Front Porch Comeback
Front porches are making a comeback is one of the new home design trends for 2011.
Housing & Economic Forecasts Show Rising Activity
Expect 5.3 million existing-home sales this year, up from 4.9 million in 2010, with additional gains in 2012 to about 5.6 million – that’s a sustainable level given the size of our population. According to GoToby.com, home sales are expected to stay on an uptrend through 2012 and mortgage interest …
Making A Home Safer For Kids
Here are some things that can be done around your home to provide a safe environment for children by Matt Fox, Making A Home Safer For Kids: Smoke detectors are the most important home-safety item. You can double your chance of survival and you only need to change the batteries …
ICI Homes sweeps NE Florida Parade of Homes
ICI Homes, which ranks as one of the nation’s largest luxury community developers and builders, recently swept the 2011 Northeast Florida Home Builders Association (NEFBA) Parade of Homes and earned the company four first place Gold awards and one second place Silver award. Don Wilford, North Florida division president at …
The Westminster by ICI Homes Wins Realtor’s Award
The recent Volusia Building Industry Association’s 2011 Parade of Homes awarded The Westminster by ICI Homes, in the Plantation Bay subdivision of Ormond Beach, “Realtor’s Choice for Best Value”. The Westminster is one of ICI’s more popular floor plans with 2,478 sq. ft., 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. The one-story …
Cleaning Up After a Party
Entertaining is a fun and wonderful way to spend quality time with your friends and family. One way to know you’ve had a successful get-together if there is a big clean up afterward. It’s important to have a cleanup strategy and the proper tools that will help you quickly and …
ICI Homes’ Plantation Bay plans summer tennis & golf camp for kids
Campers can register for full day or half-day sessions, and one day sessions are also available on a space-available basis, according to Rosemary Messina, vice president of sales and marketing for ICI Homes, the developer of Plantation Bay Camp Director Dave Brown, a USPTA master tennis professional and Director of …
Improve Your Volley With Better Aim
First of all, most errors are made because the wrist does not stay firm enough during contact. To cure misdirection one must turn the palm of the hitting hand in the direction one wants the ball to go. Once contact is made, freeze! By freezing at contact the racquet will …
Westlake Preserve, Plantation Bay’s Newest Neighborhood, Tops Seven Sales in March
ICI Homes announced that its newest neighborhood, Westlake Preserve, generated seven new home sales for the month of March, and eleven sales for the community as a whole, showing the best sales volume in several quarters. When asked what prompted the surge in sales, Rosemary Messina, vice president of sales …