5 OBIE’s for Richport Properties
Richport Wins OBIE Awards
Richport Properties is celebrating 5 OBIE awards.
It is a tremendous honor to be recognized by the Atlanta Sales and Marketing Council for the attention to detail in every home and community we build. Richport’s OBIE’s include three Gold Awards:
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Brookline - Single Family Builder, Detached $199,999 and under
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New Rockbridge - Single Family Builder, Attached $150,000 to $199,999
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Davis Oaks - Single Family Attached - Urban Redevelopment/Revitalization $500,000 to $749,999
And two Silver OBIE’s:
- Davis Oaks - Amenity Package less that 499 units/total build out
- Davis Oaks - Best Building Design - Attached Model -$375,000 to $499,999
HomeAid Atlanta’s First Annual Angel Tree
It is the holiday season, almost, which has always been considered a time for giving. HomeAid Atlanta, the non-profit organization of the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association, has created a fundraising event to help provide holiday gifts to local homeless families living in transitional housing facilities. However, they cannot conquer this task alone, and they need your help. It’s incredibly simple to donate to this exceptional cause, just visit the Housing Center in Tucker, select an angel from the tree, sign out your angel and then return your gift by December 15th. Or, to make the process even easier, you can have an angel from the tree emailed to you - just contact Jennifer Folkers at jen_homeaid@atlantahomebuilders.com. (Continued…)
North Cobb County is One of the Best Places to Sell a House
Forbes Magazine has released a list of the top 10 best suburbs to sell a house and Kennesaw, GA made it in at #4. This Forbes list is based on time-on-market, price trends and the percentage of sellers who cut prices. Kennesaw’s stats are pretty impressive with the median days on the market at 104, median home price $241,196 and 41% sellers are decreasing prices. These numbers may not seem extremely positive in a normal market, but for today’s housing industry they are strong. Plus, while many sellers are decreasing the price of homes, they aren’t dropping the price as drastically as other metro Atlanta areas. For this reason, real estate agents that sell in Kennesaw are not surprised to see it in the top five of this list.
In this buyer’s market, home shoppers have the privilege of being extremely picky in their home search. (Continued…)
Kingston on Lake Oconee Welcomes First ‘Homeowners’
Future homeowners have already been secured at the golf course community, Kingston on Lake Oconee. Technically, there aren’t any homeowners yet because neither homesites nor homes have been released for sale, but Kingston on Lake Oconee does have a priority registration list, and it already has 26 names on it! Reservation holders are placed on a priority list and will select their home sites on a first-come-first-served basis. We got a chance to pick the brain on two reservation holders as to get a better understanding of their interest in Kingston on Lake Oconee - David Arnold, president of The Partnership, a marketing firm in Atlanta, and reservation holder number three; and Louie Carter, president of Grayson Homes and reservation holder number 24.
“We always knew that we wanted to retire on a lake someday, and we had previously looked at homes on Lake Oconee,” (Continued…)
