It can be tough to find the perfect home - one within your price point and ideal neighborhood, the perfect size, and complete with an interior that’s actually your style.

Perhaps you find a home you love but can't stand the color scheme they chose for the kitchen or the master bedroom carpet.
Now, imagine being able to customize your home exactly the way you want, complete with your personal touch, modern appliances and construction materials. If this sounds like your dream come true, a new construction home may be exactly what you’re looking for. 

In addition to adding your own personal style, new home construction comes with incentives and advantages that you might not be aware of:

Incentives

Buying a new home usually comes with some incentives. What they are and how many you’re offered will depend upon the builder, of course.

Incentives generally include money toward your options - sometimes, even free upgrades! For example, the home may not come with a washer and dryer, but an incentive may be that these appliances are included. Or, they upgrade your appliances to stainless steel.

You may also receive closing cost assistance or a better home site for a lower price. One of the most popular Central Florida Real Estate is complete with a waterfront view - you may be able to get a lot on the water for a great deal!

The incentives you receive will depend on the builder. Make sure you work with a REALTOR® to be sure you understand your options and negotiate the best deal!

Less Competition

When you’re looking at in an area with a lack of resale home inventory, there’s a higher chance that you’ll be competing with other buyers for the same house. No one wants to be a part of a dreaded bidding war, and with the current state of the Real Estate market, the number of homes for sale on the market has been lower while demand from buyers is still there. Learn more about buying a home in today's market here.

In a market like the one we're currently in, new home construction can be a great answer to those looking to sell their home but are having trouble finding where to move next. When you work with a builder in new construction, you aren’t competing for a new home - you’re building your own!

DIY vs. Done

Make your place your own from the very beginning - there’s no need to live with someone else’s flooring or countertop choices that may not be your style. Choose your ideal paint colors, trim, flooring, and cabinets without the expense and time it would take to customize and remodel a previously owned home.

Make that Pinterest board a reality! Those before and after kitchen photos you see online aren’t done overnight. Remodeling leads to living inconveniently without full access to your appliances. New construction gives you the chance to move right into those granite countertops and hardwood floors.

Fewer Repairs & Higher Quality

A new home means a new, well, everything! New construction and appliances can help lower the chance of necessary repairs. 

When remodeling an older home, you run the risk of finding hazardous materials such as lead paint, asbestos, or mold.

Floridians love their pools, and older pools can be more expensive to maintain. New construction lets you have a pool with a brand new pump, or perhaps a salt water pool instead of chlorine! Overall, a new home means you aren’t buying a previous owner’s problems. Here’s to a clean slate!

Customization

Think about all the ways your home could make your life easier - you can incorporate those things into the plan of your new home! Do you have a large family that loves to get messy? Include a mudroom to confine that mess. Has your laundry room always been on the first floor and you’ve longed for it to be on the second? Now is the time to make it happen. Never have enough room for your shoes? Make yourself an entire shoe closet, why don’t you?

Building a new home gives you the chance to finally make all the changes to your home that you’ve always wanted without the frustration, cost, and inconvenience of remodeling. 

Lifestyle

 
Have you always wished for a pool or a beautiful park to spend your afternoons? Master-planned communities are generally built with lifestyles in mind, giving you amenities, parks, golf courses, and pools. This kind of community is the best way to get the most out of what Florida Real Estate has to offer.

Exercise with ease along biking and hiking trails or in recreational facilities. Stroll along lake-lined sidewalks, or take Fido to the dog park for his play date. When you choose a new home in one of these communities, you’re getting much more than just a home.

A new construction home is your chance to get everything you want and need out of your home. 

Finding your perfect new construction home

When deciding which community, home model, and options are best for you, it may take a bit of shopping around to make sure you don't miss out on just the right home and location for you. 

This can be time-consuming and may even feel overwhelming. That's why at ERA Grizzard, our REALTORS® proudly offer their customers access to their dashboard that makes shopping new construction homes easier.

Explore new home inventory all in one place, versus researching and visiting each builder or community one-by-one to narrow down your favorites. Often, builders aren't listing their new construction homes for sale on the MLS, so the typical search sites might not have everything you need to know when finding the right new construction home for you.

Reach out to your ERA Grizzard REALTOR® today for access to this valuable tool!

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