When every home in your development has a view of either the community park, the surrounding desert mountain or the city lights of Las Vegas, you may expect brisk sales.
Someone said that sameness is the mother of disgust, and variety is the cure.
It can sometimes be difficult to give surburban home buyers the sense they are living in the open country -- especially when they want thebest of city life nearby.
Maryland builder/developer emphasizes the land-planning part of green building and has formed the Earth Society to teach others.
No on knows for sure why the luxury home market in Florida is on such a binge.
The following sources offer more information about sustainable land planning and green building
In a typical house, the quality of indoor air can be up to ten times worse than the air outdoors.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
This is a tale of the lessons learned from four communities: the quarter century old Village Homes in Tucson, Ariz.; the grand plans of Coffee Creek Center in Chesterton, Ind., and the urban infill Village in Armory Park, also in Tucson.