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  • Brandywine Homes to Build 66-Townhomes in Rancho Santa Margarita

      BY LAUREN GIUDICE, OC METRO MAGAZINEBrandywine Homes, a family owned residential homebuilder based in Irvine, is going to build a 66-unit townhome community in Rancho Santa Margarita. Construction will begin in early 2012 and the entire $31 million project will be completed in 2015. The complex, called Bungalows,...
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  • 66 New Homes Set for Rancho Santa Margarita

    BY JOHNATHAN LANSER AND JEFF COLLINS, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Brandywine Homes will build 66 townhomes on the site of an old religious school in Rancho Santa Margarita. The $31 million project called “Bungalows” will comprise 11 buildings at 30482 Avenida De Las Banderas — near the popular IHOP restaurant. Home...
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  • One Word: Flexibility by David Barisic

    One Word:  Flexibility Flexibility is a concept not often associated with the business of homebuilding.  By nature, the process of acquiring land, entitling it for development, constructing, building and selling homes is long and arduous.  Even more so today than 10 years ago, just the time spent entitling...
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  • Residential Real Estate Notebook

    BY LESLIE BERKMAN, BIZ PRESS Home builders nationwide have a lot riding on the long awaited spring home selling season and are doing all they can to lure in buyers. That's what the Builder online report found in an informal survey of 20 home builders. The survey discovered that although plenty of people are visiting...
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  • Lansner on Real Estate “Builders unfazed by new home sales drop”

    BY JON LANSNER, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER The U.S. Commerce Department reported this past week that new home sales in the nation fell to the lowest level in February in at least 48 years. Sales of new homes plunged in February to an annual rate of 250,000, the Commerce Department said. That’s the lowest monthly...
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  • BJ’s, Townhomes Closer to Becoming a Reality

    BY MARTIN HENDERSON, RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA PATCH Rancho Santa Margarita came a little closer to getting a new restaurant and a new residential area on Wednesday when the city’s Planning Commission approved plans for a BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse and the Rancho Santa Margarita Townhomes. The commission voted to...
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  • Drawing Crowds

    BY JOHN CLAUFIELD, BUILDER Dave Barisic vice president of Brandywine Homes Irvine, Calif. After we carefully research our home buying audience for one of our developments, we may continue with traditional advertising (depending on the demographic) or branch out into social media. In 2011, we will be creating a...
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  • Builders Bet on Internet and Social Marketing to Boost Spring Sales

    Marketing new homes over the Internet, especially through social media, has come so far in recent years that it will be the primary marketing strategy for most builders this spring. And no one seems to consider this an especially big leap of faith. When we asked three builders for the March issue of Builder how they...
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  • La Mirada Works Deal With Brandywine To Bring 42 New Homes To Former Shopping Center

    BY TRACY GARDIA, LONG BEACH PRESS TELEGRAM LA MIRADA - The city and Brandywine Homes have agreed to a development deal that will bring 42 new single-family homes to the four-acre site that used to house the former Alondra Center. Irvine-based Brandywine Homes has agreed to pay nearly $5.9 million to the city's...
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  • 5 Trends In Infill Housing

    BY SUSAN BADY, PROFESSIONAL BUILDER As demand for new housing in established neighborhoods increases, home builders are finding ways to create marketable projects on smaller infill sites.
    5 trends in infill housing