Real Estate Directory 2011 Cont'd

Avatar

Avatar has almost five decades of experience in selecting prime locations and creating communities with character, lifestyle and a special sense of place. The award-winning builder and developer offers communities with attractive, quality-built homes that stand the test of time.

Avatar‘s experience makes the value-added difference when it comes to carefully selecting outstanding community locations, creative planning, award-winning architectural design, quality construction and personal customer care. Avatar also offers a wide selection of attractive affordable and luxury homes that look good and live better. Avatar delivers quality-built homes at various price points throughout Central Florida that range from stylish single family residences to luxurious estate homes.

Every Avatar community and every floor plan is meticulously designed to provide maximum livability, lifestyle and comfort. In Central Florida, Avatar boasts two highly amenitized communities. Solivita is an active adult community that recently became the world’s first Younger Next Year Community, encouraging residents to adopt a lifestyle program based on the four basic pillars highlighted in The New York Times best-selling book Younger Next Year: Community, Exercise, Nutrition and Finance. Bellalago, a neighborhood in Poinciana, offers Tuscan- and Meditteranean-inspired single-family homes, as well as parks, nature preserves, waterfront properties, recreational facilities and an exclusive K–8 charter school. Both communities provide exceptional social and recreational amenities that cater to a wide variety of interests, offering everything from boating, biking, fishing and swimming to golf, tennis, and state-of-the-art health and fitness centers.

This synergy of creative planning and design has earned Avatar, its new homes and its master-planned communities more than 100 design, planning and marketing awards since 2001, including a pair of 2003 APEX Awards from Big Builder magazine for America’s Most Innovative Product Design and being America’s second Most Admired Builder.

In addition, Avatar has assembled a celebrated team of talented professionals — men and women recognized for their award-winning expertise in creative planning, architectural design, quality construction and personal customer care — who have been making new-home dreams come true for families for almost five decades. The developer employs craftsmen who have pooled their creative genius to fashion award-winning, master-planned residential communities that have a special sense of place and an energetic lifestyle.

Avatar puts the very best into everything it builds and develops, and it shows when one drives into the communities and walks through the attractive, furnished model homes. Residents immediately see and experience the difference.

395 Village Drive, Poinciana • 863-427-7000
www.avatarhomes.com

Musgrave Building & Restorations Inc.

1605-B E. Harwood St., Orlando • 407-412-6925
www.musgravebuilding.com

Ryan Homes is a national homebuilder that brings more than 60 years of experience to the Orlando area. Ryan Homes currently builds new townhomes and single-family homes, most with onsite amenities, such as community pools, clubhouses, parks and walking trails, in some of Orlando’s most desirable locations. Ryan Homes builds in 13 Eastern states, and 95 percent of buyers would recommend the builder. Unparalleled customer service, innovative award winning designs, quality construction, affordable prices and unique communities in prime locations set Ryan Homes apart in the homebuilding industry.

Every Ryan Home is inspected for quality, backed by a 10-year structural warranty, and 100 percent Energy Star-qualified for a lifetime of lower utility bills. Ryan Homes is also a recipient of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2011 Energy Star Partner of the Year Award. This award is granted to builders that demonstrate excellence and innovation in building and promoting Energy Star-qualified homes.

Ryan Homes offers buyers an opportunity to customize their brand-new homes with personalized finishes and features, giving buyers plenty of ways to express their style. Options range from stainless-steel appliance packages and granite countertops to hardwood and ceramic tile flooring, luxury owner’s suites and much more.

7800 Southland Blvd., Suite 102, Orlando • 407-850-4675
www.ryanhomes.com

Bill Silliman, founder of Silliman Homes, has been part of the homebuilding scene in Central Florida for more than three decades. He has built his reputation as a quality custom-home builder with a singular focus on the design and construction of luxury residences as half of Reiche-Silliman, one of Central Florida’s most celebrated custom builders.

Bill Silliman’s hands-on involvement in every stage of the process has resulted in homes built on time to customer specifications. In fact, his best endorsements come from satisfied homeowners in premier Dr. Phillips neighborhoods like Cypress Landing, Kensington Park, Vistamere and Mirabella at Vizcaya.

Silliman Homes is the direct result of Bill Silliman’s vision to build homes that are a cross between the efficiencies of a production home and a finely crafted custom home. Attractively priced, these homes come with the details, finish quality and upgraded standard features of a custom home. Silliman Homes’ entry in the 2011 Orlando Home Builders Associations Parade of Homes was awarded first prize in its category — Custom Homes $749,900 to $950,000.

Silliman Homes is currently building in the new lakefront community of Waterstone on Lake Butler and in The Gardens Neighborhood at Keene’s Pointe. Base prices start in the low $500s.

229 Pasadena Place, Orlando • 407-217-5959
www.sillimanhomes.com