Wade Jurney Homes unveils its newest single-family home community today with free pizza and a handy $5,000 buyer incentive.
The Villages at Carriage Woods, located at 502 Peach Orchard Drive in Browns Summit, is geared to first-time homebuyers, says Matt Pannell, director of sales and marketing for the Greensboro-based builder.
Prices for the transitional-style homes range from the low $100,000s to the $130,000s, and the 1,100- to 1,784-square-foot floor plans feature three to four bedrooms and two to three full bathrooms. One- or two-car garages also are available.
“We currently have two homes available to move in and three others under construction,” Pannell says. Fifty-six home sites are planned.
Home shoppers can check out the new subdivision today when 98.7 FM Simon will be live on location while the builder provides free refreshments from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
But the main prize is a promotion allowing buyers to use $5,000 in “flex money” on options or upgrades, to discount the home price, or toward financing. The incentive is available through Aug. 31, Pannell says. Wade Jurney also will pay $3,000 in closings costs, on top of the promotion, if the buyer uses the builder’s attorney and preferred mortgage lenders.
“They can get in with $1 down,” Pannell says. “That’s all we ask for.”
The neighborhood’s decorated model is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday and Monday.
The builder is emphasizing the convenience of the Villages at Carriage Woods, which is accessible from Lee’s Chapel Road and Church Street in Greensboro and is close to shopping centers in the Lake Jeannette area. Another benefit, Pannell says, is the Browns Summit taxes. And homeowners’ fees are $240 a year.
For more information about Villages at Carriage Woods, call on-site sales consultant Ruth Goodson at 382-8247.
Cable Square at Elon welcomes visitors
A designer-decorated open house is ready for visitors at Cable Square at Elon, Mid Atlantic Development Group’s latest Stone Gables Villas community.
The Greensboro developer will build 46 brick and stone twin homes in the traditionally designed neighborhood close to Elon University in Alamance County. The community layout is intended to create an intimate atmosphere with lots of green space. “We want the community to be pedestrian-friendly so everybody gets to know their neighbors,” says sales agent Margaret Loy. Loy thinks Cable Square will be particularly attractive to empty nesters looking for maintenance-free living.
“These villas are very well-suited for people who are tired of maintaining their lawn,” she says.
Homes start at $234,900 and can range in size from 2,000 to 2,700 square feet. The three-bedroom, two-bathroom homes feature smooth 12-foot ceilings and two-piece crown molding in the great room, with 9-foot ceilings in the rest of the house. Other features of note are the complete kitchen appliance package, including refrigerator, and oversized two-car garage with space for a freezer and workshop.
The design also makes the attached units seem like single-family homes, Loy says, because the walls connect in the garage and help to eliminate sounds traveling between villas. “It’s more like having an individual home because the only adjoining wall is that garage.”
Two units have been built, she says. Construction of new homes, which would not begin until they are purchased, takes three months.
The homeowners fee, still to be determined, would include the irrigation system for sod in the front and back lawns, roof and gutter maintenance, and a basic cable/HBO package.
The designer-decorated house is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Monday. For details, call Loy at 420-4521 or visit www.stonegablesvillas.com.
Run for the Fallen today
It’s not too late to participate in the Run for the Fallen today in Burlington.
The event is being sponsored by Western Alamance High School Student Council and Wakefield Development Co.’s Mackintosh on the Lake community. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. at Loch Ridge Manor, the community’s residence center at 4210 Bonnar Bridge Parkway. The 5K race starts at 8:30 a.m. The donation fee is $20 for adults and $15 for students. Runners are invited to a cookout and pool party afterward. Miles will be marked with an American flag and personalized sign card in honor of a fallen service member. The dedication markers, which are being made with the help of middle and high schools, will create a memorial trail across the United States, connecting cities and towns from coast to coast. The charity race is part of the national Run for the Fallen event, a summer-long nonpartisan program with participants running one mile for every service member who has died in the Iraq War. The event benefits the Wounded Warrior Project.
Join the Parade
It’s nearly fall, which means it’s parade season in Alamance and Caswell counties.
The newly renamed Alamance Caswell Home Builders Association is planning its 2008 Parade of Homes, scheduled Oct. 11 and 12 and Oct. 18 and 19, and looking for participants. Builders currently working in the area who would like to take part may contact the association office at 227-1336 for more information.
Heather L. Modlin can be reached at 373-7144 or hmodlin@news-record.com.