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Article: HOME DESIGN; NO MORE 'AMEN' TO AMENITIES.(Real Estate)
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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Byline: DENNIS J. CARROLL
By Dennis J. Carroll
For The New Mexican
Santa Fe home builders, trying to make the most of sales opportunities as first-time buyers rush to meet a tax-credit deadline, are rethinking how they design, market and price their products in the midst of a major attitude adjustment among buyers.
"It's never going to be the same market again," said Alan Hoffman, co-founder of Oshara Village and a sales representative for Artistic Homes of Santa Fe, a new builder of homes in the Oshara planned community off Richards Avenue near Santa Fe Community College.
To sustain a recent upturn in
sales driven ...