Edgar Montiel, owner of Palo Verde Homes, stood Wednesday in front of a model home on the 13400 block of Halifax in far East El Paso County. Palo Verde will have three homes, including the 148,450 home to the left of Montiel, on the Treasure Tour of Homes, which begins Friday. It's being held by the El Paso Association of Builders to stimulate sagging new home sales. (PHOTO COURTESY OF PALO VERDE HOMES)

Seventeen El Paso home builders will showcase more than 40 of their homes in the next 10 days during the Treasure Tour of Homes in hopes of revving up sagging new home sales.

"This has been a tough year," said Ray Adauto, executive vice president of the El Paso Association of Builders, the local home builders group, which organized the homes' tour.

Tightened loan requirements, rising new-construction costs, and no more economic stimulus from the now-completed Fort Bliss expansion have combined to make new homes a tougher sell than in some past years, he said.

The free, self-guided Treasure Tour of Homes, which begins Friday and runs through Nov. 2, is aimed at stimulating the new home market by giving potential buyers a chance to see a variety of homes throughout the El Paso area and provides chances to win a list of prizes, Adauto said.

Financing a new home can be even more difficult than financing a resale, or used, home because rising permitting and construction costs have new home prices rising, Adauto noted.

The median, or market midpoint price, for a new, El Paso home in the first nine months of the year was $167,275, and $124,000 for a resale home, according to data from the Greater El Paso Association of Realtors.

The number of resale homes sold in El Paso County in the first nine months of the year increased 10.3 percent from a year ago to 3,176, the Realtors' data show.

The Realtors association only gets reports for a fraction of new home sales in El Paso County. Its partial data show new home sales declined 5.8 percent in the first nine months of the year compared to a year ago to 1,362 sales.

The El Paso home builders group does not report new home sales data. But Adauto said the number of building permits issued in El Paso city limits is down 18 to 20 percent so far this year.

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Whitestone Builders, a Houston based builder of custom luxury homes today announced that it was the winner of multiple awards from the Greater Houston Builders Association (GHBA). Founded in 1941, GHBA is reportedly the largest home builders association in Texas and the fourth largest in the nation.

Whitestone Builders was the winner of three categories: Custom Home Design, Custom Home Kitchen, and Custom Home Elevation; and was a finalist for Custom Home Bath and for an additional submission in Custom Home Elevation. Each award was in the category for custom homes priced between $500K and $1.0MM, which is the target sector for Whitestone Builders.

GHBA has long held the annual PRISM (Professional Results in Sales & Marketing) competition which uses an independent panel of industry specialists who are chosen from across the nation to conduct the judging. Each year, GHBA members can submit their entries to selected categories and the panel judges the entries. This years winners were revealed during a black tie ceremony held on October 4th at Houstons Royal Sonesta Hotel.

Managing his own construction crew as a teenager and then earning a degree in Construction Management, Whitestone Builders President, David Gordon, has always had a deep passion for the building industry. Regarding the panels selection of Whitestone Builders as an award recipient, Gordon said I am thrilled to have won awards in multiple categories. Whitestone Builders was founded on the premise that we would be able to set a new standard for quality workmanship in luxury custom home building. The competition this year was extremely tough and we are humbled to have excelled in such a strong field.

As a veteran builder of custom luxury homes in Houstons premier neighborhoods, Whitestone Builders partners with some of the best architects and interior designers in the region. The company has established a reputation among those in the industry, including realtors, for exceptionally high quality craftsmanship, exquisite carpentry and the meticulous processes that are essential during a building project.

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Stone Acorn Builders LP, a member of the prestigious Southern Living Custom Builder Program, will debut Houstons Southern Living Home for the Holidays Showcase in West University Place at 2718 Talbott, 77005.

The home will be open for tours on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 1-2 and Veterans Day Weekend, Nov. 8-9. Proceeds from the $10 admission benefit Operation FINALLY HOME, a non-profit that provides mortgage-free homes for wounded and disabled veterans.

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A wall of bi-fold doors off the family room transition living to the outdoors and onto a deep back porch floored in grey travertine. The Southern-style porch is fashioned with a limestone wood-burning fireplace, benches and grillers summer kitchen with automated phantom screens that beckon you to bask in an evening breeze.

The homes privacy and personality continue upstairs with a master suite plus three more spacious bedrooms, a game room, and a comfortable laundry room with ample storage and a large linen closet. Built-ins are incorporated into every room with special features such as window reading benches, bookshelves and display cabinets to show off prized collectibles.

The master suite offers a palatial bathroom in neutral tones with his and her sinks, tub alcove featuring embossed tile and a large Carrera tile spa shower. The sweeping walk-in closet surrounds an island counter and convenient bench seating. The dressing area has a window seat with amble lighting, multi-storage, and lighted glass cabinets. Glistening marble is repeated on bath counters, wainscot and spa shower as a cool counterpoint to the tongue and groove paneled ceilings in the suite, where time and tension disappear.

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