Australian Spec Home of the Year 2009

Australia Spec Home

The Australian Housing Industry association has awarded the finalists and Winner of the 2009 Spec Home of the Year Award. Now this is the kind of contest that we at spechomes.com can get into, and (featured to the right) the type of spec home that any home builder would be proud to display. Congratulations to Craig Sheiles Homes. [...]

Home Builder Advertising

“Feature your Inventory Homes on SpecHomes.com and drive an overwhelming response from active home buyers on the internet!” A Featured SpecHomes.com listing will appear in some of the most prominent sections of the site as well as appearing highlighted in our inventory home search results. Your featured listing will get premium visibility and increase the audience for your [...]

Home builders appraising the new home appraisal rules

Less than three months after new rules for home appraisers kicked in, the real estate industry is in uproar.  Realtors, new home builders, mortgage brokers and the appraisal industry itself all agree the rules are causing problems. Some are backing a bill in Congress to kill them. The new guidelines bar mortgage brokers from ordering [...]

Balinese Design at 1446 Donhill Drive

The LA Times Hot Property column reports that real estate mogul Mohamed Hadid’s latest Beverly Hills offering has had a price drop from $16.5 million to $12.9 million. The 12,000-square-foot spec home located near Beverly Hills, California at 1446 Donhill Drive has a Balinese design with bamboo, exotic Asian woods and other materials imported from around [...]

Grand Heritage – Bowen Family Homes

GRAND HERITAGE – This resort style community offers a luxurious clubhouse, with a 300,000 gallon swimming center, state of the art fitness center, gaming rooms, computer labs, ballrooms, meeting rooms plus more!Convienent to Highway 30, George Bush Turnpike, Highway 78 and 380. Just minutes north of the brand new Firewheel outdoor mall and shopping center.This [...]

Spec Home Solution

CEO discusses new Spec Homes pricing strategy.  SpecHomes.com entered the Home Builder Internet Advertising scene with a great brand, and a new take on an established product offering. But a few months later, began feeling unsatisifed with the initial response received within the building industry. “It just wasn’t enough, we really wanted to make an impact.” Says [...]

Burning Your Spec Homes

“Ever feel like burning your entire list of inventory homes? Well now you can… we’ll even help! SpecHomes.com now “burns” your spec homes to FeedBurner.com.” “FeedBurner is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for RSS feeds. FeedBurner also offers the largest feed and blog advertising network that brings together an unprecedented [...]

Selling Spec Homes with Social Media

Have you heard the term viral marketing? Chances are you have, but if you haven’t here is a good definition: Viral marketing is a term used to describe a message or information that spreads quickly, effectively, and contagiously through networks of friends, families, and third party relationships. Quickly – the viral message is usually passed on [...]

About the SpecHomes.com Home Building Network

SpecHomes.com is the best resource for Home Builder Sales Marketing, and related Home Building Industry Products and Services – period. Our online Home Building Network provides Home Builders and Residential Construction Industry counterparts an easy to implement, self-service, internet sales marketing and advertising solution. A Home Building Network Membership is perfect for Advertising: Spec Homes, and Spec House Inventory [...]