Pardee Homes Earns National Honors For High Style, Earth-Friendly New Homes & Quality Marketing

    LOS ANGELES, CA, December 20, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Pardee Homes announces a new round of honors for its achievements, with 8 Silver Awards in The Nationals. Judges commended the LA-based homebuilder for its detached and attached new home communities, green building brand and quality marketing. Presented under the auspices of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), The Nationals competition pays tribute to superior new-home sales and marketing by sales and marketing professionals, homebuilders and associates and sales and marketing councils.

Pardee's best-selling LivingSmart Homes at Canyon Hills in Lake Elsinore, California, took Silver honors as Community of the Year, and a Silver for model home landscaping demonstration of drought tolerant concepts. Since the grand opening in February of this year, these detached homes and their sister community in Beaumont, California, have earned multiple design awards and media notice for affordability, plan variety and flexibility and energy- and water-saving green standards.

Also a winner for Pardee Homes in this year's competition is Highlands Village, with Silver honors for attached home design, model home merchandising, sales center and print advertising campaign. The stylish community is in San Diego, and like the LivingSmart design series, has been noted for attainably priced ownership opportunities, a desirable community setting and robust sales.

"Our mission is to bring superior quality to our market, and that means quality in design, construction, customer service and community--and the green measures that serve our buyers and their neighborhoods long after the sale," said Mike McGee, Pardee Homes President and CEO. "To be honored for these efforts in an arena as competitive as The Nationals is truly gratifying."

Pardee Homes was also noted for marketing its green building programs. Silver Award winners include the company's LivingSmart brand logo, and its Earth Month initiative, which was staged throughout April in all of Pardee's market regions.

"LivingSmart is celebrating its 10th anniversary year, and we are proud of the recognition it has achieved with our buyers as an important additional value of their new home purchase,"" said Joyce Mason, vice president of marketing. "We are also delighted to be recognized for our Earth Month activities, which underscored our green commitments and helped heighten consumer awareness of the value of green in a new home."

The Nationals program is presented by the National Sales and Marketing Council (NSMC), a council of NAHB, in concert with MetLife Home Loans. Preferred sponsors include major building product manufacturers, financial institutions, homebuilders and developers, architects, and associates in real estate. Judges represent a cross section of home building's professional disciplines.

Gold and Silver Award winners of the 2011 Nationals competition will be celebrated as a highlight of the International Builders Show, an annual conference and exposition by NAHB. The ceremonies are scheduled for January 13 at The Peabody Hotel in Orlando, Florida. Also see www.thenationals.com.

Pardee Homes is recognized for its superior master-planning concepts, quality homes, responsive customer service and dedication to the educational and civic goals of the communities in which it builds. The company's many awards honor design and planning, and commitment to greener and more sustainable new home development. Visit www.pardeehomes.com.

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