An advantage to working with me as your agent, is that I go around regularly and visit new home sites all over the area, gathering information and updating what I have previously found.  I've also shown these communities to buyers, and I have helped them contract for homes in some of them. I will share what I have found, and will update with new information as I have it.

Part of your success in a new home purchase is education:

The build-out time varies depending on weather, possible delays in the building permit process, and what stage your new home is in when you contract for it. Be aware this time frame is independent of the time it takes to secure a building permit; and it could be even longer if the developer has yet to release the lots to the builder!

Spec homes are homes that a builder proceeds to build, gambling that it will sell. In the current market, it usually does! If you happen onto such a home, depending on the stage of completion of any given house, you may or may not have time for your personal input regarding design changes or color choices.  The prices of these homes average around the $200,000 and up range for single family detached, upper 180,000's for attached dwellings.

Lot premiums, options not included in the base price of the homes, and price hikes due to brisk sales are not always factored into those amounts! Various builders price their products different ways, and there is no standard way of doing this...often it is a marketing choice of how to present the price of homes to buyers.  Sometimes this is driven by rising costs of materials, labor, and land...you might pick up marketing materials with base prices and features printed, a plat of the community, and supplemental sheets printed and added/updated periodically for options as builders' costs increase.  Also, the base price will increase, sometimes dramatically, from what you see in printed and internet ads, when sales are brisk.  Print ad deadlines are as much as a month in advance of printing; things change a \lot in this market in a month!  This is one reason why you might see one price range advertised, but when you visit a community, you are given another range.

Hampton Roads offers golf course communities, and waterfront/water access communities, custom building, in the upper price ranges if you are looking for and willing to afford more features. Landfall at Jamestown, Ford's Colony, Governor's Land, Kingsmill, Gatling Pointe all offer elegance of both architecture and lifestyle. Plus, there are condos, townhomes, and active retirement living...

I do not represent these communities; other agents do. For that reason, the names of the communities and photos are not featured; they are not my listings to advertise. The new home sites have a representative of the builder, and they have the right to showcase them specifically. I do have information on them and others, though, and I can help you sort through what is available, at a price and completion time that you need it. Call or email me with your requests, and please see "about your buyer agent" for more information about why it makes sense to have your own agent when buying a new home

Photos are a composite, not of a specific active listing, for illustrative purposes only. If you would like floor plans or actual photos, interiors, etc., please click on my email address in the box below and let me know what you request. I look forward to hearing from you!