The New New Home, The: Getting the house of your dreams with your eyes wide open

Buying or building a new home? Make sure it’s the place you’ve always dreamed of. Good news: the housing market is shifting again. And even better news: if you’re a buyer, you have leverage like never before. With a housing recovery on the horizon, buyers – not sellers – will drive the new-home market for years to come. Buyers will have more exciting, albeit sometimes confusing options to choose from. The New, New Home explains how to take advantage of market conditions and stay one step ahead of the trends to get the home you’ve always wanted. Expert advice, at your fingertips. Author Boyce Thompson, the editorial director of Builder magazine for 17 years, demystifies the challenges and opportunities facing new homebuyers. He lays out the new reality: going green, high-tech, aging in place, space planning, and construction options available in today’s market. Drawing from nearly two decades of experience, he helps you to determine which home features will improve your living experience today...and create value should you sell your home down the road. Today's new-home buyers face unprecedented opportunity and risk. Thanks to recent builder innovations and lower house payments, buyers have the opportunity of a lifetime to build the house of their dreams. Yet given recent history of unprecedented depreciation in home values, consumers venturing into the new-home market take a big chance. In The New, New Home, Boyce Thompson, the editorial director of Builder magazine for 17 years, demystifies the challenges and opportunities facing new homebuyers. In it, he lays out the new green, high-tech, aging in place, space planning, and construction options available in today's market. He helps buyers determine which features will improve their living experience today and create value if they sell their home down the road. The New, New Home is the one book that anyone contemplating buying or building a new home needs to read. It arms new-home buyers with the actionable information that they need to make intelligent choices 7 Baby Hats So Fun And Cute You Can't Help But Smile! The Ever-popular Debby Ware Has Designed A Collection Of Colourful, Charming Infant Head-ware That Will Set Your Baby Apart At Any Occasion, With Sizing For Newborns- 2-year-olds. Directions For Basic Stitches And Techniques Are Included, So Even Beginning Knitters Can Easily Whip Up A Present For A Special Baby. Demystifies the challenges and opportunities facing new homebuyers. In this title, the author lays out the new green, high-tech, aging in place, space planning and construction options available in today's market. It helps buyers determine which features will improve their living experience and create value if they sell their home down the road. FrontCover 1 FOB 2 CH01 11 CH02 25 CH03 41 CH04 54 CH05 75 CH06 109 CH07 121 CH08 137 CH09 150 CH10 160 CH11 169 CH12 185 CH13 192 CH14 207 CH15 218 CH16 230 CH17 241 BOB 255 BackCover 258