Open House For Custom Homes This Weekend

This weekend, The Woodlands Custom Homes will host an open house. The Village of Sterling Ridge will have four homes open for viewing. Also, One home in the "Garden District" of The Woodlands Town Center, bordering 200-acre Lake Woodlands, East Shore, will be open.

Village of Sterling Ridge:

Address: 6 N. Player Crest

Builder: George Weaver, Inc.

Area: 6,000 square feet

Price: $1,220,000

Amenities: 5 bedrooms, 5-2/2 bathrooms, 3-car garage, pool allowance

Open: Saturday, August 1, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. & Sunday, August 2, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Address: 10 N. Player Crest

Builder: George Weaver, Inc.

Area: 5,526 square feet

Price: $1,065,000

Amenities: 5 bedrooms, 5- 2/2 baths, 3-car garage

Open: Saturday, August 1, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. & Sunday, August 2, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Address: 19 N. Player Crest

Builder: Tommy Bailey Homes, Inc.

Area: 5,114 square feet

Price: $1,114,000

Amenities: 5 bedrooms, 5-1/2 baths, 4-car garage

Open: Saturday and Sunday, August 1-2, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Address: 14 Sterling Dale

Builder: Hann Builders

Area: 6,426 square feet

Price: $1,750,000

Amenities: 4 bedrooms (could convert to 5 bedrooms), 5-2/2 baths, 3-car garage

Open: Saturday, August 1, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

East Shore:

Address: 6 Georgian Row

Builder: John Post Homes, LLC

Area: 9,000 square feet

Price: $2,695,000

Open: Sunday, August 2, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

ASID Showhouse

The Grand Opening of the ASID 08 Showhouse in East Shore The Woodlands was last weekend and it attracted more than 500 people. The Showhouse is a $2,675,000 Southern Colonial home by Post Homes, Ltd. it was set in the "Garden District" of The Woodlands Town Center.

The beautiful home was designed by over 20 members of the American Society of Interior Designers Gulf Coast Chapter, each room was created by a different designer making the home even more amazing and breathtaking.

The ASID Showhouse is located at 6 Georgian Row in the Colonial Park neighborhood of East Shore. This home features many magnificent details including low-VOC paints, sustainable materials, recycled glass tiles and flooring made from wine barrels.

The furnishings and accessories will be sold at the Showhouse. It will remain open through Sunday, November 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. This Showhouse benefits the GastroEsophageal Cancer Foundation, Inc. and tickets are sold at the door for $15.

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The Woodlands Offers $2,000 to New Homebuyers

On October 25, 2008 The Woodlands started a special holiday promotion that offers a $2,000 Woodforest National Bank MasterCard to new home buyers of selected homes in the community if they purchased by December 31, 2008 and close by February 28, 2009.

"Home for the Holidays" is the name of this new program which is also offering incentives of up to $50,000 from nearly all The Woodlands homebuilders. The homes that pertain to this program have a price range from the $150,000 to more than $3 million. The buyer will also receive a free one-year family membership to the South Montgomery County YMCA. The Woodlands has two YMCA branches with a third new facility opening next year in the Village of Creekside Park.

Creekside Park is where many of the homes in the program are available, Sterling Ridge and East Shore also has some of these homes.

Some of the Builder's incentives include:

- Carlton Woods Properties - $2,000 American Express gift card with the purchase of a new home

- Carmel Builders - $15,000 in custom options on all homes

- Chesmar Homes - $10,000 off the sales price for homes not started by 10/25/08 that can close by 2/28/09, or up to $20,000 off the price on select inventory homes

- Coventry Homes - $5,000 in custom options on all homes; No electric payments for two years on all homes; $2,000 Best Buy gift card on completed homes.

- Darling Homes - $15,000 towards personalizing your Darling home

- David Weekley Homes - $15,000 decorator allowance

- Gracepoint Homes - $10,000 towards upgrades to the buyer and $1,500 BTSA for the Realtor when the buyer builds a new home

- Highland Homes - $15,000 off the sales price

- Huntington Homes - $50,000 off the sales price

- Lennar Homes - $10,000 discount on selected homes

- Partners in Building - $20,000 in designer upgrades with a new home purchase in Player Trail

- Plantation Homes - $5,000 in custom options on all homes; No electric payments for two years on all homes; $2,000 Best Buy gift card on completed homes

- Southern Mark Homes - $7,000 in custom upgrades

- Trendmaker Homes - $10,000 Design Center allowance on select inventory homes;

- Village Builders - $10,000 discount on selected homes

- Wilshire Homes - $15,000 decorator allowance at Wilshire's Design Center

- The Woodlands Custom Homes - $10,000 off the sales price of selected completed homes or $10,000 towards closing costs.

The buyer should notify the Home finder Center after the closing and make arrangements to redeem their $2,000 MasterCard and YMCA gift certificate by March 31, 2009.

Source: www.thewoodlands.net

Stonemark Builders in East Shore in The Woodlands

East Shore is a 260 acre enclave that borders the eastern edge of Lake Woodlands. It is known as the "Garden District" of The Woodlands Town Center and it brings together classic architecture, green spaces, formal garden parks and much more.

Location is one of the many attributes of East Shore because it is located within walking distance from many major local attractions which feature shopping, dining and entertainment along The Woodlands Waterway.

An acclaimed builder is getting ready to break ground on the La Costa Garden Homes. This will be a beautiful and exclusive neighborhood with red tile roofs and breath taking stucco exteriors which will from a lakeside village and will feature convenient location being within walking distance of the shores of Lake Woodlands. La Costa Garden Homes will include 42 garden homes in 14, two-story building with prices starting from the high $300's.

These buildings are designed to surround a courtyard garden which will connect three different and gorgeous floor plans. The floor plans will offer different styles including downstairs master bedrooms, private studies, elevator options and attached two car garages. Each and ever floor plan will have its own outdoor patio or terrace.

La Costa will be the only project of East Shore to have its own private resident amenities including a central community pool and spa, covered cabana and outdoor grill for residents, 24 hour security patrols and landscape maintenance.

The Villas in East Shore in The Woodlands, Texas has also been created by Stonemark and it includes 25, three story single family detached residences with detached, rear accessed three car garages. The Villas provides the buyers the opportunity to re-design their interiors to fit their personal tastes and style.

We're The Woodlands Real Estate Specialists!! Contact us today at (832) 482-9367 and our Broker Associate Luis Tamborrel or any of our agents can answer your questions.

Source: www.thewoodlands.net

Masonry Award presented for work in East Shore

The Masonry Award was presented to Hogatt LP for their work in East Shore. Hogatt LP , a masonry contractor who has been designing several architectural features that are present in The Woodlands' Lakefront urban Community known as East Shore. The firm recently won the Landscape Project of the Year Award that was presented by Masonry Construction Magazine.

Several textures, colors and patterns were used in this project including Cheyenne sandstone, Cheyenne flagstone and Cimarron limestone. This firm created the stone entryway, a circular-shaped plaza at Colonial Park and the bridge in East Shore in the Woodlands and by their incredible work, they won this acclaimed award. Hogatt LP was already a Golden Trowel Award winner in a statewide competition at the Texas Masonry Council's Annual Convention in August of 2007.

Source: www.thewoodlands.net

La Costa Garden in East Shore The Woodlands

Stonemark Builders LLC will begin construction this spring for La Costa Garden homes in East Shore, the Garden District of The Woodlands Town Center.

Inspired by Mission-Style architecture, the properties at La Costa are designed to form a lakeside village within walking distance of the shore of 200 acre Lake Woodlands.
The enclave will be near Olmstead Park in East Shore on a site that is bounded by Lake Front Circle to the west, Shell Port Square to the north and Woodlands Parkway to the south.

La Costa includes 42 condominiums in 14 two-story buildings. Each building is designed around a courtyard garden that connects three unique floor plans in each building, each with an attached two-car garage. Three distinctive designs are featured. Prices will range from the high $300's.

"La Costa will be the only project in East Shore Park with its own amenities. Stonemark has done an outstanding job of designing this enclave in the setting of East Shore. We have gotten very good feedback on the designs from Realtors and prospects, and feel that La Costa will be very popular with home buyers", Driggers said.

La Costa includes 42 condominiums in 14 two-story buildings, priced from the high $300's.