Briar Chapel is one of the largest green communities in the Triangle, and our sustainability initiatives continue to improve each year. Check out our Q1 sustainability update.
Each quarter, our partner Southern Energy Management releases an energy savings report for Briar Chapel, highlighting the community and home savings from our green building program.
As you’re finding your perfect home, how do you decide on the right layout? Here are questions to ask when choosing a floor plan for you and your family.
We understand the challenges and benefits of working from home; here are our top tips to curate an office space and to structure your work time for maximum productivity.
Efficiently downsizing your lifestyle during a move. Whether you’re moving from a large home to a townhome, or an empty nester looking to streamline, downsizing is a common path for many homebuyers.
A gorgeous complex joins our community. Briar Chapel and Blue Heron Asset Management are launching one of the first large-scale, high-end apartment complexes on the 15-501 Corridor.
Delightful designs found in Briar Chapel homes. When designing your primary bedroom, take note of these delightful design trends that promise to be hot in 2020.
Everyone wants to live in the home of his or her dreams, but it's best to take first thing's first - Decide on a home plan that fits your needs and budget.
Don't miss out on this great time to buy a home! This drop in rates gives you more purchasing power to lock in lower monthly payments and purchase more home for your money.
The award-winning New Homes and Ideas Magazine featured Briar Chapel as a prominent master-planned community, exploring the ins and outs of its mixed-use lifestyle.
Briar Chapel and Wendell Falls, the Triangle’s master-planned communities by Newland Communities, topped the Triangle Parade of Homes with nine combined awards.
1) Personalize Your Home Structural choices: additional bedrooms, home offices, dens, extended patios, casitas, and more. Design choices: cabinets, counter tops, appliances, flooring, luxurious bathrooms and more.
With spring right around the corner, there's no better time to spruce up your outdoor living space than our Greenest Open House, slated for March 21st, 2015!
I had a chance to sit down and chat with Joe Norwood, the Lennar representative for Briar Chapel. Read on to hear what he had to say, from green building to the homebuying process.
Open houses are fun, especially when there's a lot to see. Lucky for you, we're hosting Chapel Hill's Largest and Greenest Open House! Come to Briar Chapel and view 40+ move-in ready homes of all size and price ranges.
With seven entries in this years Green Home Tour, the builders at Briar Chapel really stepped it up. This means more of the green-built homes you love but less driving around. Come out and see us!
MorningStar Homes has been carefully crafting beautiful living spaces in this area. Helping set the stage for a lifetime of memories in your new home, in 2010 they began offering their expertise to homebuyers in Briar Chapel.
In addition to being a wonderful employer, Homes by Dickerson also makes the homebuying experience seamless for their customers. Vice President of Construction Brant Chesson tells us how.
First it was Greece –and now Italy. The markets have their sights set on Europe these days – and US Treasury Yields have been dropping again due to the uncertainty surrounding the European Debt Crisis. Mortgage Rates, which tend to follow the direction of Yield movement, continue to hover within a very attractive range.
When it comes to the 2011 Parade of Homes, an appetizer just wasn't quite enough. We should first start by congratulating our Parade Winners: Homes by Dickerson for Gold and David Weekley Homes for Silver.
Global Concerns, Domestic Uncertainty, Housing Headwinds and Increasing Jobless Claims. These and other economic subjects seem to be dominating the headlines. The silver lining for housing is that Mortgage Rates are at 60 Year Lows - but can low rates really be a silver bullet?
August is usually a relatively calm month for trading and economic data as most of Washington is out on vacation, and the markets tend to stay within a narrow trading range. But certainly not this year!!
Homes By Dickerson has just broken ground on several home sites along the Dark Forest Drive cul-de-sac. Because of the unique nature of the street configuration, there are some real differences in possible home citing here.
I wanted to start off the month talking about jobs here in the Triangle. While the National story is certainly nothing to write home about, the Triangle jobs picture is much healthier than its National counterpart.
Hello and welcome to the View from the Porch Housing and Mortgage Blog - I'm Jeremy Salemson, Chief Executive Officer of Corporate Investors Mortgage Group, Inc. We're a boutique Mortgage Bank helping homeowners achieve their dreams throughout the Triangle and North Carolina.
At Briar Chapel, everyone home must pass a final inspection in order to receive its Energy Star Certification. Why is this certification important? Because there are discounts provided by Progress Energy/Duke Energy and PSNC for homes that are Energy Star certified.
As we make our way into 2011 - isn't it time we heard from our favorite frog blogger? Well, we were lucky enough to catch up with him as he shared "everything you wanted to know about a green home but were afraid to ask"...enjoy!
