Design of the Month Reviews :
The Banfield Single Luxury Home by Cardel 
There is plenty of activity here, now that roads have been completely cut through the wooded areas surrounding
Kizell Pond and leading to
Kanata Estates, a new community shared by several leading and smaller Ottawa home builders. It therefore provides home buyers with plenty of variety in the types of homes and designs they can choose from - whether large families, retired couples, or more discerning buyers who want and can afford more luxurious appointments and finishes in their home. There are also smaller homes for younger singles and couples.
Custom Home Builders
Among the embarrassment of riches in Kanata Estates is a respected custom home builder not often featured on this site. We decided to see what Cardel have to offer at the present moment...
The Forestlane Single Family Home by Mattamy
This Spring,
Mattamy introduced a handsome new 2 Storey detached home in their
Half Moon Bay community in Barrhaven and also in
Fairwinds, Kanata. By doing so they enabled young couples to buy a 4 bedroom single family home for just less than $300,000, although the price has since increased slightly.
A New Trend
Evidently introducing somewhat smaller home designs or less luxurious ones is a new trend in 2009 by some of Ottawa's home builders, as prices of existing designs shoot up out of reach beyond that level. The new Forestlane is built on a 34ft lot and has a one-car garage...
The Hudson compact Single by Minto
Minto has released
The Hudson, a neat new design for a single family home. The builder's strategy typifies a current trend to create new and more compact homes to replace larger ones that have risen in price beyond the means of many buyers in this most important market sector.
The Hudson is priced starting in the low $270's when located in the community of Morgan's Grant, (Kanata), and slightly more in Chapman Mills (Barrhaven). It includes just about everything that a young couple with small children might require (or an older couple downsizing, for that matter).
Most of the finished space is allocated to the main level, with a master suite that identifies it as having been designed particularly for the retiring boomer generation. That also distinguishes it from all too many 2-story plans in which wasted and costly space is distributed haphazardly across unnecessarily large upstairs bedrooms which home buyers are obliged to pay for.
The Almonte 2-storey Single Home by Holitzner
The
Almonte in Phase 11 of
Hidden Lake Estates is a distinguished 2-storey detached house with an elegant front elevation and floor plans that separate it from many other Ottawa homes consisting of 2,314 finished square feet.
Most of the finished space is allocated to the main level, with a master suite that identifies it as having been designed particularly for the retiring boomer generation. That also distinguishes it from all too many 2-story plans in which wasted and costly space is distributed haphazardly across unnecessarily large upstairs bedrooms which home buyers are obliged to pay for.
In short, this is a better-balanced design than most, because Holitzner's planner is a master craftsman who understands "harmony in the home".
Despite the fact that this is the smallest, and therefore the lowest-priced home in Hidden Lake Estates, its designer has not stinted on his imagination and care to design a beautiful home that anyone would be proud to live in...
Latest New Homes Articles :
Ottawa Housing Predictions for 2010 - and Review of 2009
2009 was a landmark year for the Ottawa housing market. And yet, sales of used homes on MLS in the first quarter were at their lowest level for a decade - so that most home builders were wary of committing themselves to too many building starts and then being left to carry the inventory if sales failed to improve. Several had to reduce prices to stimulate sales.
While the housing market hesitated, the Bank of Canada opened the floodgates by announcing it would maintain its low bank rate at least until the summer of 2010. That gave the go-ahead for an unexpected pent-up demand to burst on the scene, level out, and then heat up again by the end of the third quarter. "Market conditions have turned round so rapidly in Canada", said a National Bank economist, "that they went from a buyers' market to a sellers' market in the blink of an eye"...
Ottawa Mortgage Rate Increases - What comes down must go up
Ominous results may be in store for some borrowers as a result of several banks dropping their interest rates on fixed home loans by 0.25 percentage points in November, while their variable rate remained the same. Borrowers may rightly view this as more free money thrown at the public to tempt them into borrowing more and more in order to enrich the banks.
Fortunately for the banks, they and the public suffer from very short memories - it is not much more than a year ago that the very same attitude plunged the whole world into a financial crisis that everyone - except the banks - are still paying for...
Slashing Ottawa Real Estate Fees
A landmark investigation by the Competition Bureau has concluded that the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) maintains anti-competitive rules which they will have to change, which should result in lower realty commissions and fees.
Up until now, the traditional method to sell your home has been through the services of a professional realtor who specializes in listing your home for other realtors to sell.
While this may seem paradoxical to some sellers, most high-earning real estate sales people know that listing is the name of the game, not selling. The tendency in the real estate industry is therefore to list as many resale homes on MLS as possible and let newcomers to the real estate business do all the necessary running around and showing properties to prospective home buyers...
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