Tomorrow marks the beginning of the 2011 Parade of Homes in Minnesota. This year the Parade of Homes will run through October 2nd and NIH Homes will be featuring one of our new homes on the tour.

NIH Homes at the Parade of Homes

The Aspen is a 2 story home with basement, 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms and over 4793 square feet of space! The Concord III also includes:

  • An open floor plan for entertaining
  • Enameled cabinets in the kitchen with some mixtures of stained woods
  • Enameled trimwork throughout the home
  • Iron ballusters
  • NIH energy Package

The Aspen is located in Spring Meadows of Plymouth at 15985 55 Ave. N Plymouth, MN

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Parade of Homes Fact Sheet

The Parade of Homes Fall Showcase is presented by Builders Association of the Twin Cities’ (BATC) members. The Fall tour runs September 10th through October 2nd, 2011. All Parade Homes(sm) are open Thursdays – Sundays 12-6pm.

  • The Parade of Homes Fall Showcase(sm) features 278 model homes and neighborhoods located in 74 cities across the extended Twin Cities metropolitan area.  There are 114 builders and developers participating in the event.
  • The 2011 Parade of Homes Fall Showcase includes two BATC Foundation Dream Homes (#128 and 167).  Visitors to those homes will be asked for a $5.00 donation to benefit the The BATC Foundation, the charitable arm of the Builders Association of the Twin Cities.
  • Dream Home donations to the BATC Foundation help build and remodel homes for families in need.  This year’s funds are helping a wounded Veteran, a local immigrant family and others. We’re also once again supporting the ReBuild Haiti project, sending local housing industry professionals to help build needed homes with and for displaced Haitians. This is the third trip for BATC members.
  • This Fall’s Guidebook features the personal stories of five local families who’ve recently bought new homes from Parade of Homes builders.  One of the homes (#73 in Lakeville) will be open on the tour.
  • This Fall’s Tour again features an Energy Efficient Home Tour in partnership with Xcel Energy. These 93 verified homes give people a chance to tour a wide variety of energy efficient homes during the tour. Ten of the Energy Tour homes are certified under the new Minnesota’s Green Path green build program.  Read more about MN Green Path in the Guidebook and in a separate Release.
  • The Parade of Homes online presence continues to be a hub for housing information in the Twin Cities. Last spring we launched a mobile website, and a Parade of Homes iPhone App. The website, paradeofhomes.org, still has all the search criteria you‘ve come to expect, like location, home style, school district and price. From our “Home Sense” links, Parade of Homes Blog and our neighborhood of social media sites, regional residents can find answers for all their housing questions.
  • All homes and their builders are featured in the Guidebook available free at metro Holiday StationStores on August 29th. All content is also available online at paradeofhomes.org, both in a searchable database and an e-magazine.
  • The most expensive Parade Home, and one of the Dream Homes, is priced at $2,575,500 and built by Smuckler Custom Builders, Inc. in Edina. The least expensive Parade Home is a association-maintained attached home priced at $129,900 built by Ashford Construction Co., Inc. in Andover.
  • The homes are scattered across a broad spectrum of prices.  Four are priced below $150,000 (down one from last spring) and 19 below $200,000 (down eleven from last spring).  A total of 190 homes are priced below $500,000, which represents 70 percent of the entries. There are 34 homes priced from $500,000 to $599,999 (up 3 from last spring); 22 from $600,000 to $699,999 (down four from last spring). A total of 12 homes are priced over $1,000,000, with two of those priced over $2,000,000.
  • With a total value of $129,901,124 in housing stock on tour, there are 747,068 finished square feet with 983 bedrooms and 879 bathrooms open to tour in the 2011 Parade of Homes Fall Showcase.
  • A total of seven of the 74 cities represented within the region have 10 or more homes open for viewing this fall, they are: Blaine: 26, Maple Grove: 19, Woodbury: 18, Chanhassen: 14,  Plymouth: 21, Lakeville: 12, Savage 14.