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Buying a newly constructed home is exciting, but there are a lot of different options. Finding the right home style is important, whether it’s a custom-built house on a plot of land you just bought or a move-in ready home in a brand-new, cookie-cutter neighborhood.

Tract, spec, and custom homes have their differences, and understanding these differences can better inform your homebuying decision.

“Understanding the differences in home type is as essential as understanding your true costs, from monthly mortgage payments to insurance to electric bills. Home type needs to be matched to your preferences and budget with a long-term perspective,” says Megan Fox at Compass.

Each type of home might fit better with a certain type of buyer. Which build you choose ultimately comes down to buyer preference, budget, and stage of life. Here are some things to know about the main types of new-home construction.

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Chelsea DeBoer might be best known for starring on “Teen Mom 2,” but now this married mother of four is all grown up—and gaining fame as a designer on her HGTV breakout hit, “Down Home Fab.”

On this new series (recently renewed for a second season), Chelsea and her husband, Cole, renovate homes around Sioux Falls, SD, using a unique style Chelsea describes as “South Dakota glam.”

It’s lots of cowhides, black paint, and even skull-patterned wallpaper. Yet her offbeat ideas often work—or at least, her clients seem pleased with the results.

Curious to hear more about how she’s shaking up the design world, we chatted with Chelsea about how she got started down the home renovation path and what she’s learned along the way.

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Looking to put down roots in a new city, a naval officer and his husband considered various purchase plans after their rental apartment became too expensive. Here were their options.

Learn how this Charleston, South Carolina, broker puts his own unique stamp on family tradition at William Means Real Estate.

Focus on creating high-quality pieces that resonate with your target audience and meet their evolving needs. With the right approach, you can stay ahead of the curve in the age of AI-powered search engines.

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With the promise of warm weather on the horizon, our thoughts naturally go to the great outdoors—and the day when we can soon get our hands dirty in the garden.

If you’re as excited about exercising your green thumb as we are, then you’ll be interested to learn that some of 2023’s biggest gardening trends are anything but ordinary. In fact, if you’re inspired by the idea of experimenting with color and texture in your outdoor space, we have quite a lineup for you. While some of these trends reflect major pop culture moments (“Bridgerton,” anyone?), others are a response to important issues, including climate change and growing food costs.

Ready to turn over a new leaf in your yard? Read on.

1. Immersive gardens

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If you’re into urban-chic style, you’ll go crazy for this $7 million residence-gallery-event space property in the fast-beating heart of downtown Los Angeles.

It’s not exactly your stereotypical, lushly landscaped, luxury L.A. home, though.

In fact, the space is mostly surround by warehouses, parking lots, and rail yards.

But it does have that gritty, cool, industrial vibe that makes most downtown dwellers feel right at home. Plus, it’s adjacent to the trendy artist community known as the Brewery, which anchors the downtown L.A. arts scene.

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A cute, Cape-style home in Yorktown Heights, NY, is the oldest property to hit the market this week on Realtor.com®.

The cozy house features a Dutch door, an original fireplace, and a first-floor primary suite with a claw-foot tub. Modernizations include an updated kitchen with soapstone countertops and a restored farmhouse sink.

Other vintage dwellings to hit the market this week include an equestrian farmhouse in New Jersey, an affordable home with a brick silo in Connecticut, and a stone farmhouse in Pennsylvania.

Scroll down for a full look at this week’s 10 oldest homes.

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We get it. Finally landing your own home and putting a personal stamp on the decor is a big thrill.

But in the heat of the excitement, some younger buyers might do well to slow down and think things through a bit. Otherwise, the situation can quickly devolve to “bye-bye, charm; hello, boring” factory finishes and gallons of greige paint.

Of course, buying a home is a big, expensive deal. And there might not be enough money left for a complete and thoughtful renovation. But that doesn’t have to spell cringeworthy results.

So if you’re about to pull the trigger on a home remodel, be warned that diving headfirst into aggressive demos and trendy designs can be risky. Here are some common mistakes new homeowners make when renovating their spaces.

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On “Fixer to Fabulous,” Dave and Jenny Marrs are used to giving homes a bit more character—but what if the house already has too much character?

In the episode “Eccentric House to Modern Home,” the Marrses never suspect anything is off kilter based on the home’s exterior.

“I feel like we’re in Europe,” says Jenny as she and Dave walk up the lengthy front path. “The landscaping’s nice, the brick’s nice, the stone’s nice. I’m not doing anything to the outside of this house. It’s beautiful.”

But once she steps through the front door, her jaw drops.

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A decade of under-building has led to a shortfall of 6.5 million single-family homes in the U.S., according to a new report released Wednesday.

Realtor.com looked at household formation, housing starts, and home sales, and found that given how many households were formed between 2012 and 2022, the U.S. is short of 6.5 million single-family homes.

But that gap diminishes somewhat if households opted to live in multi-family construction, which has boomed. Including multi-family homes, the gap in housing units in the U.S. falls to 2.3 million homes.

Yet most of those multi-family units won’t necessarily provide a path to homeownership, said Hannah Jones, an economic analyst at Realtor.com.