Georgetown, Texas Real Estate Blog Your Host: Edward Lui

Home sales are excellent in Georgetown, Texas! We’re breaking new records and we just can’t keep up with the demand! Buy now or rent forever…local shortage of homes!

Ok, not really, but I just thought you’d like to hear something positive in the news these days…and maybe, just maybe those headlines will be true for Georgetown one day.

Here’s a headline you can believe in:

FREE KID-FRIENDLY ENTERTAINMENT:

Balloon Twister, Face Painter,Refreshments, and Gift Card Give-Aways at Georgetown Village Tour of Homes -

Sunday, October 19th from 2-5PM

Since the “ace in the hole” for Georgetown Village is the Exemplary Village Elementary School, I thought it would be very fitting to have a kid-friendly event that would be different then the typical, boring open house. This tour of homes will feature homes by local builders: Origin Homes, Cobblestone Homes, Green Builders as well as larger builders: Lennar, Perry and David Weekley. It will be a one-of-a-kind opportunity to check out 6 different builders in one of the most talked-about communities in Georgetown.

Hope to see you there! Check out the map: gtv-edwardlui

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Hooray for the little guys! Well, I guess they’re not that little if they’re on the American stock exchange. However, Green Builders is not somebody you hear about all that frequently, yet they just got recognized by the National Association of Home Builders for being the “2008 Single Family Affordable Home of the Year” at the National Green Building Awards. Nice to know that you don’t have to pay an arm and a leg to have something environmentally friendly eh?

Congratulations to their President and CEO, Clark Wilson, and the whole Green Builders crew. To learn more about Green Builders or to visit their homes in Georgetown or the Greater Austin area, give me a call. We’ll car pool and make it an earth friendly day as we shop for earth friendly homes. They’re literally building 2 homes down from where I live in Georgetown Village!

Full article is below:

Green Builders, Inc. Honored at NAHB National Green Building Awards

Green Builders wins award for Single Family Affordable Home of the Year

Austin, TX—May 12, 2008–Who says it’s not easy being green? Just ask the folks at Green Builders, Inc. (AMEX:GBH), a leading large-scale community developer of sustainable homes in the Austin, Texas area, who have been selected as the 2008 Single Family Affordable Home of the Year at the National Green Building Awards held by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).

Now in its 10th year, the National Green Building Awards recognizes individuals, companies and organizations for excellence in residential green design, construction practices and for green building programs and advocacy efforts. Competition for this award was particularly intense, but Green Builders stood out amongst the nominees for their continued innovation and advancement in the field of environmentally sustainable home building, a hot topic throughout the housing market.

“We were thrilled to be nominated. We are even more thrilled that we won. I think that this award speaks to how important environmentally sustainable home building has become nationwide. We look at this as not just a win for our company, but a win for the green movement and those in our industry who truly care about the efficient use of natural resources when building homes, “stated Clark Wilson, President and CEO of Green Builders, Inc.

Green Builders, Inc. incorporates energy efficiency, water and resource conservation, the use of sustainable and/or recycled materials, and indoor air quality control – all of which are considered when evaluating a green home. In addition, Green Builders’ homes are built to the stringent Green Building Standards set by NAHB.

Green Builders’ energy efficient and green, sustainable homes are priced from the $180,000s to $600,000s and available throughout the Austin area.
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About Green Builders, Inc.
Green Builders, Inc. (AMEX: GBH) combines the equal necessities of progress and preservation by building homes that tread lightly on the earth. Our success is measured by continued sales in a growing number of sustainable communities, which we believe to be vital to a sustainable planet. With respect for the world’s resources and for the needs of our clients, we create healthy, beautiful, long-lasting homes that people, and the earth, can afford. To learn more visit, www.greenbuildersinc.com.

Looks like Georgetown is getting another custom home builder, McCrary Homes.  Georgetown, Texas has more custom home builders per capita than any other town within a 100 mile radius…including Austin!  No, this is not a verified fact.  Maybe someday I’ll run the numbers, but for now, you’ll just have to trust me.

Bottom Line:  With such a high custom home to population ratio, you can take comfort that your Georgetown home value is anchored by some very nice surrounding homes.  Before you go jumping into any home builder, make sure you call me to help represent your best interests!  Even “big” builders have been filing for bankruptcy lately and you don’t want to have a half-built home!  More postings on that later!

Article reprint below: 

Luxury Home Builders McCrary Homes Announce Return to Austin, Texas Area Building After a twenty year absence, McCrary Homes announces a return to Austin, Texas area home building. These new high-end homes feature the latest designs and innovative technology, classic luxury homes for the future.

(PRWEB) January 30, 2008 — McCrary Homes, a family-owned company specializing in the building of luxury new homes, announces a return to construction in the Austin, Texas area after a twenty year absence. The luxury new homes are being built in Georgetown, Texas, minutes from Austin, in the much-desired Williamson County North West Corridor, cited as one of the fastest growing counties in the United States.

Linda McCrary added, “We are on the cutting edge of new technology to make life easier and more energy efficient.” The new homes from the luxury home builders company feature items that include tankless water heaters, high efficiency appliances and plumbing fixtures. McCrary Homes works with landscapes that are drought tolerant and deer resistant.