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...

Garden Grove – The Phan’s are just one of a discerning group of people who realized it was the right time to buy a new home and Pomelo was the right choice; with its central location in Garden Grove, new upscale features and two car garages with full driveways. Happy with their decision, the Phan family is settling...

Garden Grove – Hien and Jamie Bui are thrilled to have taken the step from renting to owning a new home at Stonecourt. “Interesting how a single moment can change your life. We had no intention of buying a new home but we stopped in to see the model home at Stonecourt. From the moment we walked in the door, we knew...

Bungalows Development Will Mix Two- and Three-Story Homes Priced From the low-$400,000s to the mid-$500,000s RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. – June 27, 2011 – Brandywine Homes will enter the Rancho Santa Margarita market with a 66-unit townhome community, the company announced today after closing a deal on four...

Panel on ‘Filling a Void With Urban Infill’ is Part of The Show’s Innovation Strategy Forum in San Francisco IRVINE, Calif. – June 13, 2011 – Brett Whitehead, president of Brandywine Homes, will participate in a panel discussion on Filling a Void With Urban Infill during the PCBC Show’s Innovation...

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...

Garden Grove – The homes at Pomelo are experiencing a great sales pace and new homeowners are already moving in! Thu Cuc and Gary Steinke are one of these happy new owners, they recently purchased a new detached home at Pomelo and are getting ready to move-in. The Steinke’s had so many wonderful things to say about...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...