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Verdae Greenville – Masterplan

posted on : September 27, 2021 posted by : John Murphy 0 Comment
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Here’s a helpful link to the Masterplan for the Verdae development in Greenville, SC. This has been an ongoing development for years. They plan to have more than 10,000 residents and more than 550 businesses in this development when it’s completed. It’s the largest development in the history of Greenville. It is continuing to be developed today.

It’s exciting to see the continued growth in Greenville both in terms of housing, businesses and large employers. Here’s the main link to the Verdae Community and Development.

New Construction

12 Predictions for Home Building

posted on : January 30, 2020 0 Comment

Builder Magazine recently published an excellent article by industry expert, George Casey titled, “12 Predictions for Home Building.” The home building industry has recovered since the housing market crash of 2008 but we are still no where near the levels we should be at or near anything like where we were prior to the crash. There are many reasons why the industry has not fully recovered but we have to come up with innovative ways now to get back to building more housing.

There are lots of takeaways from Mr. Casey’s piece, but a couple of things particularly standout in my mind:

  1. More of the home building process will move to the factory where we’ll have more pre-built homes that will be assembled on site. This will help drive down costs as well as deal with the labor shortage
  2. Builders, developers and REALTORS need to work closely with government officials to help come up with more innovative housing options. What you see right now is often the result of current regulations. A big area of opportunity will be in redeveloping or converting large homes in to multi-unit rentals.
  3. Trends in terms of government incentives is no longer driving people toward homeownership…new rental models need to be considered. We’ll likely see new kinds of companies, players, investors, JVs come in to play to make this work…might even see triple net leases with longer terms for rental housing. Interesting.

Anyway, there’s a lot in the article by Mr. Casey. I would highly recommend you take the time to read it.

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