John Pope Newcastle Homes Founded: 2006 Price Range: From $250’s to 1.5 Million Areas Served: Corpus Christi Bay Side; Padre Island; Port Aransas Construction Type: Residential Newcastle Homes is an elite custom builder with a reputation for building environmentally friendly homes with remarkably impressive Energy Rating Index scores—a testament to their superior energy efficiency performance.
Imagine standing in your kitchen, either cooking dinner or checking on what’s for dinner. Your children are playing in the family room in front of you while your spouse is working at a computer station. The television in the living area is showing the evening news as you grab a cool drink from the refrigerator.
There isn’t one contractor who will say their home is not energy efficient. Every builder will say his or her home is energy efficient—but compared to what? The following is a guide for homebuyers to help them identify whether or not the home they are planning to buy is—or will be built—as a high-performance energy
The New Year is a great time to set goals for improving your life. Whether the goal is to lose weight, to stop smoking, or to start a new career, it’s the season to set positive intentions and turn last year’s “would have, should have, could have” to “Yes! This year, I am going to!”
There is nothing like walking into a freshly painted and decorated new home that is up for sale, and picturing ourselves coming home. We look around: do we feel comfortable here? Do we like the style? Do we like the layout? Do we like the décor? Every time we walk into another new home for