Now is your opportunity to get a new home in Cherokee at an amazing value. Sharp Residential builds affordable homes, great for first-time home buyers, in the Woodstock lake community Lakestone. Currently, lot #19 is available featuring their award-winning floorplan the Briarcliff II. Even better, this elegant new home in Woodstock has just been reduced in price, for a limited time only, to $359,900* (the photo is of the Briarcliff II floorplan but is not the actual home that is currently available).

The Briarcliff II plan features five bedrooms with four full baths. It’s an open floorplan with a two-story great room accented with a bowed wall of windows and stacked stone fireplace from floor to ceiling. The gourmet kitchen that is just off of the great room has plenty of counter and cabinet space with an island, stainless steel appliances, breakfast bar and more. Read the rest of this entry »

While many home builders have struggled to sell inventory at their communities, Sharp Residential continues to produce new phases at its Forsyth County new home community, Brandon Hall. Phase V will offer 46 new homesites, many of which feature beautiful wooded views. Homes at Brandon Hall are priced from the low to mid $300’s.

There is no question that you’ll be able to find exactly what you are looking for in a new home at Brandon Hall. When choosing a home at Brandon Hall, homeowners have an option of four or five bedrooms, one or two-story family rooms, offices, bonus rooms and study options, breakfast rooms, two-car front-entry garages with carriage doors, and front porches with brick or stone floors. Most of the homes in the community are two-stories, however there are ranch floorplans available. Read the rest of this entry »

Liberty Park is offering fantastic financing to help you afford your new home now. Basically, by taking advantage of the Buy Down Mortgage feature from SunTrust Mortgage, Inc., you receive a temporary reduction on your locked-in interest rate (can be as low as 3.75%). How the program works is that you get a 1% reduction on your rate for the first year.

Your monthly payments will be recognizably less for the first 12 months – giving you the flexibility to use money on furniture, setting up utilities, paint, moving expenses, etc. Taking into account the amazing price of these Atlanta townhomes, the low interest rates available and the buy down program, it could very well be cheaper to buy a home than rent an apartment. Read the rest of this entry »

The eagerly anticipated redevelopment of the existing Moore’s Mill Shopping Center and surrounding area into a medium density mixed-use development remains scheduled and is slated for construction to begin in late 2010. According to sources the project will involve the redevelopment of over 11 acres of property by the developer, Edens and Avant, into a 45,600 square foot Publix grocery store, as well as, 55,456 square feet of convenience retail, restaurants and 345 residential sites. A section of the redevelopment a brand new 11,800 square foot free standing CVS pharmacy has already been completed and opened earlier this year.

The new Moore’s Mill development will also include the construction of over 1,300 linear feet of new roads. These new roads, which are to be constructed by the developer and the City, will form a grid street pattern. These improvements, along with the soon to be completed four lane bridge over the Chattahoochee, should provide substantial traffic relief during high travel time periods.

Liberty Park and surrounding area residents will be able to take advantage of the convenient location for shopping, groceries, dining and as a meeting place. The new development will be very pedestrian-friendly and will provide outside gathering places consisting of two plazas located at the center of the project. Construction is scheduled to take approximately a brief 18 months for completion.

The city of Woodstock, Georgia, where Sharp Residential’s beautiful Lakestone subdivision is located, hosted a warm holiday spirit in frosty airs Saturday when Woodstock presented the annual holiday “Parade of Lights”.   The colorful parade day events began at the old WalMart/Furniture Express on Hwy 92 moved north on Main Street through the Olde Town merchant district to Woodstock Elementary School.  Added to this years events, the Towne Lake Players drummed up a well received rendition of the “Little Drummer Boy”, even offering a special, free opening performance in the mid afternoon at the Woodstock Community Church.  The Sequoyah High School Women’s Choral Group sang and danced at the Grand Stand in front of RightWing Tavern in the late afternoon.  Festivities included lots of excellent food from local vendors.  All of this local talent led one along the parade path to the downtown Woodstock City Park where there was a fabulous turnout for sit downs with Santa with the Woodstock Middle School Choral performing nearby.  The Woodstock Middle School Chorus has been invited to sing at Carnegie Hall and took donations to help offset the expense! Then, there was the hush of anticipation followed by cheers of delight with the lighting of Woodstock’s Christmas tree for 2009.

Woodstock’s Mayor Donnie Henriques awarded the best holiday

parade float and the 2009 winner of Preservation Woodstock’s Barbara G

Ingram Citizen on the Year Award Winner,  Elaine Hubbard, acted as

Grand Marshall of the parade. Mrs. Hubbard was presented the award in

recognition of her contributions to the historic preservation in Woodstock.

A particularly important focus of the day’s events is the collection of canned goods for local food pantries.  Toys were donated for the Woodstock Jaycee’s Christmas Assistance Program to benefit the less fortunate families of Cherokee County.

Sharp Residential has a great end-of-the year incentive currently going on at Liberty Park, their only community that is inside the Perimeter. When it came to building within the city limits, they looked for the perfect location that was convenient to everything downtown Atlanta has to offer but still make the homes affordable. Basically, they wanted to build a community that new college graduates, young professionals and first-time home buyers would love and be proud to call home. Considering Liberty Park is the #1 selling townhome community in Fulton County, it’s safe to say that they did pretty good in reaching the original goal.

And now Sharp is making it even more affordable to move into a new Atlanta townhome at Liberty Park by covering all of your closing costs, as long as you close by the end of the year. Buying a new home should be a fun and exciting process, and having to come up with the extra money (which can sometimes be as high as $5,000 or even higher!) for closing costs can take away from your enjoyment. Read the rest of this entry »

This year according to Mayflower Moving, 43 million Americans will pack up their belongings and move into a new home. I’ve put together a list of the “Top Ten Items Most Homeowners Forget to Do Before/During Moving”:

#1 – Put your new address in your wallet or cell phone.  I guarantee you will be opening a new account or setting up an appointment and you will forget your new address.  E-mail, text or update your social networking sites with your new information.

#2 – You will probably need a new Physician, Grocery Store, Pharmacy, Dry Cleaners, Accountant, Bank, and Veterinarian.

#3 – New Driver’s License – You must apply for a Georgia driver’s license within 30 days of becoming a Georgia resident.

#4 – Contact your old post office with mail forwarding instructions.  Change magazine subscriptions.

#5 – Bring cleaning supplies – Your new sharp home will be clean, but you may drop or spill something while you are unpacking.

#6 – Garage Door Openers – Put in your cars.

#7 – Utilities – Don’t forget Gas, Electric, Water/Sewer, Phone, Internet Providers, Cable.

#8 – Spare keys – Don’t forget to distribute.

#9 – Register to vote. http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/voter_registration/GA%20VOTER%20REGISTRATION%20%20APP(Fill_2007).pdf

#10 – Change “home” location in GPS devices