Vernon Foothills

Looks like things at Turtle Mountain are taking shape. Four local builders have begun building showhomes up there at the moment and there are 56 lots currently available as part of Phase 1. The builders are: Okanagan Trend West, Dycor Homes, Inspiration Homes and Constructive Concepts

Here’s an interesting article from the Vancouver Sun on environmentally friendly homes. Some of the builders mentioned in the article are building homes here in the Foothills.

I’ve just noticed that the Tri Lake Ridge area in the Foothills has 31 new lots for sale with a price range of $165K - $325K. The area is called Tri Lake Ridge because of the three-lake view: Kalamalka Lake, Okanagan Lake and Swan Lake.  You can obtain more info from the realtors  Patti and Norm Brenner.

According to a story that recently appeared in The Globe and Mail house prices are finally beginning to settle down a little bit. I personally think thats a good thing as the growth we’ve seen in the last few years is certainly not sustainable. The article states that house prices in Vernon have actually not changed at all in the last 6 months.

Over the last five years the rest of the world has been realizing how glorious Vernon truly is and the effect has been a huge increase in house prices. According to Century 21 Canada, Vernon, BC posted the largest percentage increase  in house prices (129%) in Canada over the last 5 years beating out Vancouver, Calgary, and Fort McMurray.

There was a large open house today in the Foothills put on by realtors Patti and Norm Brenner featuring several of Patti and Norm’s listings. The open house was advertised on the radio and so a lot of people showed up in the area and when other home sellers noticed this, they quickly opened their homes as well. I have to give credit to Patti and Norm for such a great idea because having a multi-home open house makes it worthwhile for people to come.

I was browsing the home listings on okhomeseller.com and came across an interesting house thats going to be built on Red Mountain Place. Two things make this house very interesting to me: 1) The house will be built using insulated concrete forms which gives you a very solid and well insulated home. 2) The house will be heated and cooled using a geothermal system. If these things sound interesting to you, here are a few links to learn more about the house and the technologies that will be used to build it:

• House to be built on Red Mountain Place - listing on okhomeseller.com
• eco Block - the insulated concrete forms system that will be used on the house
• Geothermal Heat Pump - info on geothermal heat pumps from BC Hydro
• Vancouver Sun - article that discusses environmentally friendly homes.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with the builder of the house mentioned here and I don’t have any idea as to the quality of work the builder performs.