in Cobb County. Colby shares with us that today’s typical buyer is savvy and picky because he or she is allowed to be. It takes a good location and a good feature set to bring buyers to your new home community. Good Feature Set – Today, a lot of features are standard that were once considered upgrades. So, buyers expect to see hardwoods throughout the main floor, granite countertops and tile backsplashes. Downsizing – Many of today’s buyers are choosing to downsize. A few years ago, everyone was looking for a large home with a lot of square footage. Now, buyers want a little bit of a smaller house, but they want it finished better. Energy Efficiency – Today’s buyer is looking for an energy efficient home without large, open spaces that are expensive to heat and cool. Red Oak Realty has new homes throughout Cobb County with a variety of features and finishes to accommodate any buyer’s needs. To learn more, listen to the podcast and then visit the Red Oak Realty website. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Special thanks to this week’s show sponsor Professional Warranty Service Corporation. Professional Warranty Service Corporation provides an insured warranty program to home builders that guarantees your new homes adheres to specific constructions standards for a full 10 years. To learn more about Professional Warranty Service Corporation, visit PWSC.com or call 800-850-2799. For more information on how you can feature your Atlanta new homes news, communities, products and services on Atlanta Real Estate Forum or Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio, call 770-383-3360.

Archive Page - Links and Images have been removed.Barbara Glore and Mitch Block join us on this week’s episode of Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. Barbara Glore is the Sales and Marketing Manager for Brock Built Homes. This is one Atlanta home builder that has started 2012 with a bang by opening a number of...

Archive Page - Links and Images have been removed.Dennis McConnell with McConnell Hickman and Custom Builders Atlanta joins us on Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio. Dennis has been building homes since he was 12, this means he has been in the industry more than 50 years. Custom Builders Atlanta is a group of 13 local...

Archive Page - Links and Images have been removed.Haley Livingston with HomeAid Atlanta is our first guest this week’s special Thanksgiving edition of Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio.  Haley is the program manager for HomeAid Atlanta, the designated charity for the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association. HomeAid’s mission is to build and maintain dignified housing...

Archive Page - Links and Images have been removed.Kimberly Garwood and Josh Hilscher with Traton Homes are our first guest’s this week on Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio.  Kimberly is the Marketing Manager for Traton and  has been in home building marketing for 10 years. Josh is Vice President for Sales & Marketing and he...

Archive Page - Links and Images have been removed.Kevin Morrow the Internet New Home Consultant for Lennar Atlanta is this week’s guest on Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio.  He shares information with our listeners on Lennar’s one year anniversary in the Atlanta new homes market (congrats) and on their new “Paint the Town Blue” promotion....