Shea Homes of Walnut, CA boosts customer satisfaction to higher levels in 2009 by helping them monitor and improve the new home buyer experience from contract to warranty with help from Constellation HomeBuilder Systems, the largest provider of software for home builders.
Constellation BuildSERV’s Home Ownership Guide, the 2009 Innovative Housing Technology Award Winner, is used [...]

Looking for a new home in one of the country’s most romantic cities?  You can’t go wrong with the San Francisco Bay Area and its cable cars, Fisherman’s Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge (to name only a few amazing sights!). As a major Pacific Rim port and business hub, it is also the financial [...]

In the past week, two builders have ramped up technology plans, in an effort to improve customer service. With the coming year quickly approaching, these builders are preparing for the future with new technology initiatives.
Move over Twitter, iPhone Apps are now one of the newest customer service tools for homebuilders. Leading the way, Shea Homes, [...]

Who is Eligible

First-time home buyers, who are defined by the law as buyers who have not owned a principal residence during the three-year period prior to the purchase, may be eligible for a tax credit of 10% of the home purchase price, up to a maximum of $8,000.
Existing home owners who have been residing in [...]

Here’s what Shea Homes ceo Bert Selva makes of the hard-won extension and expansion of a tax credit for home buyers through April 2010:
“We need to start more homes. We’re going to have to build some spec homes.”
Selva worries about the company’s need to loosen an extremely tight rein on home construction. He has personally [...]

Senate negotiators spent yesterday trying to forge an agreement that would extend the $8,000 tax credit for qualified first-time new home buyers past its Nov. 30 deadline.
A decision had been expected by last night, but procedural issues caused a delay, housing-industry sources said.
The Senate compromise would cut the tax credit to 10 percent of the [...]

Green Homes are much more than a trend or fad to attach the word “green” in front of everything.  In home building, there are actually so many opportunities for new homes builders to make changes to their building process to improve on the overall impact to the environment.  Shea Homes announced Superiology more than 6 [...]

I have been assured by multiple sources with increasing frequency over the past few years that modern society is teetering on the brink of collapse. I’m sure that most of you have heard some sort of variation on this theme whether it is the Rapture; the end of the world that the Mayans predicted the [...]

Wow, can we be hit with any more doom and gloom financial news? Over and over, we are bombarded by the media as to how bad things are in the economy, which leaves you thinking that now is actually a poor time to buy a new home. Gas had been hitting record highs week after [...]

Buying a home can be a long and trying process, but thankfully the Internet has made things easier than what they were in the past.
Traditional methods of searching for a new home for sale required a person to collect numerous papers from the area and with pen in hand, locate properties of interest. Once a [...]

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