New Look with Specialty Architectures for Specialty Markets—Yours (NAPSA)—Pro- & totype homes from the manufactured housing industry are turning heads in a numberofresidential housing 4, markets after an 7% industry leader recently debuted a series of specialty homes. The homes, | designed especially Champion recently introduced a number of new for various local designs,including “The Santa Fe,’ a Southwestern, specialty markets, stucco home. are quickly proving that factory-built homes can be just kets, it may very well be changing as distinctive as locally designed the way people see manufactured site-built homes in terms of their housing.” architecturalflavor. Champion’s Santa Fe, a model “By allowing individual markets from Chandler, Arizona, is a and their architectural traditions 1,200-1,600 sq. ft. home featuring to guide our homedesigns, we are a smooth Southwestern stucco taking action to meet the needs of exterior. The Trading Post, built more homebuyers all over the for the Tennessee market, resemcountry,” said Phil Surles, chief bles a rustic log home andis built operating officer for Champion with a full-length porch—an Enterprises, the world’s largest important feature for local firsthomebuilder. “These homes have a and second- time homebuyers. The Santa Fe and the Trading lot of local appeal for home buyers who had not previously even con- Post are currently available sidered a factory-built home.” through Champion Home Centers Examples of Champion’s new in Arizona and Tennessee, respecspecialty homes include, the tively, with base prices from “Windsor,” built for Southern $60,000. “These are interesting housing markets, the “Trading and affordable homes that are Post,” built for a rural, vacation making a statement to homebuyhome market and the “Santa Fe,” ers whodidn’t know that the term a home with a stucco exterior, ‘factory-built’ can mean ‘innovavery unique to the manufactured tive, attractive and high quality,” housing industry. said Surles. Built at Champion’s Lillington, Manufactured housing was North Carolina facility, Champion’s once known for its presence new Windsor model reproduces fea- almost exclusively in land-lease tures important to the local archi- communities, but quality and tectural tradition, including hip design advances have broughtfacdormers, a multi-gabled roof, tory-built homes into many tradiarched shingles and a recessed cen- tional neighborhoods. Installed on permanent foundater entry with glass panels on both sides of the front door. tions on private property, factoryThe 1,822 square foot, three built homes are financed no differbedroom, two bath homeis availently than site-built homes, with able to homebuyers through today’s low-rate mortgages, rather Champion Home Centers in North than with higher-rate personal Carolina, South Carolina and loans, needed to purchase the Virginia. homes without land. “The Windsor model has Many manufacturers, like increased customertraffic to home Champion, offer an assortment of centers in North Carolina by as financing programs through their much as 50 percent since its introretail outlets. The programs are duction,” said Surles. Together designed to help buyers find the with our prototypes in other mar- option that best fits their needs.
