Highland Homes has recognized the current trend in what their buyers want and need in this new market. From 2004 to now, buyers have made it known they are not interested in paying for homes built in excess of 3,000 square feet with high ceilings that offer too much space to fill with guests and too much expense added by wasted energy. The high ceilings and large floor plans buyers insisted on having just a few years ago are now replaced with more modest floorplans. The new economic times have everyone thinking more logically about utility bills and wasted space.
Highland Homes has witnessed the need for smaller, more compact floor plans. Their number one selling floor plan is now a 3 bedroom/2 baths home with a 2 car garage and just over 1250 square feet. The Cameron is the number one selling floor plan. The demand is obvious. Buyers want less space, less waste, more energy efficient plans and just a little bit of luxury. Highland Homes offers a luxury bath in most of their floor plans, which includes a large walk-in closet in the master bedroom, plus a garden tub, separate shower and double sink vanity in the master bath. This gives the sense of luxury in floorplans that provide the most economical sense for their buyers. The builder also includes a feature that no other builder in the area offers as a final touch to most of their floor plan. The company not only includes a covered lanai to most of their plans, but they also include the screen enclosure and door that would typically cost thousands of dollars more with other builders.
The company has reviewed their catalog of plans to provide buyers with what they want and need and have met these demands with newly improved plans. In 2009 over 60% of all floor plans for Highland Homes were less than 2000 square feet. This statistics is similar to what was recently reported in a Florida Realtor web story. View this link for more on the recent changes to buyer demands for housing.
www.floridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents
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Economic times changing day to day and now people thinking more logically about utility bills and waste space.
Great to see more and more builders taking green issues an environmental sustainability seriously. It is encouraging also to see that part of the property buying public are also
I have to say this seems to be the new trend. The larger homes with larger square footage just don’t have the same investment appeal they used to. It’s always been about affordability and just not that many people can afford these huge homes anymore, or at least they don’t make much economic sense.
Consumers are realizing that less floorspace doesn’t have to mean less luxury. These “smaller” homes are more efficient, cost saving, and just as lavish and comfortable as the homes from a few years ago.
In these changing economic times, homes that are less floorspace doesn’t necessarily mean less comfortableness but sometimes it makes you save money, less expenses but more efficient and even convenient! Thought provoking post! Keep it up!
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Yeah these small homes are really good and giving lot of comfort to the peoples living in them.
Highland homes is a great company and I’ve been hearing more and more about them lately.