In this month’s New Homes Magazine, writer Joel Hoglund hits the road to check out vacation towns within two hours of the city, from Miller Beach, Ind. to South Haven, Mich.:
New homes are available in a wide variety of styles and price ranges in these vacation spots, from the low $100s to $1 million-plus, and building in this market still appears robust. At a time when investors have been backing out of the residential real estate market, vacation-home sales rose to a record 1.07 million in 2006, up 4.7 percent from 2005, a trend evident on my journey. Billboards touting vacation homes for sale are ubiquitous. In New Buffalo, Mich. alone, I counted more than a dozen developments of vacation homes looking to lure buyers from the opposite shore.
The towns where these projects are located follow some of the same formulas (beach, bistro, ice cream, trinkets, potpourri…), but they also have distinct personalities, which I’m determined to discover.
Read more at New Homes Magazine online.