milton: Custom Home Buyers Emerge
- 04/03/09 05:45 AM
After several quarters of understandably awaiting the next economic apocalypse, clients who have long deferred purchases of land/lots for construction of a custom designed home in Milton and Alpharetta, GA are now acting. Popular locations have included anything within Crabapple and particularly locations within the Milton High School district. The first signs of life in the market were the bottom feeders looking for bank-owned properties or distressed opportunities in January. More recently, traditional clients who are interested in identifying an ideal lot parcel and designing and constructing their custom home have emerged as well. Specific subdivisions that have recently seen (0 comments)
milton: The End of Speculative Customization
- 04/21/08 10:03 AM
Perhaps no word has been diluted to mean less in the real estate industry than "custom". What is a "custom" home? So many residential construction projects carry the "custom" marketing tagline that, for the sake of brevity, one might better ask what isn't a custom home? How can a home be a custom home if it is built by a builder on a speculative basis for a buyer whom the builder has never met? Has "custom" been marginalized to simply mean that the structure does not stand adjacent to an essentially identical structure? Does "custom" simply mean that the home was not stamped-out by a national (1 comments)