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Alon Estates Offers Luxury, Location and Wooded Home Sites

Toll Brothers Alon Estates FoyerAlon Estates offers a rare opportunity to build your dream home in an upscale gated community in north central San Antonio within Loop 1604. Alon Estates offers beautiful wooded home sites and greenbelt lots, offering a secluded park like atmosphere for its residents.

Shopping, dining and recreation are all within walking distance, including HEB and Starbucks at Alon Town Shopping Center and many other fine retailers and conveniences close by.

Also within walking distance of the community are the Sheldon Vex Theatre, the Jewish Community Center and the 311 acre Phil Hardberger Park which features a 1.5 acre dog park, a playground, basketball courts and walking and bike trails. Alon Estates is also convenient to world class medical facilities at the South Texas Medical Center and is within easy access to major highways such as Loop 410, IH10, 1604 and 281.

At Alon Estates homes are available from three of San Antonio’s most prestigious and reputable builders, Toll Brothers, Sitterle and Rialto Homes.

Toll Brothers homes at Alon Estates feature magnificent kitchens, elegant bathrooms and sumptuous baths. Some of the outstanding features included as standard include stainless steel KitchenAid® appliances including range, microwave and dishwasher, granite countertops, tile backsplashes and 42” cabinets. The elegant master bathrooms include as standard a soaker tub, separate shower and his and her vanities with granite countertops and under mount sinks.

The Toll Brothers Homes at Alon Estates are the “Toll Green environmentally friendly product”, featuring high efficiency 14 SEER air conditioning units, radiant barrier sheathing in the attic and Low-E vinyl windows. Available in a wide choice of architectural styles including traditional, Mission, Mediterranean and Tuscan with floor plans ranging from 2243 square feet to 4225 square feet.

Sitterle Homes at Alon Estates feature award winning floor plans with an abundance of elevations and structural options, including dramatic high ceilings, luxurious foyers, architectural niches, and arches, magnificent kitchens and elegant bathrooms. Some of the outstanding features included as standard in Sitterle Homes at Alon Estates include granite countertops, 42” upper cabinets, tile backsplash and stainless steel Whirlpool appliances in the kitchen. Sitterle Homes at Alon Estates are High Performance Homes energy efficient homes offering energy savings with TRANE® 15 SEER air conditioning units, open-cell foam insulation, R-6 duct work, and Vinyl Low-E windows.

At Alon Estates Rialto Homes offers their Executive Series and Platinum Series of “Mediterranean-Tuscan” elevations, with exceptional architectural features that include courtyards, rotundas, spiral staircases with wrought iron balustrades, side entry garages and 3 car garages. A selection of notable features that are standard in both the Executive and Platinum series of Rialto Homes at Alon Estates include gourmet kitchens with granite counter tops, ceramic tile backsplash, 42” cabinets, 36” stainless steel gas cook tops with five burners, two 30” built in double ovens with a true convection oven and a built in microwave.  Also standard are luxurious master baths with granite countertops, under mount sinks, a 42” jetted tub, a separate shower and separate enclosed water closets.

Rialto Homes at Alon Estates are Energy Star certified and feature energy saving features such as Carrier SEER 14 A/C units, with R-6 insulated flex ducts, Vinyl Low-E windows, a tankless water heater for endless hot water (per plan) and radiant barrier roof decking. Rialto Homes offers a wide selection of elegant floor plans on 45’ and 55’ wide lots, ranging from 2358 square feet to just over 3900 square feet.

If you would like more information about this community, homes available to buy now or how to build the home of your dreams in Alon Estates, contact Trudy Edwards of KELLER WILLIAMS Realty Heritage at truesarealestate@gmail.com or (210) 595-9801.

Prospect Creek at Kinder Ranch Offers Luxury and Energy Efficiency

Prospect Creek at Kinder Ranch

Sitterle Homes is building High Performance new homes in Prospect Creek at Kinder Ranch, San Antonio

 

Kinder Ranch is a master planned community in the foothills of the Texas Hill Country. Located north of San Antonio, off of State Highway 281 and Borgfield Road, this gated community currently includes Willis Ranch, Prospect Creek and Prospect Creek Estates.When complete, the community will have a Junior Olympic swimming pool, a playground, sports court, walking trails and a soccer field. The community is in the Comal County Independent School District and is currently served by Kinder Ranch Elementary School, Spring Branch Middle School and Smithson Valley High School. A middle school and high school are both planned for construction within the community.

Sitterle Homes in Prospect Creek at Kinder Ranch – Sitterle Homes, is currently building its luxurious, Vintage Series homes in Prospect Creek at Kinder Ranch on 55’ or 65’ wide lots with floor plans ranging from 1852 square feet to just over 3400 square feet with prices starting at $230,000.
In addition to elegant architecture, quality materials and craftsmanship, Sitterle’s High Performance Homes offer many energy efficiency features such as open cell sprayed foam insulation in the attic space, a TRANE 15 SEER rate Air Conditioner, a High Efficiency gas furnace and Low-E windows.

David Weekley Homes in Prospect Creek at Kinder Ranch – Energy efficiency is also a key feature of David Weekley’s EnergySaver Homes at Prospect Creek at Kinder Ranch. Incorporating advanced framing techniques to create R-19 insulated exterior walls, R-38 and R-22 batt insulation in the ceiling, with a TRANE 16 SEER and natural gas furnace and LoE windows, all David Weekley Homes at Prospect Creek at Kinder Ranch will be Energy Star® certified and receive a HERS® Index rating for estimated energy usage.

David Weekley is currently offering a wide selection of one story and two story homes at Prospect Creek at Kinder Ranch, with floor plans from 1785 to just over 3000 square feet priced from the $230,000s.


Both David Weekley and Sitterle homes offer floor plans that can be customized with your selection of desired features including media room, children’s retreat, sunroom and 3 car garages.

If you are looking to build or buy an energy efficient new home in the San Antonio area, and would like more information about San Antonio communities and the home buying process, contact Trudy Edwards, for additional home buyer resources.

Energy Efficient New Homes at Triana

Hill country views, wooded home sites, acres of greenbelts and wildlife preserves and a superb selection of energy efficient homes await homebuyers at Triana, a new home community located in Helotes, off Bandera Road, about 4.5 miles west of Charles Anderson Loop 1604.

At Triana home buyers have the choice of 55’, 65’ or 80’ lots. Many of the lots in the community also back onto greenbelt land, offering owners additional privacy and views of mature trees behind the home.

Homes in Triana are being built by three of San Antonio’s leading green home builders, David Weekley Homes, Sitterle Homes and Ryland Homes.

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David Weekley is building its EnergySaver™ Homes on 55’ and 65’ wide lots at Triana. These homes average a 65 on the HERS index. The HERS Index s a scoring system that compares the relative energy efficiency of different homes. The lower a home’s HERS index, the more energy efficient it is. David Weekley Homes was recently named as the leading green home builder in San Antonio by the San Antonio Business Journal, based on the number of green homes built in 2011.

David Weekley Homes and Ryland Homes are offering energy usage guarantees to buyers of their new homes at Triana. Based on analysis of construction and building envelope leakage the home’s energy usage is estimated and guaranteed within the guidelines of the program.

Ryland Homes has been building energy efficient homes since 1999 by utilizing blown cellulose insulation in the walls, Low-E windows and high efficiency A/C units in combination with MERV filters. At Triana, Ryland and David Weekley homes are installing 16 SEER A/C units. Ryland Homes is building three series of homes at Triana – The Enclave on 55’ lots, The Executive on 65’ lots and The Estates series on 80’ lots.

Sitterle Homes is building its Heritage Series homes on 80’ lots at Triana. Sitterle Homes was named the third leading green home builder in San Antonio by the San Antonio Business Journal based on the number of green homes built in 2011. Sitterle Homes is building High Performance Homes at Triana, complete with include sprayed foam insulation in exterior walls and the attic, Tyvek house sheathing and 15 SEER Trane A/C units. The Sitterle Heritage series of homes offers granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances in the kitchen as standard and an abundance of elevations and structural options.

Triana is in the well regarded Northside Independent School District and is served by Garcia Middle School and O’Connor High School.  Younger residents will be able to attend the brand new Los Reyes Elementary school, located just outside the community’s gate, which opens in August 2012.

Residents at Triana will also be able to enjoy the community amenity center with a park, playground and swimming pool.

If you would like more information about this community, homes available to buy now or how to build the home of your dreams in Triana, contact Trudy Edwards of KELLER WILLIAMS Realty Heritage at truesarealestate@gmail.com or (210) 595-9801.