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Custom Homes Still Rage In Atlanta
Custom homes in Atlanta have surged throughout the 21st century and continue to outshine track homes despite the 2008 housing recession. Atlanta is setting new trends and helping to lead the country in architectural styles and has done so with a modern blend of many classic architectural types.
Now that the housing recession of 2008 is in full swing, it’s interesting to see the impact this has on builders. Many builders with thin margins are starting to drop out of business, slash prices, and make desperate moves to get a sale. This has resulted in upgrades, incentives, and more, but ultimately an overall improvement in the architectural detail of these homes. Track homes have taken a huge hit and custom homes with incentives have continued to move better than expected. Architectural details such as window boxes, architectural brackets, shutters, and hardware have been a few of the upgrades that builders are using to spruce up the curb appeal on their homes. This has resulted in a nice architectural fusion that has created a new breed of architecture in the Atlanta area.
2006 was a year of tremendous housing growth and development in Forsyth county and helped that county to be one of the fastest growing in the nation. Builders were flocking in and trying to get in on the action. Several custom home builders emerged to separate themselves from mainstream track home builders. Atlant has transformed in architecture and style a lot and now you can find a combination of a variety of architectural styles on the homes in that area. Custom homes have done quite well compared to track homes in the housing recession due mainly to the fact that the buyers market has allowed buyers to get more for less than before. Many of the track home builders are having to upgrade their exteriors with window boxes and other accents to attract the buyers in. Many of them are now offering upgrades to the homes to try to be competitive.
Classic country-style homes, cedar shingles, and a mix of mission-style architecture are some of the highlights. The fusion architecture in Atlanta has resulted in houses with as many as four layers on the home ranging from rock to brick to siding to shingles. This unique architectural blend of variety has made Atlanta a hotspot for emerging architectural trends. Now, you can rarely find a boring custom home in Atlanta that offers simple repeated features all over the front. Because most custom homes in Atlanta are built on hills they are 2-story and this has given architects the freedom to expand into unique elevations that are not typical outside of the state. The new combination of custom homes and architectural styles has helped with the growth in the north Atlanta area and has helped combat the housing recession. “I believe that Atlanta is setting a trend in architecture for rest of America to follow. Atlanta is setting a new standard of architecture by being on the cutting edge and is a great place to raise a family and to find custom homes,” says Matthew Buquoi, a window box manufacturer in the Atlanta, Georgia area. “Custom homes in the north Atlanta area have revived architecture by brining in new elements and styles to make a new fusion of different architectural genres.“.”