Jay Knorr gives video tours of our Alabama new construction homes on SocialCam!

We are proud of the wide variety of virtual full video tours of our Alabama new construction homes on YouTube, and we are happy to share that we have a number of additional guerrilla-style virtual tours now available. Agent Jay Knorr of Stone Creek has been shooting a growing library of short hand-held tours of homes in Stone Creek and Piney Woods, with more communities coming soon on SocialCam.

The videos are taken by iPhone. So while they are a little shaky, they are a great chance to see our homes unfiltered and on the go. If you see things you like or have questions about, it is easy to call the community agent and ask questions or schedule an appointment so that you can see the whole home for yourself! The videos are narrated by Jay, and he is one of the best in the business when it comes to explaining the qualities of Geordan homes.

If you are looking for videos shot from a more traditional style, check the Geordan Communities YouTube page where there are videos of many of our model units which were conducted by Glidetour. These tours are gorgeous, but limited to the models they were shot in and do not provide the most recent information like the SocialCam tours.

We look forward to seeing more of the SocialCam tours soon, and we will announce new ones on Facebook and Twitter. Be sure to Like and Follow us to know when new tours are available!

Spend a great Saturday exploring our Waterscapes community and then a night of great food at the Alabama All Star Food Fesitval!

Continuing the great events around our Alabama new homes communities, the first annual Alabama All Star Food Festival is this Saturday in downtown Montgomery and is only a short drive from our new Waterscapes community. This is a great chance to explore the Waterscapes sales center and units under construction before heading over to enjoy some great southern food and music. The Festival takes place from 3 to 7 p.m. this Saturday, May 12. Tickets are available online and at the door.

The Alabama All Star Food Festival is a chance to join chefs, farmers, breweries and musicians from across the state in celebrating the best in local cuisine. While there, you can enjoy tastings from featured restaurants using locally-sourced ingredients, meet your favorite Alabama chefs, listen to the state’s best homegrown musicians, catch a variety of on-stage demos and take part in hands-on gardening and nutrition workshops. The festival promises to be Alabama food, drink and music at its finest, so don’t miss this first event and get in on the ground floor!

Now is also the perfect time to visit the Waterscapes community in Pike Road to see how both the community and the homes within it are developing. You can get in on the ground floor here, too, by purchasing an under construction home and customizing along the way. Or, you can take control of the process at the start by pre-buying the lot and having Geordan make your dream home come to life.

You can contact agents Jamie Steyer-Horn at 334-538-7328 or Tiesha Andrews at 334-717-1275 for more information about Waterscapes. You can also stop by starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday to explore the community before you head to the festival.

Auburn University has recently been recognized as a great college community for adults and we have the best new construction homes there.

Auburn was recently featured on MSN.com in its list of the Best college-town neighborhoods for adults, which is no surprise to residents of our convenient Auburn new construction homes. This list is composed of ten communities with the best of college life, measuring eclectic culture, brainiac banter and sports cheers with the amenities that make communities appealing for adults. Of primary importance for this list were low crime rates, where Auburn is far below the national average. Additionally, the list only chose places that didn’t suffer from congestion or overcrowding, and have populations under 100,000.

While the article featured the Mills Creek area, that is a little far out if you really want to enjoy the best in Auburn living. Our communities all offer an equivalent quality of living without nearly so much of a commute. Closest in is Stone Creek, which offers homes ranging from comfortable cottages to two-story homes with full basements, all in a community with large lots and serene creek. The Cotswolds is an elegant community on the Auburn periphery with award-winning home designs. The Preserve is a wonderful community with a fully featured move-in ready home available. Our newest community, Tivoli, has both ranch and two-story homes of rustic Italian charm with all the modern conveniences.

We are proud of our wide variety of opportunities to enjoy all the fun of Auburn at competitive prices. If you are looking for communities close to the excitement of Auburn University life, you can’t do better than Geordan Communities! For more information about our Auburn, Opelika, Pike Road, Rehobeth and Dothan new homes, explore our communities.

AprilFest, a celebration of local craft beer and excellent food, is this Friday!

Residents and house hunters of our Auburn new construction homes have another fun event in their area to enjoy, a festival of spring flavors. The second annual AprilFest is set for this Friday, April 27 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Terrace Room at the Hotel at Auburn University. A play on OcotoberFest, AprilFest is a wonderful chance to enjoy craft beers, delicious food and live entertainment with a flair and taste profile for spring rather than autumn.

Craft beer enthusiasts can gather in the Terrace Room and around the pool to sample 24 craft beers paired with delicious dishes created by Chef de Cuisine of Ariccia, Leonardo Maurelli III. Musical entertainment will be provided by Patrick Bruce. Attendees can also watch live cooking demonstrations and meet the hotel’s culinary team to learn a few new techniques and dishes to pair with their own beer preferences.

The 24 different craft beer selections are brought by a number of breweries from Alabama and Georgia. Attendees can sample craft beers from Back Forty Beer Company, Straight to Ale, Avondale, Good People Brewing Company, Blue Pants Brewery, Yellowhammer, SweetWater, Innis and Gunn, Wild Heaven, Heavy Seas and Bells and more at the event. Each beer will be paired with a creative small plate, such as: Caja China Roasted Whole Pig, Brisket Sliders on Milk Bread, Apalachicola Raw Oysters, Tuna Crudo, Ceviche, Pork Belly Cornbread, and homemade mustards and sausages.

Tickets are $45 per person and can be purchased at the Hotel at Auburn University from now until the event. For more great information about our communities and events to be enjoyed by owners of our Auburn, Dothan, Opelika, Rehobeth and Pike Road new construction homes, explore our website.

We include blinds in most of our homes for privacy and energy efficiency - these are in the

We talk a lot about the touches that make our Alabama New Construction Homes stand out, like options for fully upgraded models, upgrades coming standard and great incentives like our current $5,000 allowance. It is easy to talk about the big things like that, but we also put other touches into making our homes the best on the market that aren’t immediately obvious but are greatly enjoyed by our buyers.

One way that we make our homes more complete than any other builder in Alabama is that we add blinds to most windows throughout our homes. We do this to provide an added service to our buyers as well as to protect homes, where direct sunlight can fade colors from our carefully designed interiors. After purchase, the blinds offer privacy for when you first move in, help regulate interior temperature by controlling the amount of light allowed in and can offer health benefits like reducing eye strain and headaches. We choose blinds that are neutral and can work with the interiors designed by our top notch decorators or with the color scheme you choose if you are interested in a home under construction or a pre-sale.

For more information about how Geordan Communities homes offer additional services that other homebuilders can’t match, head on over to the About Us section or visit any of our communities to see the unmatched quality of Geordan homes!

Don't Miss the On the Tracks Festival in Historic Opelika on April 20

There’s another great event coming up for both residents of and prospective buyers of our Opelika New Construction Homes. It is the 13^th biannual On the Tracks Food and Wine event, and it promises to be a fun evening for all on April 20 from 6 to 11 p.m.

This festival will turn Historic Opelika into a grand bazaar, with food vendors lining the street, musicians performing in the middle of Railroad Avenue and a wine tasting trail leading participants through local shops and art galleries. The event draws hundreds twice a year and is a great chance to explore all that downtown historic Opelika has to offer. Food and beverages are priced by vendor, and the wine walk/tour of shops and galleries is only $25. Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door. The list of participating restaurants, shops and bands is growing and they are taking recommendations. So, if you have a band or restaurant in the Auburn-Opelika area, contact organizer Pam Powers-Smith.

This is just one of many fun events for owners of our Auburn and Opelika new homes, and we have many opportunities to join our local communities of Wyndham Gates, Stone Creek, Tivoli, the Preserve and the Cotswolds. Even better, by purchasing one of the many different options we have, from cottage-style retreats to huge two-story homes, you will receive a $5,000 bonus allowance which can be used to make your home your own.

For more information about On the Tracks, explore the festival’s website at OnTheTracks.org. For more information about the best Auburn, Opelika, Dothan or Rehobeth new homes, explore our website.

At Geordan Communities, we put positive environmental improvements into everything we build

As more environmental issues arise worldwide, Geordan Communities is proud of our construction methods which make our environmentally friendly homes. Each of our homes go the distance when it comes to working with the environment, from our mixed-material construction to energy-efficient designs and appliances.

Our mixed material construction uses the best materials for multiple purposes. We keep the idea of the environmental impact of our homes in mind when we make our construction materials. Then, it comes to a careful balance between how to accomplish the signature craftsman-style look of Geordan Communities while keeping the price points low to remain competitive with homes in our markets of Auburn, Opelika, Dothan, Rehobeth and soon in Pike Road. Finally, we rigorously test each design to make sure that the union between plan and cost will always make a structure that will provide staunch protection from the elements.

Our energy-efficient designs put a premium on how we place utilities and other conveniences so that  little as possible is wasted. We seek to avoid wasted energy from the water heater to the air conditioner and more, so that are homes are both energy efficient and our homeowners face lower bills. On top of that, we stock homes with appliances which are either smart or low energy, to both help the environment with less waste and help the buyer have more money in pocket every month.

If these sound like the kind of homes you want to move to, we invite you to explore our Alabama new construction homes.

We are planning amenities for Waterscapes and want to know how important a playground is for our Pike Road community!

We are working hard to make our new Pike Road community, Waterscapes, be the best it can. This means combining the award-winning home plans with the local amenities which will make the community a must buy. While we will soon have more information about the many home plans we will be offering at Waterscapes, ranging from 2,500 to 3,754 square feet, we are excited to share the plans for local fun.

At the moment, we are planning to include a pavilion, three fishing ponds and a youth size soccer field. We are contemplating adding a playground, so if you are looking for a new home in the Pike Road area and a playground is an important buying amenity, let us know below in the comments or on the Geordan Communities Facebook page! We are working on putting together the community layout which will be available at the mobile sales center in the next couple of weeks, so there is plenty of time to make changes to include a playground if that is what the community wants.

We are excited to announce that our mobile sales center will have form boards with design this week, and we are starting construction on three homes right away. We know demand is high in Pike Road, and we want to make Waterscapes the perfect community for Alabama new construction buyers.

For more information about Waterscapes, contact agent Jamie Steyer-Horn at 334-538-7328 or Tiesha Andrews at 334-717-1275.

We're ready to give you a $5,000 allowance to making a new Geordan Communities home your own!

We are excited to announce that during the month of April 2012, we have another amazing buyer incentive to offer those looking for Alabama new construction homes. We have listened to our buyers, and we are happy to support those that are looking to purchase an on-market Geordan home with a $5,000 allowance.

This allowance can be used toward closing costs, yard fencing, additional kitchen appliances and much more. A lot of buyers will be looking forward to using this for yard fencing, while we know others will want to expand their kitchen options with additional appliances and more will want to use the money toward closing costs so that they can walk away from the transaction with more money. This flexibility is just another way we are working to make Geordan Communities homes the stand-out best homes on the market in Auburn, Opelika, Dothan and Rehobeth.

There’s lots of opportunity to enjoy this allowance, as we still have over 30 homes available on market between move in ready or currently under construction condition. You will qualify for this special allowance only by putting in a contract with any of these homes by April 30. This special allowance does not apply to those who are looking to pre-buy a home site and have the construction made to order, as they already enjoy a greater adaptability when it comes to their homes.

For more information, call one of our qualified Alabama Realtors or explore our website to learn more about the homes we currently have available on market.

WE're proud that so many of our gorgeous new construction homes have sold in the first quarter of 2012!

We are proud to announce that we’ve had an amazing quarter for our Alabama new construction homes! When we revealed that we had 30 homes on market for the spring buyer season, we were sure that we would have many opportunities for buyers. We didn’t expect to have 24 contracts so quickly. We are now working on breaking new ground across all of our communities to accommodate the ready, willing and able homebuyers who are coming to us in droves.

The big winner when it comes to new homes put under contract is our Tivoli community, with six contracts. Though, Southern Hills is just behind with five. Halls Creek and Stone Creek had three each. Wyndham Gates and Cypress Glade both had two homes. The Cotswolds, Piney Woods and The Preserve all had one go under contract. We are happy to be providing these new homeowners excellent living spaces and the continued support of the Geordan Lifestyles program for added convenience.

We have our incredibly talented agents, support team and skilled builders to thank for these great numbers. We will continue to make quality neighborhoods featuring spacious homes and unparalleled craftsmanship at affordable prices. We can’t wait to see what the next quarter brings. We are preparing our new Pike Road community, Waterscapes, to be open to the public. It’s looking to be a great 2012 for Alabama new homes!