Three opportunities remain to purchase at The Meadows in Peterborough

It's been a great fall at The Meadows, the quaint village, adult-oriented community in Peterborough. Sales have been strong and the community is about to welcome its two newest residents this week.

George will be getting his key this week while Sonja will be moving in on Thursday. Congratulation to both of them!

With their purchases at The Meadows only three opportunities remain to purchase in the community.

It's not a big surprise that these homes have been moving quickly. The Meadows is a unique chance to retire in a community that offers security and support while allowing you to maintain your independent lifestyle and privacy.

Independence is paramount as all residents of The Meadows have their own full garages, driveways and basements. Mail is delivered directly to the homes while garbage is picked up from each home as well. To top it all off, each home features a walk out basement that opens into some idyllic green space.

The Meadows is also an ideal place for single women looking for security and support in a community. With its social committee dedicated to planning festive gatherings all year round, residents will never be wanting for entertainment. If you want to get a real sense of the welcoming atmosphere present at The Meadows, the community will be celebrating Oktoberfest this weekend. Give Rick Phillips of Parkview Homes a call at 705 741 1004 if you want to take part in the festivities and tour the community.

Residents of The Meadows will also be able to play a round at the Kawartha Golf and Country Club, take advantage of an array of shopping and dining options, walk over to a Wal-Mart, which just celebrated its grand opening on Lansdowne Street, the main shopping strip in Peterborough. It’s also only a three minute drive to a state-of-the-art medical centre.

With the community about to close-out, the builder has reduced prices by up to $24,000 and is now offering free air conditioning and a free garage door opener. Prices are as low as $259,990 (HST included), so these three affordable opportunities won't be sitting still for long.

Call Rick Phillips at 705 741 1004 (office) or 705 868 6441 (cell) to arrange a personal tour. You can also contact Rick by email at rphillips@parkviewhomes.ca. Visit the website by clicking here!

We have 6 great reasons to choose a brand new Parkview Home over a resale!

1.  You design it! When you buy a resale home, you are purchasing a home that someone else crafted to suit their lifestyle. When you build a new Parkview home, you will be able to choose exactly what you want and where you want it so you can move in and not have to touch a thing.

2.  Everyone has new neighbours! Moving into a new Parkview community, everyone is meeting each other for the first time. There won't be any pre-established social circles to work your way into and you will be discovering new things about your neighborhood at the same time everyone else does.

3. Resale! Life happens. You might have to relocate or you make a lifestyle change a couple of years after you move in. The good news is that newer homes are more attractive to prospective homebuyers and generally sell more quickly.

4. Competitively priced!  People are often pleasantly surprised when visiting our model homes that new home prices are generally very comparable to the used home market.  

5.  Modern home designs!  Small closets, no en suite, dingy crawl space basements, small closed-in living spaces and carpet everywhere? The hallmarks of an older home are not for today's homebuyer! The modern lifestyle is drastically different from what it was even ten years ago and resale homes often lack the oomph and space to satisfy. Today's homebuyer wants a bright kitchen/breakfast area open to a large great room with spacious vaulted ceilings. Soaker tubs and separate tiled showers in the master en suite and walk-in closets are now considered standard features for many modern home designs. And you’ll find all of these at Parkview!

6.  Show me the savings!  New homes from Parkview save money with the latest in construction technology and green building techniques. Energy efficient windows and furnaces, spray foam insulation, heat recovery ventilation systems, the list of quality features included in a new home is extensive!    These features are often very costly to retrofit a resale home with if it wasn't initially built to these standards.

For more information please contact your new home expert, Paul Davidson at 705-748-4665

Goodbye Summer

Hard to believe that summer is already coming to an end!

 It seems like the summer vacation is so much shorter now than it used to be. Though the days flew by far too quickly, they were most definitely packed solid with countless hours of quality time, fun and memories that will last forever.

At the end of summer you look back on the swimming, hiking, road hockey, camping, cottaging, kayaking, badminton, sprinkler fun, biking, beach days, traveling, and then count the number of months until you can do it all over again!

 If you’re like me, you end the summer with more amazing photographs than you know what to do with. The weather we had this summer was quite incredible…so many warm beautiful summer days and evenings, making it ideal to enjoy summer in Ontario.

The moment the kids are back in school, it’s suddenly time to buckle down and think about organizing your house, and your life, cleaning and tending to all of the things you didn’t get to while you were off enjoying summer.

As much as we don’t want to, it is now time to prepare for the next season ahead….Fall!

See our handy fall maintenance checklist for great tips on preparing your home for fall, both inside and out.

By: Susan Fenn

Elton John Coming to the Peterborough Memorial Centre Sept. 8th

Here’s What Elton Wants

When Elton John arrives in Peterborough for his concert on Saturday, he’ll bring along a contract that informs the Memorial Centre exactly how he wants to be treated, what he wants to drink and how many people will need to fit in the dressing room.

That would be ten.

That contract is called a rider, and everyone who plays the Memorial centre has some version of it. For as big a star as Elton John is, his rider is pretty tame but quite particular:

Here are some of his conditions and concerns:

·     Professional rolling clothes racks in both the band’s and female singers’ dressing rooms.

·     Green plants of varying heights. No plastic allowed.

·     He requires a large live palm and ficus trees and some small and medium green plants.

·     In Elton John’s dressing room, there will be banquet tables with linen table cloths with skirting.

·     He wants table lamps with three-way or 100-watt bulbs. Guess those over-60 eyes want lots of illumination on anything he’ll be reading.

·     He also requires a professional rolling clothes rack and full-length mirror.

·     He also wants five vases with red roses (numbering 9 to 16), two vases with white roses (numbering 9 to 16), and there should be only rose heads, no leaves. And stems must be cut to touch the bottom of the vases and they are to be held in place by clear glass stones.

·     He needs a telephone line with international access and a television with sports channels available.

·     In the wardrobe work room, there will be four gallons of distilled water, a clothes steamer and more clothing racks. Elton is known for his stage presence and snappy wardrobe, so it’s understandable he’d want to make sure he’s wrinkle-free when he hits the stage.

·     Want to drink what Elton and the crew are drinking? Then stock up on San Pellegrino water, Evian water, Diet Coke (must be in cans), Diet 7UP or Diet Sprite, fresh-squeezed orange juice, 2 percent milk and assortment of teas, coffee, sugar and uncut fresh lemons.

·     We have no clue what the man eats. He travels with his own catering service.

We hope you found some of Elton John's requests interesting!  The show on Saturday, September 8th, is SOLD OUT!  Want more information?  Visit the Peterborough Memorial Centre website here.

Parkview Homes Launches New Website

We are very excited to announce that after months of dedication and hard work by our marketing team… we have a NEW website! At points we thought this day was never going to come and now that it has we are over the moon with excitement!

When we sat down to decide what our new website was going to look like, we focused on you, our future buyer. What would you want to see and how would you like to be able to use our website? What we heard back was "interactive and easy to use".

So we created our new website to be user friendly with easy to find tabs, headings and categories. As well, we wanted to make sure you could find all the information you require with a new “Search for your new dream home” section, informative community pages as well as a virtual tour section. We can now bring you into our fabulous homes and communities (virtually speaking) before you have visited one of our breathtaking, professionally decorated model homes!

So what are you waiting for … have you visited parkviewhomes.ca yet?

It's easy as 1-2-3!

1.     Click here to go to www.parkviewhomes.ca

2.     Enter your search criteria to find a selection of homes that match with what you are looking for.

3.     Find your desired community and contact a New Home Specialist to assist you in finding your new dream home!

For tips on using our new site or if you have any questions about our homes, contact one of our New Home Specialists (found on our “contact us” page).

Send us an email at info@parkviewhomes.ca to let us know your feedback on our new website…we’d love to hear from you!

Susan Fenn

Website team Coordinator

What's New at Parkview Homes?

Parkview Homes welcomes a new position of in-house Marketing Specialist to the group!

Recently we've added team member, Alyssa Green, to fill the position of in-house Marketing Specialist.  Alyssa is responsible for creating all new ads, brochures, and marketing collateral for Parkview Homes.  If you have noticed a fresh change in the newspaper ads as of late, this would account for the new look Alyssa has brought to the marketing department.  With an Advance Diploma in Graphic Design from Georgian College, Alyssa brings knowledge and enthusiasm to our working team.  The staff at Parkview Homes is very excited to have Alyssa on board and looks forward to seeing her fresh, new ideas!

A note from Alyssa:

“I am excited to be the newest member of the Parkview Homes team. It was very exciting for me to be able to move back to my hometown of Peterborough and find a great job in the Graphic Design field. I look forward to working with everyone at Parkview, sharing my ideas, and creating great new designs!”

Learn more about the Parkview Homes staff here. 

The Schoelers at Their Meadows Home

"We moved to the Parkview Meadows in March of 2011. We like our
home very much for the good neighborhood and the location for shopping.
The neighbors are very friendly and we like living here."

Leony and Peter Schoeler

*For more information on living at The Meadows, visit us here*