Pardee Homes' LivingSmart Brand Means Real World Green for Inland Empire Home Buyers in Southern California

    SAN DIEGO, CA, July 08, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Green is good, everyone agrees. And we all want to do our part to make a greener world. Most of us know something about making a smaller carbon footprint. Okay, great! But then what?

Pardee Homes has at least part of the answer with greener homes that got that way through the company's steady and steadfast progression in the field of green. It began with the pioneering of EnergyStar homes in 1998 and today delivers the multiple benefits of Pardee's far more comprehensive, and award-winning, LivingSmart program, which has now progressed even further, with the development of LivingSmart Homes, an exclusive collection of neighborhoods found in three Inland Empire master-planned communities--Canyon Hills in Lake Elsinore and Tournament Hills and Sundance, both located in Beaumont.

Sales, which began in February of this year, started off steady and gained momentum immediately, resulting in an amazing 73 homes sold in four months. LivingSmart Homes includes a total of eight floor plans, with four model homes available for viewing in Beaumont at Tournament Hills and four models at Canyon Hills in Lake Elsinore. "We've taken a different approach to homebuilding by offering an exciting array of choices in floor plan design, including both one- and two-story homes," said Matt Sauls, regional marketing director for Pardee Homes. "LivingSmart Homes have up to seven bedrooms, two to four baths, two and three-bay garages and approximately 1,132 to 3,099 square feet. Ingenious touches such as gourmet kitchens with slab granite and stainless steel appliances are complemented by a host of room options such as media niches, extra bedrooms, fireplaces, garage workshops, master bedroom decks and a four-bay garage in select plans."

Priced from the high $100,000s, the LivingSmart Homes have been designed to save the buyer money and offer versatile, sustainable new home choices that are brimming with a wealth of energy-saving, water-conserving, health-promoting and earth-friendly features.

All LivingSmart homes by Pardee include a number of standard energy-efficient features such as Energy Star rated dishwashers, low-E spectrally selective glass windows and radiant barrier roof sheathing. Buyers can also add such earth-friendly options as roof-integrated solar electric power systems, high- efficiency air filtration systems, tankless water heaters, WaterSmart controllers for landscape, reverse osmosis water system in the kitchen, and more. Energy efficiency in a LivingSmart home exceeds California's Title 24 criteria, already the toughest in the nation.

In addition to conserving natural resources, these and other LivingSmart features are eco-friendly, and help make green living easier than you think, according to Sauls. "You can reduce your family's carbon footprint simply by living in a new home built to our green standards," he said. "As just one example, we estimate our energy-efficient homes save more than 11 million pounds of greenhouse gases annually."

For more information visit www.pardeehomes.com or call (951) 244-9583 or (951) 769-0308. To visit Canyon Hills in Lake Elsinore, exit I-15 at Railroad Canyon Road and go east 2.5 miles to Canyon Hills Road, turn right and follow the signs. To visit Tournament Hills in Beaumont, exit I-10 at Oak Valley Parkway and go west, then follow the signs to the models. Sundance is located just north of I-10 at Highlands Springs Avenue and Eighth Street in Beaumont. Visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/livingsmarthomes.

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