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Excerpt: Work progresses on home for a hero! These are difficult times for anyone in America's real estate industry, and they're especially tough for home builders and developers involved in new home construction. But that hasn't stopped Alta Vista Homes from stepping up to the plate, putting profit asid ...

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Excerpt: There’s no question about it … the red hot real estate market in Utah is slowing down. Painful as it may be, this correction will, over time, make for a healthier market that’s less dependent upon speculators, sub-prime mortgages and double digit appreciation. With all that being saidâ ...

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Excerpt: In this day and age many home building companies are run by MBA's who have never swung a hammer. That's not to say those companies don't build great homes. Most of them do. It's just becoming harder to find a home builder...who's actually a bonafide, card carrying home builder! That's what ma ...

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Excerpt: If Fleur De Lis was the first home you toured in the 2007 Salt Lake Parade of Homes... then blame RDM Construction for setting the bar so high for everyone else! I found myself comparing all others, past and present, against the Fleur De Lis, which probably wasn't fair. Then again all multi-milli ...

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Excerpt: The "sleepers." They're the ones I love in any Parade ... all of those builders you haven't heard of, and whose work you've never seen. They're "sleepers!" Little known, under the radar ... they come out of nowhere and often go on to become "players." Always on the look out for rising stars ...

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Excerpt: Imported lime stone from Jerusalem! I'd never seen this kind of stone in any of the homes I've gone through during The Parade... or at any other time. So I asked Tom Haselton, the builder of The Chambord and the master-mind behind HT Homes, what kind of material he used and where he got it. L ...

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Excerpt: O-k, I want to go on record right from the start. I haven’t seen a home I haven’t liked in the Salt Lake Home Builders 2007 Parade of Homes. Any of us would be privileged to live in any one of the 33 Parade entries. That being said, I have never been in a home that’s more fun, more whimsica ...

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Excerpt: One of the things I like the best about the Salt Lake Home Builders Parade of Homes…is that I finally get to tour the models of builders I’ve been meaning to see. For a long time! Like Caliber Homes! I’m well aware of the fact Caliber has been building beautiful homes for a long time. Bu ...

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Excerpt: Salt Lake Parade Home number 26. I keep hearing the same refrain during this years Salt Lake Home Builders Parade of Homes. Over and over. Home #26...Home #26. There's a good reason Parade goers keep muttering this mantra...a reason that's apparent from the moment you set foot on Steve Lucza ...

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Excerpt: Time to get out your slip-on shoes, grab a good map, a good compass, and a good navigator...and head out for the Salt Lake Homebuilders 2007 Parade of Homes! I've only seen one of the homes at this point, but I here's a sneak preview. The Isabelle, by Bangerter Homes at Daybreak, has got to be o ...