Future Homeowners Come Together: Pardee Homes Celebrates Stellar New Home Sales at Canyon Hills in Lake Elsinore with Special Meet Your Neighbor Event

    SAN DIEGO, CA, May 14, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- (May 14, 2010) The next generation of Pardee Homes brings more than style and excitement to the home buying market; it offers home buyers, many of them first-time buyers, choice, value and eco-friendly living. With 46 year-to-date sales at Silverthorne and LivingSmart Homes at Canyon Hills, Pardee Homes celebrated by inviting the year's first new homeowners to a special 'meet your neighbor' event in April.

"Excitement was in the air as home buyers filled the Plan 6 LivingSmart model home and eagerly searched name tags to find their future neighbors at the party in April," said Matt Sauls, regional marketing director for Pardee Homes. "It was extremely satisfying to bring our buyers together like family and see them so excited about their new homes. These are two great neighborhoods, with the year's first move-ins expected to take place this summer, just in time for everyone to enjoy all the outstanding recreational amenities at Canyon Hills."

Brimming with a wealth of energy-saving, water-conserving, heath-promoting and earth-friendly features, the LivingSmart Homes have been designed to save the buyer money and offer versatile, sustainable new home choices in the Inland Empire.

LivingSmart Homes includes a total of eight floor plans, with four model homes available for viewing at the Canyon Hills location (four models are also available for touring in Beaumont at Tournament Hills). "We've taken a different approach to homebuilding by offering an exciting array of choices in floor plan design, including both one- and two-story homes," said Sauls. "In addition to versatility, LivingSmart Homes are designed with four components that promote sustainable living. That all adds up to a home that contributes to your family's well-being, and your pocketbook."

Priced from the high $100,000s, the LivingSmart Homes include eight versatile one- and two-story floor plans (seven at the Canyon Hills location) with up to seven bedrooms, two to four baths, two and three-bay garages and approximately 1,132 to 3,099 square feet. Ingenious touches such as gourmet kitchens with slab granite and stainless steel appliances are complemented by a host of room options such as media niches, extra bedrooms, fireplaces, garage workshops, master bedroom decks and a four-bay garage in select plans.

All LivingSmart homes by Pardee include a number of standard energy-efficient features such as Energy Star rated dishwashers, convenient recycling centers in the kitchen, low-E spectrally selective glass windows, fluorescent lights in select recessed cans, dimmer switches and occupancy sensors, radiant barrier roof sheathing, low VOC paint and water-efficient plumbing fixtures. Buyers can also add such earth-friendly options as roof-integrated solar electric power systems, high- efficiency air filtration systems, tankless water heaters, WaterSmart controllers for landscape, reverse osmosis water system in the kitchen, central vacuum systems, and more. Energy efficiency in a LivingSmart home exceeds California's Title 24 criteria, already the toughest in the nation.

Priced from the low $200,000s, Silverthorne features both one- and two-story floor plans that span approximately 1,655 to 2,652 square feet. The homes boast attractive Italian, Spanish and Cottage-style architecture and have three to six bedrooms, two to four baths and two- and three-bay garages. Inviting spaces such as lofts and dens provide plenty of room for shared family occasions, and optional bonus rooms and additional bedrooms in select plans allow for lifestyle choices.

Silverthorne offers a unique grouping of option packages to help reduce cost and maximize incentive dollars, plus, by purchasing a new home, buyers will have the opportunity to select from a variety of flexible room options and amenity packages to suit their lifestyle.

Silverthorne and LivingSmart Homes residents enjoy a unique, natural setting where over 900 acres are dedicated to open space and a community Intranet with Verizon's FiOS fiber optic network connection that reaches every new home. The nearly 2,000-acre Canyon Hills master-planned community features themed villages with their own unique identifiable elements and land forms, schools, neighborhood parks and community recreation centers, many of which are already in place, including Creekside Park and Creekside Recreation Center featuring a junior Olympic-size pool, clubhouse, picnic areas, playground and basketball court. A second brand-new private community recreation center with a beautiful swimming pool and spa is located in Foothill Village, adjacent to Silverthorne. Nearby shopping at Canyon Hills Marketplace offers convenience shopping, dining and additional services, including a new Stater Bros. Supermarket, Starbucks, Bank of America and CVS/Pharmacy.

For more information visit www.pardeehomes.com or call (951) 244-9583 (LivingSmart Homes) (951) 244-0287 (Silverthorne).To visit the models at Canyon Hills in Lake Elsinore, exit I-15 at Railroad Canyon Road and go east 2.5 miles. Turn right on Canyon Hills Road and follow the signs.

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