| Cold weather, or summer heat, is on the way, | | | | While many new homes in developments are sold |
| and you need a domicile to protect you and yours | | | | out before they are even completed, if you settle |
| from the elements. You've assessed your family's | | | | for a pre-occupied home in the same |
| needs for space, and your financial limitations, you | | | | development, you may get it at a better price |
| know approximately what will be required of you | | | | and with improvements like landscaping. |
| as a home buyer, and now the fun begins. You | | | | The Old-Fashioned Way |
| are about to embark on a search for that special | | | | Most Sunday papers now have supplemental real |
| edifice which will be the place where you set | | | | estate listings on of both new developments and |
| down roots for the foreseeable future. Where do | | | | preoccupied homes. Many developers will |
| you begin? | | | | advertise their newest projects in the Sunday real |
| The obvious answer is, of course, with the local | | | | estate listings, and you can spend an afternoon |
| real estate listings. And you'll find them not only in | | | | with the family visiting the various building sites to |
| the Sunday classifieds; you'll have several options | | | | see if your future home is there in some stage |
| and should organize your approach to make it as | | | | of completion. |
| efficient as you can. | | | | By going from development to development, you'll |
| See A Broker | | | | also get a fairly good idea of how much band |
| The real estate brokers in your area will be helpful | | | | each builder is willing to provide for your home |
| in giving you a handle on the houses available in | | | | buying buck. For more info see on Real Estate |
| the neighborhoods you like, and their approximate | | | | Agency. |
| selling prices. They can also direct you to real | | | | The Internet |
| estate listings of new developments, as well as | | | | Finally, the Internet is rapidly becoming a world |
| homes which are currently unoccupied and crying | | | | unto itself in the real estate listings business. |
| out for a new family to love them. | | | | Hundreds of Realtors now have websites offering |
| You can also get in touch with local real estate | | | | the particulars on all their listings. The Internet real |
| developers of newly completed projects n and | | | | estate listings are ideal for those who will need a |
| ask for their most recent real estate listings. They | | | | new home in a different area of the country, and |
| also have real estate listings for their unfinished | | | | some of them are even sites on which sellers |
| developments, and by speaking with them directly | | | | advertise their homes directly, so that you may |
| you may get a sense of what one of their | | | | be able to get a home for a lower price because |
| homes will bring once it is put on the secondary | | | | the seller does not have to pay for a broker's |
| housing market. | | | | commission. |