Homes for sale in Atlanta

People searching for new homes now have a tool to use.  Ashton Woods homes has released a new state-of-the-art smartphone app that incorporates several tools into one easy-to-use package.

Potential homebuyers can use the app to locate nearby communities and look up details such as available homes or driving directions.  Using GPS technology, the app can also alert users when they are close to an Ashton Woods Homes community.  This geofence technology can be customized, allowing homebuyers to receive notifications anywhere from one to 100 miles away from the nearest neighborhood.

The Ashton Woods Homes app also includes a built-in mortgage calculator.  Users enter a few details – income, expenses, mortgage terms, etc. – and receive an estimate of the monthly payment and recommended loan amount.

Homebuyers will also have access to several other features, including a New/Blog tab, videos, social media sharing and the ability to contact sales agents through the app.  Many of the included tools are the same ones used by Ashton Woods Homes sales professionals.

The Ashton Woods Homes app is currently available for free for iPhone and Android devices.  It can be downloaded in the Apple App Store and the Android Market.

For more information, visit http://www.ashtonwoodshomes.com/salespro/index.php

Ashton Woods has done it again!  This time quality homes are springing up in desirable Suwanee at Belmore Manor, a gated community of only 45 homes.  Each 4 bedroom, 2 and a half bathroom home has many options to choose from and can become as large as 4,500+ square feet.  Options like changing a study to a guest suite, 3rd floor walk-ups, 3rd car garages and finished basements allow the purchaser to create the home of their dreams!  Belmore Manor offers seven distinctive floorplans with traditional exteriors, private yards, and open, flowing floorplans with prices beginning as low as the $220,000s.

Of course, all homes in Belmore Manor have modern amenities.  Advantages like nine-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, trey ceilings in the master bedroom and dining room, and two car garages are prevalent.  For the heart of the home, the kitchen, there is maple cabinetry with crown molding, granite countertops, undermount stainless steel sink and energy-efficient appliances including microwaves.  The luxury master suite bath includes a garden tub and separate shower with a seat, tile floors and voluminous walk in closets with ventilated shelving.

The Belmore Manor model home, The Whitmore,  is ready to give you a taste of what the community has to offer with its large island kitchen, huge family room, butler’s pantry off of the formal dining room, and a study or guest bedroom on main.  The upper floor has a master suite fit for a twenty-first century king with trey ceiling, doubly vanities, garden tub, and separate shower.  Three additional bedrooms, all with walk-in closets and central laundry room fill out the upper floor.  All of that within 3,160 square feet.

Atlanta living in a high quality construction gated community has never been so easy.  To visit this stunning community, call Julie Gentry at 770.945.6168 or visit www.ashtonwoodshomes.com/atlanta.

Ashton Woods Homes is excited to announce the opening of our new model home at The Enclave on Johns Creek, a select new community of only 14 luxury homes.  With  three homes sold Grand Opening weekend, this community is sure to sell out quickly!  These traditional style homes are two stories with four bedrooms, three and a half baths, and range from 3,255 to 3,895+ square feet.  This brand new community allows for home personalization on a grand scale while still maintaining the high Ashton Woods Homes quality standards.

The model home, the Wesley, has the master on the main opening to a deck with a luxury bath featuring double vanities and a huge walk-in closet.  The main floor includes a large family room open to the kitchen island, a breakfast room, a separate living room, a formal dining room and a second bedroom and bath.  The second floor has two additional bedrooms and a bath with the option of a fifth bedroom and a fourth bath.  Other options include a third car garage and a bay window in the family room.

All homes at The Enclave on Johns Creek have all the advantages you can expect from state-of-the-art design:  10 foot ceilings on main, gourmet kitchens with maple cabinets, granite countertops and backsplash, stainless steel appliances, elegant master suites with trey ceilings, enormous walk-in closets, and garden tubs.  Even better, you’ll enjoy all of this and feel great both about Ashton Woods’ earth-friendly design principles and energy-efficient measures that can save you up to 42% on annual energy use.

The community backs up to the natural setting of Johns Creek, and each home will have plenty of space with a half-acre or larger homesite.  Parents will rest easy knowing their children are experiencing top-tier education in the highly regarded Chattahoochee High School District.  You would never believe how easy it is to reach Highway 141 and Georgia 400 with how quiet and secluded the neighborhood is, and commuters can find the best of both worlds here in comfort and convenience. 

To experience the model and seize your opportunity to join this select community, contact Becky Huffstetler at 770.346.0871 or visit www.ashtonwoodshomes.com/atlanta.

New Superheroes Campaign Touts Smartphone App, Home Buying “Tools”

(Atlanta GA — January 18, 2012) Ashton Woods Homes, a premiere builder of eco-friendly and energy-efficient new homes recently announced the launch of their new “Super Homes for Super People” marketing campaign which includes a state-of-the-art smartphone app, superhero-style comic book and other edgy collateral material designed to attract and assist targeted prospective homebuyers in finding their new home.

The smartphone app for iPhone and Android includes typical app features like community and individual property listings and details, elevations, videos, news feed and brief content about Ashton Woods Homes – all fed, in real-time, to the app from the company’s back-end data systems.

The app also includes a set of financial calculators to help prospective buyers determine how much home they can afford, how much they can save in utilities and even how they can pay down their mortgage in less than 30-years. Prospects can also easily identify the homes they like, save them in the app, email them, and even share them on their social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

But, the real wizardry in the app comes from how the GPS feature is being used to aid home buying prospects. The app includes a geofence which is a virtual perimeter around a specific location. When this virtual perimeter is crossed; for example, when an app user drives by an Ashton Woods community, they receive a real-time message on their screen, alerting them; providing community-specific information, text directions and/or encouraging them to stop in at the local community.

“In developing the Ashton Woods Homes native app, we took into consideration all of the distinct ways our client’s customers would desire information about nearby new home communities, and in doing so, empowered prospective homebuyers to get the information they need quickly and efficiently,” stated Erik Jensen, ASTRALCOM Chief Technology Officer.

Additionally, wherever an app user is, they can map immediate driving directions from their current location to any of the Ashton Woods Homes communities nearby.

Tad Serbin, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Ashton Woods Homes explained that the app enables a smartphone to provide exact directions to every Ashton Woods Community from anywhere in the United States and that the app will alert users when they are within close proximity of any Ashton Woods Homes community.

“Ashton Woods Homes is excited to be able to help homebuyers by providing a smartphone app that delivers a clear benefit in helping them find our homes and communities easier,” stated Mr. Serbin. “We wanted to also empower homebuyers by allowing them to utilize the same analysis calculators and other comparison tools that our onsite Super Sales Professionals use in helping educate people on making the right home buying decisions,” explained Mr. Serbin.

More home buying tools are integrated into the app: “Our app will help provide affordability, energy efficiency and monthly payment analysis and at the push of a button, anyone is elevated to superhero house hunting status”, explained Mr. Serbin. “The new app turns all prospective buyers and resale agents into an Ashton Woods’ new home shopping superhero!” he added.

Other informative and fun elements in the “Super Homes for Super People” campaign include a superhero-themed comic book for all family members and superhero cape for kids, which are both available at local Ashton Woods Homes communities.

The smartphone app can be downloaded FREE from Android and Apple app stores, or by visiting www.ashtonwoodshomes.com/superhomes. Ashton Woods Homes also has a mobile website for Blackberry users available from the URL above.

About Ashton Woods Homes

Ashton Woods Homes is one of the nation’s largest private homebuilding companies with operations in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Killeen, Orlando, Phoenix, Raleigh, San Antonio, and Tampa. For more information, visit http://www.ashtonwoodshomes.com.

Ashton Woods Homes earns award for building new homes that protect the environment through energy efficiency

Atlanta, GA July 13, 2011

Ashton Woods Homes is pleased to announce that it has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a 2011 ENERGY STAR Leadership in Housing Award. This award recognizes the important contribution Ashton Woods Homes has made to energy-efficient construction and environmental protection by building more than 949 ENERGY STAR qualified homes last year. Collectively, these homes will save our customers approximately $424,203 on utility bills each year. 
   
The environmental benefits of these ENERGY STAR qualified homes are equal to the equivalent of:

• Eliminating the emissions from 465 vehicles;
• Saving 2,812,836 lbs of coal;
• Planting 769 acres of trees; or
• Saving the environment 5,516,537 pounds of CO2 per year.

To earn the ENERGY STAR, a home must meet strict guidelines for energy efficiency set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. These homes are at least 20% more efficient than standard new homes built today.

“We have always been on the leading edge of providing our customers a healthier, more energy-efficient home. Ashton Woods Homes is proud to be a leader in the industry and committed to building environmentally friendly homes,” stated Ralph Farrell Sr. VP of Operations.

ENERGY STAR qualified homes offer homebuyers all the features they want in a new home, plus energy-saving features like effective insulation systems, high performance windows, tight construction and ducts, properly-sized and installed efficient heating and cooling equipment, efficient products, and third-party verification of energy performance.
“The value you get from an ENERGY STAR Qualified Home goes far beyond energy efficiency,” said Sam Rashkin, National Director for EPA’s ENERGY STAR Homes Program. “ENERGY STAR Qualified homes provide more comfort, durability, and a healthier environment than homes built to code. On top of that, they’re tested and inspected to perform.”

Last year alone, with the help of ENERGY STAR and partners, Americans saved about $18 billion on their utility bills and avoided greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of 33 million vehicles. Nearly 1.2 million ENERGY STAR homes have been built in the United States since the program first began labeling homes in 1995.

About Ashton Woods Homes

Ashton Woods Homes is one of the nation’s largest private homebuilding companies, with operations in Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta, Raleigh, Dallas, Houston, Austin and Phoenix. For more information, visit http://www.ashtonwoodshomes.com.

About ENERGY STAR

ENERGY STAR was introduced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through increased energy efficiency. Today, ENERGY STAR offers businesses and consumers energy-efficient solutions to save energy, money and help protect the environment for future generations. More than 126,000 new homes were constructed to meet ENERGY STAR guidelines in 2010, by partners committed to improving the energy efficiency of products, homes, buildings and businesses. For more information about ENERGY STAR, visit http://www.energystar.gov or call toll-free 1-888-STAR-YES (1-888-782-7937).

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) May 17, 2011

Ashton Woods Homes, a premier builder of eco-friendly and energy efficient new homes today announced recently achieving the Builder 100’s Top-10 Private Companies.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Ashton Woods builds high-performance homes for sale in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Orlando, Phoenix, Tampa and Raleigh growth communities. Close to jobs, shopping and transportation, Ashton Woods effectively balances healthy-house features with energy efficiency in their Power House Green homes for sale – which could save homeowners as much as 45% per year on utility bills.

Every year, BUILDER magazine asks the nation’s builders to provide their sales and closings. The Builder 100 list is an annual compilation of the largest homebuilders in the country. The Builder 100’s Top-10 Private List is comprised separately of for-profit, private builders.

The article, written by Builder magazine’s senior editor, John Caulfield, points out that, “Georgia-based Ashton Woods USA converted $125 million of its public debt to private debt, which appears to have given this company breathing room to grow. The company has since expanded its operations into Raleigh, N.C., and Austin, Texas. Ken Balogh, a former Centex executive who was Ashton Woods’ COO, was promoted to CEO after Tom Krobot, who had held that post since 1995, retired on Dec. 31, 2010.”

The Builder 100’s Top-10 Private List is a milestone achievement for Ashton Woods as it continues to earn recognition, awards and accolades – from industry experts and customers alike – for its energy-efficient and affordable new homes for sale.

As recently as March 2011, Ashton Woods made the cover story of Big Builder magazine, which proclaimed Ashton Woods as having the right business model, management talent, experience and funding which allows them to capitalize on current market conditions and be well positioned for new market conditions going forward.

“With our ‘Power House Green’ and ‘Yours Personally, Ashton’ incentives, we’re hitting the right balance of new home science and design,” stated Tad Serbin, Senior VP, Sales & Marketing. “We’ve also adopted the Department of Energy’s E-Scale Home Energy Rating System to help educate homebuyers on the utility savings when comparing an Ashton Woods home to other new and used homes,” added Mr. Serbin.

Read the Builder magazine article at http://tinyurl.com/PrivateTop-10List, or visit Ashton Woods Homes at http://www.ashtonwoodshomes.com.

About Ashton Woods Homes

Ashton Woods Homes is one of the nation’s largest private homebuilding companies, with operations in Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta, Raleigh, Dallas, Houston, Austin and Phoenix. Visit http://www.ashtonwoodshomes.com for more information.