Many Alabama home buyers today who want to escape the hustle-and-bustle of busy metropolitan areas are finding Auburn, Alabama to be a welcome alternative. Located just 60 miles from Montgomery, Auburn is a thriving college town, home of Auburn University, offering plenty of things to do and great value for the money. Lowder New Homes…

Making the choice to become an Alabama homeowner is just the first of a long string of potential life-altering decisions you will make over the next few months, hopefully culminating with moving into your dream home. One of the first choices to make is whether to buy an existing home or to buy a new…

If you’re getting ready to buy your first home, you might be wondering whether it’s better for you to buy an existing home or a newly constructed home. Conventional wisdom suggests that new, younger home buyers should be looking at “starter homes” or “fixer-uppers,” but recent trends show that larger numbers of millennials are choosing…

Many homebuyers start their process with a question: Do I want to buy an existing home or do I want to build a new construction? There is a third option some buyers overlook, and that is the option to buy a move-in ready new construction — that is, a newly built home that has no…

Home buyers have quite a few options when it comes to purchasing a home. Budget-conscious buyers often lean toward the typical “fixer-upper” home as opposed to a new construction. Their logic is that older homes are usually priced a bit lower, and these buyers figure they can get the home they want by applying a…

If you thought the Millennial generation was only interested in the city life, think again. According to revealing data shared by Realtor.com and the National Association of Realtors, the past several years have seen Millennials settling in small-town America in larger and larger numbers. Last year, according to the 2018 Home Buyer and Seller Generational…

In times like these when the housing market is thriving, a unique situation often happens: home inventories begin to drop. With fewer homes on the market and buyers clamoring for more, builders often start building “spec” homes — new construction homes that have not yet been sold — to keep up with the demand. These…

As the economy and housing markets continue their upward movement from the recession of 2008, new home construction and sales are taking huge leaps forward compared with the rest. According to a recent report by Marketwatch, new home sales reached new highs at the end of the year, driven by an increase in consumer confidence….

As Alabama’s housing sector continues to grow and thrive, an interesting trend is emerging as a significant number of people are stepping into the market for the very first time. First-time homebuyers have been dominating the Alabama housing market in recent months, showing numbers that haven’t been seen in nearly two decades. The trend follows…