According to Dennis Grinder, division president of Mattamy Homes in the Jacksonville region, the 2,306-square foot Lancaster model will be unveiled at Saturday’s grand opening event. This home offers four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and a two-car garage. Residents will enjoy the look of the house, which features art niches throughout and a second-story balcony that is ideal for watching sunsets and stargazing. For cooking, there is a gourmet kitchen that has everything needed to make each meal a delight. The home also includes a large loft that can be used as a living space or for storage.

At the grand opening event, refreshments will be served, and guests can register to win an iPad. Those who attend the realtor event can win Visa gift cards.

Mattamy Homes recently acquired 75 homesites at Cedar Bay, where homeowners enjoy no CDD fees and HOA dues as low as $27 per month. The 153-home community is on the Broward River and offers residents wooded preserve, river marsh views and ponds throughout. Located on Cedar Bay Road off North Main St. (Highway 17), Cedar Bay is just five minutes from River City Marketplace and provides residents with easy access to Highway 9-A and Interstate 95.

For more information on Mattamy Homes, contact Kerry Soltis at 904-279-9502 or Dennis Grinder at 904-279-9500.

Mattamy Homes U.S. Group, originally the largest home builder in Canada, will start construction on three, four and even five bedroom homes at Old Sebastian Point soon, according to Dennis Ginder, division president for the Jacksonville region. Homes feature attractive locations, quality amenities in the interiors, and best of all affordability for families, with pricing from the $190,000s.

Not only are these homes built with families like yours in mind, they provide ample living space, ranging in size from 1,700 square feet to 2,900 square feet, on 60-foot home sites. Old Sebastian Point is a picturesque, preserve community, which borders the Red House Branch Creek and the San Sebastian River.

Ginder says inventory homes will be available for sale starting this month, and the model home in Old Sebastian Point will open for viewing in January 2011. For more information, please visit www.mattamyhomes.com.

The first award was given to Mattamy Homes for their Santiago model, in their Durbin Crossing community in St. Johns, Fla. Excellent for families, the home has two stories, four bedrooms, and offers a loft and optional fifth bedroom, and two-and-a-half baths. The Santiago has a total of 2,715 square feet of living space, and a two-car garage, and comes at a price of $393,990 as shown.

The second award was for the Emerald model home, in the Sevilla at World Golf Village community, in St. Augustine, Fla. Located at 109 Casa Sevilla Ave., it is also a two-story home, with a spacious 2,189 square feet of living space. The model home features three bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths, and also a loft, and over-sized two-car garage, priced at $324,805 as shown.

“The Santiago and Emerald model homes have been very popular with new home buyers,” said Dennis Ginder, division president for Mattamy Homes in the Jacksonville region. “We are delighted with the recognition from the professional home building industry.”

These prestigious awards were presented to Mattamy Homes earlier this month, at a banquet at the Marsh Creek Country Club. The St. Johns County 2010 Parade of Homes was sponsored by the St. Johns Builders Council.

Mattamy Homes added divisions in the U.S. in 2003, and is originally based in Canada, the largest and most active builder there with revenues exceeding $1.3 billion. Communities and offices in the U.S. are located in Jacksonville and Orlando, Charlotte, Phoenix and Minneapolis. For more information on buying a Mattamy home, and about the Gold Awards, visit www.mattamyhomes.com, or contact:

Kerry Soltis – Marketing Manager in Jacksonville – (904) 279-9502

Dennis Ginder – Division President in Jacksonville – (904) 279-9500

Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications – (407) 644-4142

Dennis Ginder, division president at Mattamy Homes in the Jacksonville region, said the donation included 10 executive chairs, five filing cabinets, two dry-erase boards, five bulletin boards, five wastepaper baskets and a large box of miscellaneous office supplies.

Mattamy also donated miscellaneous items to the City Rescue Mission including eight filing cabinets and five boxes of office supplies.

Ginder said Mattamy Homes relocated its corporate offices at 7800 Belfort Parkway recently as new home sales associates are seeing more demand at Mattamy Homes sales and information centers at Cornerstone at Watermill, Covenant Cove and North Campus in Jacksonville, Kensington, Kings Trace and Sevilla in St. Augustine, and Durbin Crossing, The Colony at Greenbriar and Worthington Park in St. Johns.

“Visitor traffic and sales in all nine Jacksonville-area communities are beginning to pick up and we no longer need as much space or furnishings in our corporate offices,” Ginder said.

Ginder was nominated by his peers and was one of forty selected out of 170 nominated for the honor. The award was based on his community service and achievements in the industry he serves.

Ginder joined Mattamy Homes in 2008, and his division posted a 38 percent increase in 2009 sales over the previous year.    He is active in St. Johns Habitat for Humanity, Northeast Florida Builders Assn. and the St. Johns County Builders Council.

Mattamy Homes expanded into the U.S. in 2003 and has divisions in Jacksonville, Orlando, Charlotte, Phoenix and Minneapolis.  The homebuilder is the largest and most active in Canada with annual revenues exceeding $1.3 billion.  Visit www.mattamyhomes.com.

Dennis Ginder, president of Mattamy Homes U.S. Group in the Jacksonville region, said Mattamy is building 43 new single-family homes at Durbin Crossing priced from the $180s. Mattamy Homes recently introduced its new Innovations Series of designer homes at Durbin Crossing.

At Cornerstone at Watermill, Mattamy Homes is building 54 new three-bedroom town homes priced from the low $100s.  Ginder said new town homes at Cornerstone at Watermill range in size from 1,400 square feet of living space to 1,700 square feet.

The one-story Taylor model with a bonus room grabbed the Gold with its stunning four-bedroom design offering 3,461 square feet of living space, priced at $469,990 and located in Worthington Park, a gated community in St. Johns County where single-family homes start in the high $200s.

Dennis Ginder, division president for Mattamy Homes in the Jacksonville region, said the Emerald, a three-bedroom with loft model home offering 2,189 square feet and priced with a base price of $188,990 won the Silver Award at the Parade.

The Emerald is located at Sevilla in the World Golf Village off World Commerce Parkway and International Golf Parkway in St. Augustine.
New Single-family homes at Sevilla are priced from the $150s.

Mattamy’s Jacksonville division, which builds new single-family homes in nine communities in the region, posted sales of 31 new homes in March at an average sale price of $237,000.

Steve Parker, president of Mattamy Homes U.S. Group, headquartered in Winter Park, said the past month ranks as the homebuilder’s second best month for new home sales in the U.S. after January of 2009, when the company posted 92 sales.   Parker said the average sale price of a Mattamy-built home in March was $240,000.

Congratulations to this Jacksonville new home builder!

Dennis Ginder, division president for Mattamy Homes in the Jacksonville region, said only nine home sites remain for sale at Kensington in St. Augustine with new single-family executive homes priced from the $230s. Only three home sites and four ready-to-move-in homes priced from the $130s remain for sale at North Campus, located in north Duval County near the I-95/I-295 junction. Only one ready-to-move-in home and one model home remain for sale at Worthington Park, a gated community in St. Johns County where new single-family homes are priced from the $270s.

Ginder said ready-to-move-in homes in all Mattamy Homes communities qualify for up to $8,000 in U.S. tax credit incentives. Mattamy Homes builds new single-family homes and town homes priced from the low $100s in nine communities in the Jacksonville area.

Dennis Ginder, division president for Mattamy Homes U.S. Group in Jacksonville, said Mattamy’s new town homes at Cornerstone at Watermill will range in size from 1,400 square feet of living space to 1,700 square feet.

Ginder said Mattamy Homes will start construction of two model town homes in the first quarter of 2010, and should start presales of town homes at Cornerstone at Watermill by March 1.

Mattamy Homes U.S. Group builds new single-family homes and town homes priced from the low $100,000s in eight communities in the Jacksonville area.